Spring flowers at my neighbours garden in 2009 or 2010 when my godparents lived there. I always loved the contrasting colours and depth from shooting at such a low angle.
"Turf Replacement- Removing grass is one of the most efficient ways for homeowners to reduce water usage and cost. The Turf Replacement program pays the homeowners to remove grass and replace it with drought-tolerant landscaping and offers a rebate of $2 per square foot up to 5,000 square feet of converted yard area annually while funds last. To participate, you must apply for rebate funds prior to starting your project. Once your rebate has been reserved, you will have 180 days to complete your project and submit your rebate request" #drought#SoCal#lawn#rebatehttps://socalwatersmart.com/en/residential/rebates/available-rebates/turf-replacement-program/
Suburbanites in the fall: expending time, energy and/or money removing dead leaves from their lawn (instead of simply mulching in place with a lawnmower).
Suburbanites in the springtime: expending time, energy and/or money to import and apply fertilizer to their lawn (instead of relying on the now-biodegraded mulchings from the fall).
Anyone have an idea what is digging divots in our front lawn? These holes are everywhere. It looks like a dog did it, but it's only our front yard, no neighboring yards. Back yard is unaffected. The strip on the other side of the driveway is also untouched. #lawn#gardening#pest
Lawn is “covering around 40% of the planet’s land surface, lawns are monocultures made up of a handful of species that require frequent watering, fertiliser and – often – pesticides.
Lawn is “nature under totalitarian rule”. Michael Pollan
"At a larger scale they also suggested a permanence and control that assuaged anxieties about the fragility of colonial control. Andrea Gaynor, professor of history at the University of Western Australia, argues that while some settlers appreciated the beauty of Australian landscape from early on, that “didn’t override the necessity to provide a civilised veneer that meant the colony could project an image of itself as stable, settled and prosperous, and therefore an attractive field for investment. So the cultural aspect is deeply entwined with the economics of the whole enterprise.” Simultaneously lawns helped encode and reinforce racial and social hierarchies. “Lawns were understood by Perth’s white residents as the antithesis of, and vastly superior to, Indigenous landscapes and cultures,” says Gaynor."
“Even in a drying climate we’d rather run desal[ination] plants than do away with lawn. It really shows how deeply ingrained lawn is in Australian culture as a symbol of civilisation and environmental control.”
House of the French poet Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) in Normandy, France.
I was expecting the interiors to be preserved and styled in the way Prévert used to keep when alive. Unfortunately, the interiors are all replaced with tables and shelves with placards, souvenirs, and books for sale. It's more of a store than a trip to the past.
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
Rode into battle this morning on my trusty mount Jan-michel. We cut down their numbers with every charge but I am not fooled, we have only purchased a week's delay in their onslaught from our brave actions here today.
Also, sorry to my neighbors for the shriek of terror, that garter snake took me completely by surprise.
I applied an organic product that claimed to have bacteria that would eat the moss and produce fertiliser for the grass without making the moss turn black and having to rake it out. I finally mowed again this morning. It seems like it’s worked (although I’m sure the copious amount of rain has helped too). #lawn#gardening#moss#grass
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