On Valentine’s Day 2006 I hit publish for my very first weblog submit. Again then I noticed running a blog as a approach to doc my backyard by way of the seasons and to affix the web dialog about gardening in Austin.
Boy, was it ever!
I’ve been documenting my backyard(s) — and gardens throughout the nation, and past — for 17 years now. Seventeen years! I might have raised one other baby in that period of time.
I nonetheless get a lot enjoyment out of sharing about gardening and studying different gardeners’ posts on blogs and different social media. The web world has modified dramatically in these 17 years, however I’m nonetheless right here speaking about vegetation and gardens.
I’m grateful to you for coming to Digging to learn and interact about gardening with me. Thanks, readers! You make it a dialog.
And now that it’s a celebration, let’s see who else is attending. Deer, after all. I walked previous this crowd at a neighbor’s home one night.
It shortly grew to become a staring contest.
Yesterday I noticed just a little brown skink on the driveway. Nervous he’d get stepped on, I attempted to encourage him onto a department I picked up. Lastly although, I cupped my palms over him, and he leaped into my palms.
I carried him over to the island mattress, the place he promptly kamikazied into the leaf litter. What a cutie!
Winter and spring vie for dominance every February in Central Texas. The earliest bushes are already beginning to flower, and lots of vegetation are pushing up new progress. It’s additionally the month for ice storms and snowpocalypses. We’re nonetheless cleansing up right here. Just a few weeks, although, till we’re in full-on spring. Get pleasure from this final month with no mosquitoes!
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