NOMAD DREAMING

Wandering on the western edge of town, under the canopy of a soft, monsoon season, sunset. Somewhere there is rain falling, but not here....

Allium Tuberosum (garlic chives, Chinese chives) are flowering. Bees are happy. While I use these chives extensively in cookery for a...

Couldn’t resist playing with the beauties air drying on a woven reed plate: cayenne peppers and lablab purpureus (hyacinth bean/dolichos...

There’s a smell of desert rain on the air and a monsoon season magnificence of sunset light play. Not captured were the brilliant flashes...

Tiny hummingbirds are really busy in the garden right now. I am not really good at hummingbird identification but I suspect these are...

Today a a little 4 foot tall Black Mission Fig (ficus carica)was invited to root down and rise up in the back garden at the 6th Avenue...

Not all my kitchen alchemical projects are unqualified success stories. Last week I took on the pursuit of wild yeast, attempting a...

A monsoon rain wet garden meant I haven’t been harvesting for a few days. Today, after the sun came out and dried everything, I ventured...

”…nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old..…”Jack Kerouac For a date with the 2021 edition...

Dripping. Rippling. Reflections. Meditations on a rainy afternoon in the Faywood Hotsprings soaking tubs. All is light. Refracted. And...

It’s the season of midday twilight and full bellied clouds. If the clouds come any lower, the ocotillo will puncture those heavy bellies...

I never get tired of the vivid colours from the garden. It’s not just the harvest. A volunteer Tithonia inserted itself, unnoticed, in...

One of my kitchen alchemy projects this week: dipping my toe into the world of vegan cheese making with a super simple vegan...

First flowers on the Sonoran White Tepary beans on day 35 after planting . This patch is within the promised 40 days from planting to...

Today’s harvest: piles of eggplant, a handful of sweet Gypsy peppers, green beans, cowpeas, Cape gooseberries, Jing okra, and the first...

Cowpeas ready for shelling and Jing orange okra also came in from the garden today. #6thavenueshala

Brunch today: baked split pea/brown rice/oats veggie patties slathered in homemade tomato sauce and green tomato chutney, fresh picked...

Today’s harvest of heirloom Fresno (hot) green chile peppers, yellow onions, and a few scuzzy tomatoes (I think the prolonged, excessive...

Neighbourhood felines are thirsty. Almost every day I spot a variety of them prowling the jungle of the lush August undergrowth, availing...