Garden Girl

Yes! YES!
BRING IT!

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green & white summertime

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thanks to spacialist Mr. Garden Girl

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Click the pic for more images of  the choked oak.

The house (now gone) that was next door had its front deck built around a live oak that then grew into the deck. When I got a dude from They Might Be Monkeys out to look at my trees, he spotted this & exclaimed that he wished he had a camera since he was doing a presentation on *the stupidest things done to trees*.
I offered to take some shots for him of this live oak. (Ever see the x rays of the guy who survived a railroad spike thru his head or some such? This reminds me of that. )

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All yesterday I was pleading with the clouds, “open up, let it go… slow at first please or it’ll all be wasted as run off…”
& lo, for once the contrarian CenTex weather god took pity on gardeners.
We sure could use more tho…
*looks up hopefully*.
I saw a cotton tail on my way to get the mail yesterday & we smelled a skunk last night. Where they are finding food, I don’t know, but the bunny looked sleek enough.
Bunnies & skunks & coyotes , oh my… & I wonder how long this little bit of quasi country will stay country.
They are already talking about a Central Market for Pflugerville (for those of you readers who don’t have Central Market yet– they are a competitor with Whole Foods). It’s a sure sign of the sooner rather than later gentrification of Pflugerville (soon to be the Pfluger neighborhood of NE Austin, I bet).
I have mixed feelings about this.
It’s unavoidable– the toll road, the cost of gas, the booming population of the CenTex corridor & the fact that Pflugerville is closer to Austin than Round Rock is, all just mean development.
& hey, I can’t bark too loudly since I’ll be at Central Market myself in future picking up whatever I didn’t get from my Greenling order that week.
Also, I still believe the more dense walkable neighborhoods connected to city hubs by public transit we have, the less energy we’ll use & the more undeveloped land outside of urban areas we can keep somewhat un-messed up– which is good for birds, bees & watersheds & so is good for us.
Still there’s something I’ll miss about what’s been preserved ’til now of Pflugerville’s unique character that makes it not Austin & certainly not urban.

Oh & speaking of public transit & human friendly cities, here’s two links that made me smile today:

http://www.carectomy.com/index.php/Train/All-Aboard-the-Train-that-Never-Stops

http://www.carectomy.com/index.php/Urban-Planning/Portlands-Depaving-Day

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Tags: gardengirl

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Congressman Earl Blumenauer is my kinda guy

Bicycle Friendly: Commuting with a Congressman : NPR

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Since I’ve made a commitment to myself to buy second hand whenever possible, if I must buy at all, this makes me very very happy. If you don’t know about *Savers* stores for second hand wearables & small appliances, you may wish to check out their site & see if there’s a *Savers* near you:

Welcome to Savers

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Jun1108yard 025.jpg, originally uploaded by TheHerbGirl.

buggy bug bug

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