Sparrow Tree Journal

  Way back on August 9th, 2010, I wrote my very first ever blog post, so that means today is Sparrow Tree Journal's 16th birthday!  I ca...

It's subtle, for the most part. A shift in the angle of light in the afternoons, slightly later sunrises. The green of the vegetation ou...

There's a big family event coming up next week up in Raleigh, NC. My late mother-in-law's husband, Lou, is turning 90 years old! His...

I'll be so glad when this summer is over. It's been dreadfully hot, even by South Carolina standards. I seem to get less and less to...

So, we're still feeding the feral mama cat and two of her original four kittens that I wrote about previously.  The two little tabbies d...

July is here, and with it another (almost) record heat wave. It's not even cooling down very much at night. In fact, I think it just get...

Here are some of the scant handfuls of veggies I've managed to harvest from this year's struggling summer garden. Not pictured: a qu...

I got two extra days off work this week, today and tomorrow. It was quite unexpected; my contracted days for the 2025/26 school year were do...