NOMAD DREAMING

The first rays of the sun, moving across the garden, pick out shapes, forms, colours; cast long shadows and highlight mutable patches of...

After my visit to Boyce Thompson arboretum I spent the night in a lovely AirBnB in Tucson. I ate wonderful vegan food. I highly recommend...

I’ve waited more than five years to find out that I’ve been gardening all wrong in the Chihuahuan desert. I did this by finally...

Though the fruit tree blossoms are gone for another year, there is a sudden burst of growing and blooming happening in the garden....

The neon tube lights flicker. The radio is set to a country music station. The washer squeaks, thumps and whines rhymthically through its...

Way back in autumn of 2021, I ordered a variety of ornamental onions including Azure Alliums ( Allium caeruleum ). The little packages...

It rained (briefly). I’ve read that shallots like to be kept damp. To retain as much as possible of that lovely moisture around the...

Spring equinox, Holi and the full worm (or crow) moon came. High winds took out infrastructure which is essential for my home internet...

A spring storm system this week brought a light dusting of snow to the Caballo Mountains to the south. In town we had about an hour of...

The apricot, always the first, offers some few blossoms to the lukewarm spring sunshine today, even though temperatures last night went...

There are signs of shallots sprouting at last, in spite of recent really strong winds, gusting sometimes up to 60mph, which scoured the...

Going beyond the wasteland, on a little wander in the Black Range mountains today: a diamond brilliance of light, snow still dusting old...

Recently I took a little walk through a nearby slot canyon. I’ve been meaning to explore this magical place a while now. Just 35 miles...

Tumbleweeds the size of small cars take to the streets of Coyote Town, gathering random debris as they roll along. Don’t even think about...

Treated myself to a mineral hotsprings soak at the Pelican Spa to honour the full snow moon. My favourite room was available. Love this...

For breakfast today, I am slicing into this beautifully decorated loaf of sourdough bread, picked up at Socorro Farmers Market on...

The day before my birthday in the place where the Texas coastline holds the Gulf of Mexico like a lady, or so the Clint Black song would...

Shake out the ghost dance Even after more than twenty years in the northern hemisphere, I cannot get used to a winter birthday. Born in...

Precipitation at last! We don‘t often get snow, and haven’t had significant precipitation for a long time. Though the garden is...

Big Bend National Park is a place of exquisite geography sculpted by elemental things: the fire of ancient volcanic activity (E! Pele! E!...