For my fellow residents of La Mesa/Spring Valley CA, I point you towards some updates on the SR 94/125 project. Note the interactive map. Alas, it’s still not clear as to whether there will be an on-ramp to the 125-N from Spring St.
Monthly Archives: May 2001
More flowers
Some more nice wildflowers. These are growing at the back of my garden, near one of the peach trees.
I have no idea what these are. I’m still looking for a good on-line reference to wildflowers. Part of the problem is there’s so much variety in what will grow in one region or another.
Weblogs
Oh, it’s not been a good month for a lot of weblogs. First The Bradlands goes on “temporary hiatus” while “undergoing a major overhaul” (for the last two months now, uh-huh.) Then Cam Barrett also goes on “hiatus” for a “week or two” [make that a month] though a recent update implies that he’s got a life but will return eventually. My own Event Horizon is suffering the doldrums of DSL Hell. And now Greg Knauss’ An Entirely Other Day has gone away.
Son of Termite Shed Redux
Pressed flowers
Over the weekend, I went to an art show. One of the featured artists has done some work with dried and pressed flowers. While his style didn’t particularly appeal to me, the medium does. Some quick net exploration reveals that it’s not a particularly difficult medium to get started with– this article describes how to get started with items that almost anyone has available.
I have quite a few wildflowers in my garden. Some of them are truly wild, and some are from a couple of handfuls of wildflower seed mix that I threw out there in late January, when it all was barren and gloomy.
This particular batch has grown up among my raspberry bushes and the field of daisies.
A couple of random photos
Here is a recent photo of the garden. The daisies in the right and center foreground are my best crop so far. Believe it or not, that mass of flowers is only two plants, and a couple of months ago they lived in a pot on my sister’s patio. You can also see some of the tomatoes and eggplants in the left and center foreground. Corn is in the center of the photo.
Figs! Under ideal conditions, a fig tree bears two crops; one in the spring, and one in the late summer. The spring crop looks good. They are of normal size and are starting to ripen.
I suspect that in a couple of months I will be as sick of figs as I am of avocados.
The grapevines are doing well too, but I’m a little disappointed that they’re not growing much larger. My neighbor has some vines that are growing over his fence already. These were planted from two year old bare-root stock, so they ought to be a little bigger. No signs of any grapes yet.
