Garden Musings

 I'm sure a few of you caught the national news about the little blow that swept through Kansas and Nebraska on December 15th.  This was...

 ProfessorRoush woke up to a thanks-filled morning after a cold night on the prairie covered the grass with a heavy frost, bejeweling it wit...

 ProfessorRoush has had quite the week;  a week that seems to be continuing even as I write.   It all started last Sunday.   My intention th...

 ProfessorRoush accomplished several main fall chores last weekend and during the week. Last Sunday was a windy, but pleasant and sunny day ...

How did I miss it?  Was I asleep, beginning hibernation at the onset of cold weather, plodding in stupor through the daily cycle of wake-eat...

The changes in setting and mood according to ambient light sometimes astounds ProfessorRoush, particularly in relationship to photographs an...

Hi, Everyone!   I apologize for the long lapse in posting, but autumn has been moving along and the world is streaming past my eyes at the s...

 Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, dogs and bees, I give you the crowning glory of the Kansas fall prairie, the Maximilian Sunflower ( H...

The slothful side of ProfessorRoush unabashedly slithers up in late August each year.   As September slowly slides in, I tire of mowing and ...

Friends, ProfessorRoush failed you miserably today, too weak in a critical moment to do what really needed to be done.  I failed to capture ...

ProfessorRoush was surely not planning on this topic for a blog as he woke and schemed the day ahead, but opportunities arise and their urge...

Here in the furnace of August, with the grass dry and crumbling beneath my step, my garden glows red in the hot sunshine, concentrating and ...

ProfessorRoush is polling today (or is it trolling?) with a troubling question for my blog readers.   Gardeners, do you prefer the captured ...