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Name that grass, part 2
Sat, 22 May 2004: Peter Veillieux of East Bay Wilds and landscape architect Paul Furman (www.edgehill.net) inform me that last week's mysterious annual grass was the dreaded foxtail brome (Bromus diandrus), so I ripped it all out.

Today, I'm going to mulch like crazy because the yard is starting to look all parched and weedy. This dry, windy Spring has not been kind to the plants, especially the annuals. I might even have to invest in a garden gnome or two to camouflage some of the really blighted areas.
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Name that Grass
Sun, 09 May 2004: I've decided to post some pictures of a mysterious feathery grass that appeared in the front yard this Spring and draped itself elegantly over the monkeyflowers, like a cloud of maribou descending on a host of merry chorines.

I must admit I'm becoming quite attached to it.
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Remember Mom
Sat, 08 May 2004: My mom's birthday is right before Mother's Day, so we were down in Houston a couple of weeks ago to see her.

The one thing I wanted to do was go downtown and see the new train that people keep plowing their cars into.
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Godzilla goes to Preschool
Sat, 03 Apr 2004: My nephew started preschool this week and came back with all kinds of crazy ideas.

He grabbed a back issue of Cat Fancy out of the magazine rack and decided to have story time with the cat.
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My Buds
Mon, 22 Mar 2004: I keep having to remind myself it's not Spring yet.

All kinds of stuff is budding in the garden, including my Ribes sanguineum ("wild currant"), which gets these long dangly flowers on it for just a few weeks.
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