Sometimes… OK, often… I get discouraged with my progress on our garden. You see something every day, and it’s hard to notice changes. Luckily, I stumbled upon some pictures that I took of the place when we moved in. “Then” was 2005.

2005
2008

Back Lawn

Shade Garden

Pond Area

One thing about my old pictures is that [...]

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Hah! Made ya look!
Yesterday, I noticed that there were a few branches on my Rainier cherry with pretty nasty infestations of black aphids. I was standing there contemplating what to do about it when I noticed these ladybugs gettin’ it on. It wasn’t too much later that I saw a syrphid [...]

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