I Brake for Delphiniums

Moving Advisory....

2011-11-07T12:54:00.000-08:00

Dear Reader, All my comics are now posted on "The Clueless Gardener," so do mosey on over there for the "fun."
But, do I have any dear readers?

announcing a new cartoon! but on the other site!!

2011-06-07T09:48:00.000-07:00

Dealing with various versions of the dawn chorus.... go to thecluelessgardener.blogspot.com and --I hope--enjoy....!

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy.....

2011-04-16T19:04:00.000-07:00

If you go over to thecluelessgardener.blogspot.com, by clicking the link on top right, you can see that it was a slow news day for the broadsheet press corps over at the Clueless Gardener ...
[If you're good, I'll teach you the 'subway fold' before it falls completely out of use.]
Have a Happy Earth Day, if that's possible.

Earth Day Horror Pre-Show cartoon

2011-04-12T15:28:00.000-07:00

I've been haunted by this image since I first saw it last year. It is from photographer Chris Jordan, called 'Midway, CF000313,' and it's so powerful that I'm even having trouble typing this little blurb. Click on the cartoon to enlarge it and take a good look--you're staring at the fruits of our carelessness. Try to live one day without any excess plastic or packaging in your life. Just try. Even if you want to, you probably can't. We cannot live without this trash, and the natural world cannot live with it. I'm old enough to remember thinking it was pretty weird to suddenly be throwing away razors, pens, lighters, and wrapping and sealing our garbage into plastic bags. Now we even are told to bag up our used Christmas trees. How do we change such a deeply entrenched way of life?

[Comments or laments or whatever, accepted back at Clueless blog.]

go to "Clueless" for a new 'toon...

2011-02-22T14:54:00.000-08:00

what has texting in movies have to do with gardening?

2011-01-13T10:26:00.000-08:00

Well, probably not much, but this is what I felt like drawing.
Full version over on The Clueless Gardener....LOL!

oldie but goodie

2011-01-04T09:09:00.000-08:00

thecluelessgardener.blogspot.com

2011-01-03T08:52:00.000-08:00

...is where I really am...haven't figured out how to consolidate things, since I am eponymously clueless.

A New Cartoon....

2010-10-23T11:20:00.000-07:00

...now appearing exCLUsively on "The Clueless Gardener." Took me all day, so go look at it!

drive much?

2010-06-11T06:47:00.000-07:00

Posting over on "The Clueless Gardener"
exclusively now, dear reader.
If I have a dear reader.

to atone...

2009-12-23T07:40:00.000-08:00

...for selfishly not recycling this week, to clear out
the bins for Christmas, making me feel very
small and guilty, I give you a suggestion to keep
the earth intact another day....
...Make Merry, and Have a Happy 2010!
I will try to post more here, or merge cartoons
onto "The Clueless Gardener" next annee.

oldie but goodie...

2009-05-26T06:55:00.000-07:00

...have I never posted this one? This particular

chicken scratch is hereby

dedicated to "SoWalBeachBum", who seems to need

this advice!!

throw up your hands in despair with me...but first:

2009-04-22T07:51:00.001-07:00

click on it to enlarge...cheers!

click on it to enlarge...cheeeeeeep!

2009-03-13T16:24:00.001-07:00

maybe soon? maybe?

2009-03-09T10:03:00.000-07:00

I am actually working on a new garden cartoon...I have been way distracted from this topic, due to another project and, of course, winter. But shall try to finish this today or tomorrow, fwiw!

not about gardens....

2009-02-12T14:30:00.000-08:00

...but it is about cartoons....

this is an exhibit I just attended, all originals of NY'er cartoons about money. The theme is making too much of it, generally. Best part was seeing two power-groomed executives meeting there and chuckling their way through the show, un-ironically laughing at the greedy boobs in the 'toons, unaware they were boobs, too. Oh, and a rich elderly lady commenting that Helen Hokinson used to live in a cottage on a "friend's estate." !!

As soon as I can get it together, as I have no drawing area at the moment, I will endeavor to supply my handful of readers with a new cartoon of my own. Don't all cheer and clap at once!

kissing ball greetings

2008-12-10T14:55:00.000-08:00

Time to honor my favorite Christmas decoration in cartoon

form...a boxwood kissing ball has hung every year in my doorway

for the holidays, only the catch is, I never take it down.

Through the following year, it dries and turns a nice

dried tan color...then in December I put up the next green one.

And so on, and so on...now to transfer this image to a card, which

is quite beyond my abilities with both photoshop, the internets,

not to mention how to deal with those surly clerks at Kinko's.

Wish me luck. Merry Kruschev, Randoob. [First reader to

get this reference gets a prize! You know who you are!]

A Cruel Blow...

2008-09-03T10:45:00.000-07:00

Don't you hate it when they cart all those ugly hothouse mums in? Every big box store, supermarket, drugstore and garden center has dozens and dozens, and they're all horrible...

Blue Language...

2008-08-11T17:45:00.000-07:00

Her motto is "No lumbricus left behind"

2008-06-18T10:58:00.000-07:00

Plus she put on a bucket of sunblock...

2008-06-02T12:18:00.001-07:00

Hug a Tree, p.r.n....

2008-05-15T14:45:00.000-07:00

Keepin' It Classy Out in the Flowerbed...

2008-05-06T15:46:00.000-07:00

Spring Is Here...I Pulled One Off My Knee

2008-04-29T12:51:00.001-07:00

She Only Came In For a Flat of Pansies...

2008-04-21T14:05:00.000-07:00

Good Fences Make...

2008-04-04T13:08:00.000-07:00

Live, from Mother Nature!

2007-06-26T08:26:00.000-07:00

I Hear My Meadow Ticking...

2007-05-10T11:59:00.000-07:00

I'm now on my third course of antibiotics. I went into my field for a half hour two weeks ago to get some compost and leaf mold. And they got me! Now when I look at my field, I imagine the ixodes scapularis planning their assault...

2007-04-10T08:20:00.000-07:00

2007-03-28T07:50:00.000-07:00

Below is this week's drawing, sorry about the corrections! That's a dollar sign [$] in front of the 39 in the bottom balloon. Titling this one "One is nearer to God in a garden..."

2007-03-28T07:47:00.000-07:00

2007-03-03T09:42:00.000-08:00

In the Bleak Midwinter...

2007-02-02T11:58:00.000-08:00

A Man's Long Vigil Ends at Last!

2006-11-13T09:44:00.000-08:00

Gardening Is Dignified Dept.

2006-10-04T09:58:00.000-07:00

...as if the kids needed another reason to laugh at us!

Here's a gun law we all can agree on...

2006-09-27T12:51:00.000-07:00

Gardeners Plan Ahead!

2006-09-21T13:57:00.000-07:00

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2006-09-06T11:09:00.000-07:00

Z-Z-Z-Z-Z

2006-08-30T08:18:00.000-07:00

oops!

2006-08-23T16:52:00.000-07:00

This week's drawing-of-dubious-entertainment-value is over on Clueless Gardener... which proves once again that my main blog is appropriately titled. Cheers!

Gardeners must be patient!

2006-08-07T08:11:00.000-07:00

2006-07-31T07:38:00.000-07:00

Hold Your Nose!

2006-07-24T13:30:00.000-07:00

Oh, Deer

2006-07-23T08:50:00.000-07:00

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2006-07-04T11:34:00.000-07:00

The Funnies

2006-07-04T11:11:00.000-07:00

I love cartoons, too. So, combining my two great interests, this is hereby christened to be a blog of garden cartoons. I'll have one or two newies each week, with any kind of luck at all. Here's one for starters. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go watch my moss grow! --TCG

2006-07-04T11:05:00.000-07:00