NOMAD DREAMING

At last! The French Grey aka Griselle shallots (Allium oschaninii) for planting arrived. They look a little scuzzy and a few are just...

Finally found the Mexican screen door I’ve been dreaming of for five years. I was beginning to think I was going to have to drive into...

The rest of the garlic saved for sowing (a pound) was planted today in beautiful, slightly unseasonably warm sunshine. With afternoon...

While I am not fond, at all, of the artifice of the practice of Daylight Savings Time, which involves changing the clock seasonally,...

My order of a lb of planting setts of Allium cepa var. aggregatum - Dutch shallots aka multiplier onions or potato onions - arrived in...

Deepavali greetings from the northern Chihuahuan desert where every dawn is a festival of colour and light. May your life be as full of...

Continuing my tradition (all of one year old) of planting garlic on Halloween, the first of the new season’s sowing went into the earth...

The birds have welcomed the return of a clean and refilled bird bath to the back garden with great splashy sessions and a commotion of...

Took a drive up Emory Pass in the Black Range mountains (aka Sierra Diablo/Devil’s Mountains) to get some perspective, lift the elephant...

Last week I prepared and delivered my first big order of 6th Avenue Shala spices. Twelve jars of chai masala for gifts for participants...

Because I am surrounded by this free, desert adapted, nutrient rich vegetable, today’s brunch made use of nopal (opuntia cactus) pads. I...

Well hello! Look who is hanging out on the front screen door. Trickster mantis, herself. Looking in. Looking all around. Uh huh. Uh huh....

Dancing with Venus, in the western sky, just after sunset. Cradling the shadow of her full potential, in the crescent of her arms. A...

Good morning sky. Good morning clouds. Good morning sun. Good morning mountain. Good morning seeds. Good morning neighbours. Good morning...

Dawn skies are filled with the honking vees of migratory cranes and geese these days. Sign of season’s change. Some might be moving...

Today I received a third Covid-19 vaccination. Hard to believe it’s been more than six months since my second shot. Yes, I know, much of...

Just before sunrise, I spy the old crescent moon, floating in an immanence of peach fuzz dawn, cradling the faint full moon in her arms....

It’s the season of the ancestors where I live and, with so much blooming going on in the garden, the pollinators could afford to spare...

While weeding today, I accidentally pulled up one of the peanut plants. I wasn’t planning on harvesting the small peanut patch for...

There was a rainstorm. Then the sun came out. I went for a walk to find the town had put on all its opuntia finery, preening, admiring...