4 AM. I'm awoken again, the second time this week, by a fairly close Hoo-hoo hoo-hoo Hooo Hooo. It's our night time visitor calling from the towering eucalyptus trees that are just on the other side of our backyard fence. I wonder if he or she is looking for a mate.
I seldom buy calendars because I receive so many free ones sent to me by various organizations. The one exception is the past few years I've been purchasing the annual Gardening Guide and Calendar issued by the UC Master Gardeners of Sacramento County.
When I moved into my new house, one year ago this February, I had no idea that we had a crape myrtle on the property! When I first moved to Suisun, I discovered that the larger streets are lined with this flowering tree.
Every year around this time I find myself exclaiming "It's getting dark out and it's not even 5 o'clock! I get up when it's dark, get home from work when it's dark, and it's too late to get into the garden! The shortening seems to happen so quickly.
The beginning of November I noticed something strange in my raised garden bed. At first, I thought perhaps it was an odd leaf blown in or a dried pod carried in by a bird or squirrel. But I had never seen anything quite like it. I cautiously touched it. The outer petal like structures felt rubbery.
