Raise your hand if you’ve ever wandered your garden or even checked on your plants at night, with a flashlight.  That’s what I thought.  It’s 47 degrees F and clear tonight, and having been at work all day, I missed my garden, so I’ve just returned from a thorough flashlight evaluation of same.  There are practical reasons to visit the garden at night – a lot of pest activity occurs under cover of darkness – but mostly I just like to look at the plants.  The bear was back in the garden about a week ago, and tore down the fence in the new area – remind me to tell you about the bear – and last night it wrecked all the trashcans on the road and made a huge mess, but I’m happy to report that I didn’t  have any contact with it this evening.