Garden Musings

Creatures creep in my garden fair, They sneak and crawl, go here and there. They run, they jump, they eat, they fight, They wander there mos...

 Sometimes, I wonder what I'm running here on the prairie;  a garden or a zoo?  Just one of my game cameras took over a thousand "s...

Like an exile without a country, ProfessorRoush this week was a gardener without much of a garden.  Cold brisk weather and a little snow com...

Don't get mislead; ProfessorRoush cares not even a minuscule portion of his bones that it's Superbowl Sunday.  Well, perhaps a few d...

It was a week ago today that Bella, the garden defender, informed me that the deer were back grazing in the garden.  A few loud barks at 6:3...

My trail camera has spent most of the summer in desperate need of attention.  The batteries were beyond dead and I had removed the digital m...

The best laid plans so often lay an egg, don't they?  Several weeks ago, the hummingbirds arrived to my garden, resulting in a massive i...

As Fall moves along and Winter draws ever closer, ProfessorRoush is not the only creature participating in increased garden activities.  My...

I had an unexpected and unpleasant surprise last weekend in my garden.  All over several beds, some devious night-walking creature had excav...

Finally, my game camera has captured its first infrared photos of unauthorized nocturnal garden visitors (as opposed to the 300-odd candid p...