An Open Letter to Our Mammalian Friends

August 10, 2015

...ol with the daytime raids on the fig tree even if it entertains our indoor cats. To the rats of Los Angeles: avocados do not mature on the tree. This is probably why you take a single bite and allow them to fall to the ground. You’ll never get guacamole this way. And can you please not drop half-eaten grapes all over our patio furniture. Not only does it create a mess but it leads to unseemly First World meltdowns, “My Martha Stewart patio set is...

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P-22 Festival Today!

Mr. Homegrown

October 27, 2018

Events

...Hey Angelinos–I’ll be in the Wild Yards Project booth with my friend David Newsom at today’s P-22 Festival. Drop by and celebrate wild yards and big cats!...

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Saturday Linkages: A Happy Yam New Year

Mr. Homegrown

January 4, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...Yam courtesy of Doug Harvey. Make yourself a rowboat in 2020 Sidney Barnsley architect and craftsman Alan Moore on William Blake’s contempt for Newton Are cats modernists? Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire Contrapoints on canceling Lawn out. Wildflowers in. “Act natural” pic.twitter.com/9rTkgM73te — Animal Memes (@AnimalMemer) December 29, 2019...

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Midnight in the Desert

Mr. Homegrown

October 25, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...o: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5KIRChve0 And Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLXPBGitdDg Bell’s show had an eeriness to it aided by the fact that he was broadcasting live from a remote compound in the Nevada desert in the middle of the night surrounded by his cats and ham radio gear. Bell’s show was the soundtrack of the American West’s vast deserts and forests, a landscape of secret government programs where the only sound is the m...

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When it’s time to remove a tree

Mrs. Homegrown

October 22, 2015

Back to the Garden, Garden Design, Gardening

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...the time comes to make changes in your garden. There’s nothing wrong with making changes–the trick is in how they’re made, and why. When you remove a plant and it’s the right thing to do, and it’s done properly, it feels good. Really good. Not just on an aesthetic or practical level, but on a gut level. You don’t miss the plant once its gone. The empty space is hardly noticeable. The garden feels more lively or, conversely, more peaceful. It’s as...

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