NOMAD DREAMING

The first pods of pinto beans were found to be crackly and ready for harvest this week. Opening the pods reveals jewels: beautiful...

At the plant nursery which I visited this week, I found a sleeping cat amongst the African Violets display. I restrained myself from...

A somewhat wounded pollinator visited this morning, spotted first on a sunflower out back. Not much later, they did a fly-by of the...

When I pictured a garden in the Chihuahuan desert, sun ripened, sanyasi saffron orange apricots weighing down the limbs of the tree was...

Experimented today with a lentil flatbread (chapatti) to go with my hummus and red cabbage, caraway sauerkraut main meal. Of course I...

After producing flowers, then little round green berries (which I cut off and composted) some of the potato plants were looking a bit...

I got to use one of the drawer full of free, government issue Covid-19 self testing kits this week. I was invited to a meal at a...

Apple pie with my morning coffee today. Not because I’ve been baking, but because I traded a handprinted dish cloth for a pie at farmers...

Bees make merry every morning now in the bread seed poppies, ensuring that a good supply of that wonderful baking ingredient will be...

I was going to post pictures, today, of the full Flower Moon flowers in the Garden of Earthly Delights but the fine ash falling, eerie...

Because there is so much smoke from wildfires in our atmosphere, this month’s full moonrise courted the drama, foreshadowing the eclipse....

This morning’s harvest: a whole lot of curly kale, 3 baby beets and a bunch of fat radishes. It has really been too hot this spring for...

A few months ago I came home from a plant nursery visit with a couple of Lycium barbarum aka Wolfberry or Goji berry plants. This morning...

The self seeded Cosmos Bipinnatus certainly are doing some interesting things. Not only are they flowering much shorter than the 3 ft...

In the cool early morning, a lovely perfume leads me to discover the first flowers of the season offered by Madame Moonflower (Datura...

Not enough for strawberry scones, which I was contemplating, this morning’s harvest of eight for infinity, sweet strawberries served as...

Working in the cool morning hours today, moving a recently collected pile of stones around, making pockets to plant some new drought...

Celebrating this northern hemisphere Beltane/May Day (which marks the midpoint between spring equinox and summer solstice) by bringing in...

Another Saturday morning spent at farmers market. This could become a habit. Really I wanted to just keep my booth space by attending a...

A few days ago, high petrol price notwithstanding, I took a little road trip to Sierra Vista Growers - a wholesale and retail plant...