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Turning in the widening gyre
A huge flock of pelicans played for a length of time in thermals above farmers market this morning. As they floated and turned in unison,...
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kaydee777
- Sep 6
- 4 min
On pickled things
As the harvest moon slowly swells, I’ve almost run out of jars for preserves: chutney, pickles, ferments and relishes. It’s been a good...
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kaydee777
- Aug 22
- 3 min
Green tourmaline: gemstone to heal the heart
At the south eastern end of Elephant Butte lake this morning I find slightly bumpy (surface wind) exquisite green tourmaline gemstone...
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kaydee777
- Aug 15
- 2 min
Navigating by the book
My plan for the final few hundred miles of the 5000 mile road trip was to leave the historic Route 66 around about Holbrook in Arizona...
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kaydee777
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Arizona Route 66, mostly a litany of diner woes.
The Arizona section of Route 66 is better preserved, in some ways, than the pieces of the old road which I found in California. That...
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kaydee777
- Aug 11
- 3 min
A desert road
The return journey from the California coast was planned to include some of the Mother Road, Route 66 , in California and Arizona, though...
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kaydee777
- Aug 9
- 4 min
Going south
While it wasn’t as extensive as planned, and the air was smoky from wildfires, I did get a little time breathing with some of the redwood...
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kaydee777
- Aug 8
- 2 min
Messing about with boats
If, by making Red Pony temporarily lame, fate decreed that I couldn’t mess about in boats* during my time in Crescent City, at least I...
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kaydee777
- Aug 7
- 1 min
Pebble Beach, Crescent City, California
With Red Pony and thus the kayak quarantined waiting for the required part to arrive, my dawn explorations of Crescent City’s Pebble Beach...
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kaydee777
- Aug 4
- 3 min
The lure of and temporary anchor in a crescent bay
After the lovely, full friendship revival experience of Newport, Oregon, my journey continued south on HWY 101. My goal was a bit of salt...
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kaydee777
- Aug 2
- 4 min
The house with a path with a heart
When first I heard, around nine months ago, that my Indian meditation and yoga teacher was going to be in Petaluma, California for a...
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kaydee777
- Aug 1
- 4 min
To the lake by way of the loneliest road
Day two of my roadtrip, from Mystic Hotsprings, Monroe, Utah, to Summer Lake Hotsprings, Paisley, Oregon was the longest in terms of...
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kaydee777
- Aug 1
- 5 min
Into the mystic
For almost a quarter of a century (as long as I have been wandering the North American continent) Mystic Hot Springs in Monroe, Utah has...
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kaydee777
- Aug 1
- 2 min
I will drive five thousand miles…
…to be the one* whose garden missed her. I’ve been away on a fourteen day, five thousand mile roadtrip. I thought the garden would be...
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kaydee777
- Jul 17
- 1 min
Life as a floral bordered beach
Datura wrightii (sacred datura) perfumes the air at my launch site on Lake Caballo this morning. Solanum elaeagnifolium (Silverleaf...
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kaydee777
- Jul 14
- 1 min
Spicy Thai Sunday
In spite of the extreme heat, the garden offered up a decent harvest this morning: a nice big Japanese eggplant, a healthy bunch of Thai...
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kaydee777
- Jul 11
- 1 min
Careful what you ask for
Finally a monsoon storm! It came with ferocity, late afternoon a few days ago : thunder, lightning, wind, pelting hail and, at last!...
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kaydee777
- Jul 9
- 2 min
The looking glass lizards of Rock Canyon
The sun had just slid over the horizon when I put in this morning, about half an hour later than usual, at Rock Canyon boat launch . I...
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kaydee777
- Jun 28
- 6 min
Till human voices wake us and we drown
For Robert Beverly Brooks 1941-2024 Monsoon season mornings are the best. Immersion in the dance of light on water is sometimes all...
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kaydee777
- Jun 26
- 1 min
Monsoon mornings
It is 82 (27 C) degrees at 6 am as the sun fires up the sky and going-to-seed sunflowers droop at the prospect of another scorching day....
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