To Mulch or Not…Too Mulch of a Good Thing.

My first house had siding of shiplap cypress. Great wood for building, tough for painting. I often wondered about those bags of cypress mulch at the garden center…seems it really is too much of a good thing…

It seems that in the past ten years or so cypress logging as an industry has taken off. In [...]

Why Is My Traffic Up?

Sometimes you are amazed at the serendipity of life…I discovered Felder Rushing a few years back while wandering the web. I started listening to the podcast of his weekly public radio program, The Gestalt Gardener, and keeping up with his travels. I even posted a link and his picture back in 2007 on my original [...]

If it’s Sunday Morning…It’s time for an update from Winedale.

Leon Hale’s weekly column is up at the Houston Chronicle…This section in the middle caught my mind’s eye and reminded me of my year living with my Grandparents back in the early 70’s.

When sprummer comes to the country, what arrives along with it is a lot of work to be done. A place like this, [...]