Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Meet Maddie, she is staying with us for a while. She traveled all the way from Atlanta with her owner and their cat. My dog Jack, is completely smitten.

Apparently, the secret to a flourishing garden is to leave for a vacation for a week and leave the sprinkles on a timer. We came back to find our garden in full bloom. The procrastinating Easter Lily’s were filled with flowers. Our Morning Glories have now outgrown the bamboo and sprouted bright pink flowers. Even…

I want one of these it’s like having a piece of the “Flinstones”.

I grew Zinnias for the first time this year. I started them in pots but they never bloomed. It wasn’t unitl I put them in the ground and gave them room to grow did they start growing some buds. At first I wasn’t impressed with the flowers. They looked pretty but they lacked any character.…

I am slowly going through the process of downloading all of my travel photos. Most of them are a flash or a blur of passing scenery. Here is my collection of random oddities. The famous Marietta, Georgia Chicken. Kansas’s William Faulkner BBQ, who knew the author had such an influence on fine cuisine. I found…

I did some renovating to my garden. I took out some long suffering Zinnias and Cosmos out of there tiny pots and planted them in the back of the garden where they are blooming like crazy. But the front of the garden is tragically sparse. I’ve been experimenting with different ideas to grow seedlings. One…

We just got back from driving cross country. Our bags are unpacked and we are adjusting to our normal lives. Now I am nursing a cold I got somewhere between Georgia and Utah. I’ll post some travel pictures soon.

My weekend project was to move my now giant cosmo plants and stunted zinnias out of their pots and into the back of the garden. Wow, did these guys need to get out of those pots they had do much roots. The zinnias are now starting to bloom (finally) and the cosmos seem much happier.…

Today has been a flurry of cleaning, shopping, and last minute packing for our big trip. We are heading down to San Francisco at 2:30 AM to catch a flight to Georgia. Once there we will be driving across country back to California. Here’s a map of our journey. I appreciate any travel trips, anyone…