Southern Oregon Coast: Brookings and Harbor
The nearby towns of Brookings and Harbor, about 15 miles south of the cabin, provide any essentials you may need. We frequented the Fred Meyer for finger...
Southern Oregon Coast: The Cabin
This spot fell in the middle of the trip. Three wave-lulling nights on a crumbling hillside, coastal highway hideaway, tucked into trees and situated down...
Southern Oregon Coast, a Series
In this series of undetermined length nine posts (plus an Honorable Mention), I will share photos and anecdotes (as best as memory serves me) of a roadtrip I...
The Best Pollinator Year
I regularly switch out my raised vegetable beds to a cut-flower/pollinator garden, sometimes every other year, sometimes less regularly. 2019 was a standout...
Winter Containers, Part 2
I finished replanting the patio containers for winter. These containers are fully under the patio on the north side of the house and receive very little...
Winter Containers, Part 1
Inner Portland moved to USDA Hardiness Zone 9a recently and I’m putting it to the test. I’ve always called my front yard The Mediterranean because it faces...
Fall in Earnest
Fall is finally meaningfully here. Less than a month ago we had air quality alerts due to seven or eight wildfires in vicinity, and temperatures were still...
Behind the Berm
Last July (2021) I hired a local Portland landscape company to remove all the grass in my side yard and install a basalt stepping stone and river rock path...