Marie McKinsey
- Mar 7, 2021
- 2 min
Two Happy Songs with Unhappy Lyrics
Sometimes all we know of a song is the chorus. If we don't know the words to the rest of the song, or the words are in a language we...
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Marie McKinsey
- Mar 6, 2021
- 2 min
How to Calculate Storm Water Run-off from Your Property
The EPA estimates that over 770 cities in the US combine waste water and stormwater in the same pipe and send it to sewage treatment...
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Marie McKinsey
- Feb 13, 2021
- 1 min
Back in the Day: Election Eve 1980
I shot these photos in 1980. Finally posted them in 2016. Monday, November 7, 2016 Today is Election Eve in the United States - tomorrow...
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Marie McKinsey
- Feb 13, 2021
- 1 min
Little Boxes Made of Ticky Tacky
I grew up in San Francisco's East Bay area, in the 1950s. My early memories are of orchards, vineyards and farm fields that grew every kind
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Marie McKinsey
- Feb 10, 2021
- 1 min
Pandemic Gardening
"'Tis an ill wind indeed, that blows no good." - William Shakespeare For all the pain and suffering brought by the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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Marie McKinsey
- Jul 18, 2016
- 2 min
Create a Bee Friendly Garden
Without bees, we wouldn't have much to eat and we would have far fewer herbs
and flowers to enjoy.
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Marie McKinsey
- Jun 25, 2016
- 1 min
Tillandsias
Tillandsias are air plants, members of the Bromeliad family. They are native to Central and South America, the southern US and the Caribbean
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Marie McKinsey
- May 1, 2016
- 3 min
Cascara Might Not Kill You, But...
You may remember this exchange between Master Raymond and Claire at his apothecary shop, in which he explains his clever solution for the pr
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