I was hopeful this morning because ammonia was dropping but as expected, my window tank is going thru a mini-cycle. Seems to be progressing ...

My cories were spawning again yesterday. Later I saw an egg stuck to the glass- but it was exposed for over half an hour to air so I don...

It is a beautiful thing. I did not know my clematis had opened a late flower until today. There is only one so far and wow, it is stunning...

It's nice to have a decent school of fish in here again. They seem to have figured out most of their disagreements- I don't see chas...

in my ten gallon. It's been almost a month. I actually saw a betta I liked last time I was at the pet store, but I was looking very cl...

This morning serpae tetras in one tank and cory catfish in the other, were spawning. I noticed yesterday that the cories looked a bit more a...

Sweet potato vine has grown so much I now have to periodically trim foliage off, because it is blocking the light that gets into the tank. ...

Yesterday I found the ants had set up housekeeping inside my mailbox . I went to get the mail, and there was a lumpy pale mass with black mo...

I've started bringing my mini geranium and stevia inside for the night, to avoid chill. Cut back the stevia down to the lower foliage th...

Got a nice shot of the main aquarium, with all ten serpae tetras in view.

Nights have got a bit colder, so I have taken cuttings from my coleus and a few of the salvia, before night temperatures kill them outside. ...

I have been wanting this plant for years . I found one this morning in the supermarket. I would have been happy to pay the full price, bu...

The other day during heavy rain I was moving a few plant pots on the deck under the table, to avoid a beating. Found a small frog in my spea...

I was trying once again to get some pictures of Perry. They were coming out like this: Until I thought to offer him a single flake of f...

I rather like how the celosia patch looks around my mailbox, right now. Turns out the height is just right- they have gotten large enough th...

I noticed that of all my coleus plants, the ones in pots on my deck are leggy, unhappy and leaves going pale. I think too much sun. I cut th...

Checking up on them. I pruned my flowering crab apple tree in the front yard today- for the first time ever. Tired of getting hit in the fac...