Month: June 2005

It looks so innocent

The ubiquitous bindweed — harmless and pretty along the edge of the road, a creeping, smothering, unstoppable terror in the garden. Photo by...

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Stocks

Old-fashioned stocks in my perennial garden. Yes, that’s dog hair hanging from the stalks. Photo by...

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Bad Hair Days

I suspect I don’t have much of a future as a professional sheep shearer. Tinkerbelle seems to have forgiven me. (Sweet feed is a great bribe!) I’ll trim around her face and even out her haircut in a few days. Right...

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Please let me stay!

This gentle rooster hatched last year. He’s the only single-combed chicken on the place. The rest of my full-sized chickens are pure Wyandotte of one color pattern or another, all with pea combs. I suspect the mother hen...

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