NOMAD DREAMING

It's sometimes warm enough now to take my dawn cup of tea on the front porch, where I enjoy a ringside seat on the enchanted...

"If I were asked to name the chief benefits of the house I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer,...

Late last week, while my fruit trees were preparing to burst their buds, I went on a little southern Arizona plant hunting roadtrip...

The apricot tree surprised me with blossoms today when there I was pottering around road-tripping one state over, thinking I had the...

"If productivity narrows our days, then creativity expands them. Creativity doesn't follow a plan but it has its own ebb and...

In my garden the first volunteer annual after (during) winter, is typicallySisymbrium irio, commonly known here as London Rocket....

The wind dropped and a wrap around blue sky persuaded me to down garden tools, take on the chill mid forties temperatures and head out...

After leaving the almost paradise of Chinati Hotsprings I took some time to dawdle amongst the cherubim, ghosts and dust of Ruidosa,...

On my Texas road-tripping in January 2022, I made the mistake of trying to do too much: west Texas AND the gulf coast, in one journey. It...

Marfa (pop around 1900) so beloved of artists, looked, from my internet research, to be a suitable refueling stop on my west Texas road...

Lobo appears as a dot on the map in a long, long empty stretch of road as I am plotting logistics for a west Texas road trip. From my...

In my studies for a yoga therapist certification, I have been reading about the relationship between vision, the brain and the human...

It was the stillness that first alerted me when I woke. I hadn't known my senses remembered this particular quality of quiet that attends...

A little road trip over the lightly snow covered Black Range helped a little with my midwinter, travel starved cabin fever. On the other...

This new moon we greet a feminine, yin Year of Water Rabbit. The four colour card used the rabbit block carved in 2011, and in keeping...

On an overcast afternoon with charcoal smudged skies, a little walk in the park seems to be a thing to do. In the soft lighting the...

Today's exploration of the West Lakeshore Trail in Elephant Butte Lake State Park was an impulse decision. I had to deliver some seed...

Just another enchanted dawn: sunrise from the front porch with Turtleback Mountain sneaking into the picture. Streetview of a midwinter...

On a chilly Sunday, when just about the whole western) world was feasting (again), ostensibly this time because of the birth of a saviour...

Breakfast of champions. Blue corn pancakes with maple syrup, blueberries and bananas. I used my own homegrown blue corn which I nixtamalized, (following a YouTube video) and then ground myself in a kitchen processor. Cornmeal is mixed with equal parts chickpea flour to help the pancakes bind and raise the protein level. Liquid can be plant or dairy milk or even just water. A dash of cooking oil. I used olive oil because I don't mind the taste. Baking powder for leavening. Th