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kaydee777
Sep 252 min read
Petroglyphless at Conchas Lake
The light at Conchas lake at dawn with the full moon setting has the pearly salmon opalescence of the inside of a conch shell. Though I...
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kaydee777
Sep 245 min read
The indifferent stars
“…the fault dear Brutus lies not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings…” William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar A predawn...
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kaydee777
Sep 224 min read
Harvest moon
The garden is a mess this full harvest moon. This summer has just been too hot to spend any time outside caring for it, and way too dry...
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kaydee777
Sep 142 min read
Turning in the widening gyre
A huge flock of pelicans played for a long time in thermals above farmers market this morning. As they floated, reeled and turned in...
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kaydee777
Sep 64 min read
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 223 min read
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 152 min read
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 142 min read
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 113 min read
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 94 min read
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 82 min read
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 71 min read
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 43 min read
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 24 min read
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 14 min read
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 15 min read
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 12 min read
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 171 min read
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 141 min read
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 111 min read
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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