November 02, 2018
Merry Christmas from Austin
A holiday show by Texas troubadour Robert Earl Keen, downtown sights, and a dizzying spin under the Zilker Christmas Tree …
Drive-By Gardens: Diamond path and gravity-defying live oaks
What caught my eye on a neighborhood stroll, from a diamond paver path to massive live oaks that defy gravity …
Christmastime blooms
Mild, blue-sky December days are a Texan’s reward for enduring summer. Here are the flowering plants I’m enjoying right now …
Read This: A Natural History of Empty Lots
A Natural History of Empty Lots is equal parts nature writing, memoir, and eco-criticism. It’s an Anthropocene love letter to nature …
Cadillac Ranch sunset
Cruising to Cadillac Ranch on a winter road trip through Amarillo, on fabled Route 66, under a beautiful sunset sky …
Trouble reading Digging? Try clearing your cache
December 12, 2024 A reader told me today that she was having difficulty reading Digging in the Safari browser. My blog posts were loading glitchy and jumpy, she said. I advised clearing the cache on her device. She did, and — presto! — the problem went away. So I want …
Texas interiors on the 2024 Lockhart Holiday Home Tour
The 2024 Lockhart Holiday Home Tour featured 7 beautifully decorated homes plus a luxury cabin rental complex …
Diagon Alley’s magical Christmas tribute to Harry Potter
I magicked myself to Austin’s Diagon Alley last weekend to see the Harry Potter display in their front yard in holiday Yule Ball mode …
Exploring the Gardens on Spring Creek in fall
At The Gardens on Spring Creek, origami sculptures by Kevin Box were on display amid prairie grasses and other undaunted plants …
Thankful for fall flowers, cool temps, not deer
I’m thankful for cooler, yet frost-free temps and the fullness of the autumn garden and the charismatic live oaks that shelter it …
Beyond the fairway, and finding Harvey Penick, at Austin Country Club
A tour of the landscaping at Austin Country Club, where we learned more about a distant relative, legendary golf instructor Harvey Penick …
Gardens at Denver’s Washington Park are going native
At Denver’s Washington Park, two gardens are being converted from thirsty annuals into waterwise, habitat-rich perennial gardens …
A collector’s garden of rare palms and cactus
Amber and Jason Schoneman of garden design biz Dwarf Palmetto Design nurture a fascination with palms, cactus, and other low-water plants …
Playing around at Fortlandia at the Wildflower Center
Each fall, Fortlandia brings a new set of forts to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center for kids (and adults) to play on …
