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Damselfly delight

Posted on by Ann Carranza

Like a kitty bringing home a lizard to its favored “owner” (disclaimer: no one really owns a cat) a tiny, predatory damselfly landed on my hand yesterday with a small flying creature in its mouth.  I raised my hand slowly to take a myopic look at the miniature loveliness only to see the struggling beastie [...]

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Romaine lettuce leaves, dying Daphne, and tacos.

Posted on by Ann Carranza

  I just picked the first small, green leaves of our fall/winter Romaine lettuce.  I worried that the hard frosts we’ve been having would burn it, but it is much hardier than I expected.  We had enough to put in our tacos, tonight. Leonel and I filled five heavy-duty black plastic garbage bags with leaves, [...]

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