As The Great Egg Hunt Weekend approaches and I look forward to (and back on) photos of our wee area tykes running across perfectly manicured lawns snatching up brightly colored plastic eggs and I am reminded that the egg hunts of my childhood were very much…not that.
Commentary by Wayne Lee For me, getting old sucks. There is just no other way to put it. The older I get, the more my body begins to break down and cause me issues I never previously had to deal with. The list of medications…
With Easter just a hop, skip and a jump away, over the next two weeks All Things will celebrate Oregon’s bouncing bunnies.
Fun fact: Traditionally rabbits are called “bunnies”, but not all “rabbits” are rabbits, some rabbits are hares.
Triteleia – Triplet Lilies
Growing up in northern California I knew their flowers as Harvest Brodiaeas. I loved the tall stalks with an umbel of dancing flowers at the terminus. They look like an upside down, open umbrella with the trumpet shaped flowers at the end of each of the long petioles.
Whether moving uphill, downhill or sideways down a steep slope, with my feet firmly anchored to a suitable pair of skis with plenty of good snow under them, I’m just about as happy as anyone can expect to be in the wintertime.
This week’s crawly is a moth of a different color – rather several colors. Meet the omnivorous looper moth (Sabulodes aegrotata), we’ll call them “omni” for short.
If you are unfortunate enough to have Himalayan blackberry in your yard, you will thank me for this column – this goes double for female gardeners. Have I found a deal for you!
Everyone has a fish story to tell, and mine is uniquely original. I was living alone in a one-bedroom apartment on the shore of Clear Lake in California. Specifically, Lakeport, Calif. I had been hired as the sports editor for a three-section, bi-weekly newspaper, the Lake County Record-Bee and I was responsible for the eight-page sports section.
We hope you kept some pinecones after gathering them for our winter holiday cone-craft extravaganza, because this week we’ve got some fun-tastic Easter Cone-crafting ideas for you.