This is curly dock, but you’ve seen it before. It’s among the most common weeds we know. Sidewalks, roadsides, vacant fields. You may not know that it’s related to sorrel, the cu… more →
nightingale squaremsbaroque wrote 1 day ago: Day before yesterday something happened as I was on my way to work, which I now find haunts me when … more →
chrisfarnsworth wrote 3 days ago: Sewer monsters? Please. That’s last week’s horror story. This week, we’ve got two … more →
nightingalesquare wrote 5 days ago: This is curly dock, but you’ve seen it before. It’s among the most common weeds we k … more →
chrisfarnsworth wrote 1 week ago: For those who were kept awake nights, wondering what the hell that thing in a North Carolina sewer w … more →
nightingalesquare wrote 2 weeks ago: (click for larger image) This is the hillside where I spotted this nasturtium, trailing toward the … more →
Jacqueline Pearce wrote 2 weeks ago: I seem to be devoting more time to tweeting than to blogging lately. Perhaps because it’s so q … more →
nightingalesquare wrote 2 weeks ago: (click for larger image) Another bird, another flower. In my mind, it’s always going to be sp … more →
cheesybird wrote 2 weeks ago: One of the great things about bad birdwatching is that you can be completely lazy and still do it. B … more →
nightingalesquare wrote 3 weeks ago: (click for larger image) I could look up what kind of bird this is, perched in the lovely datura bra … more →
richfletch wrote 4 weeks ago: A few weeks ago, my brother told me that he’d been hearing a strange animal making a sound fro … more →
adamwelz wrote 1 month ago: Hi All went down to the Riverside nest (in Manhattan’s Upper West Side) this afternoon to chec … more →
nightingalesquare wrote 1 month ago: (click for larger image) Back in San Francisco, this time for just this drift of wild leaves, lit b … more →
mrbarham wrote 1 month ago: Sometimes its easy to forget that we are not alone in our cities. Most of the time when we think of … more →
thehippygardener wrote 1 month ago: And I’ve come up with a game plan. About a week ago we were under full attack from the littl … more →
nightingalesquare wrote 1 month ago: 1:15 p.m. The construction site next door. In a spirit of optimism, snuck in and cleared the tras … more →
thehippygardener wrote 1 month ago: Check out this crazy looking cocoon that we found on our tiny Nachez Crape Myrtle. I’ve never … more →
thehippygardener wrote 1 month ago: We’ve had so much wonderful rain down here in Central Florida the last couple of weeks. It mak … more →
nightingalesquare wrote 1 month ago: (click for larger image) Nasturtiums, growing wild on a hillside near Fort Mason. I grow … more →
nightingalesquare wrote 1 month ago: (click for larger image) I spent a breathtakingly lovely weekend in San Francisco for work last mont … more →