NOMAD DREAMING

Early morning walk in Sevillita National Wildlife Refuge. Blooming cactus. It’s the season.

White perennial petunias are perfuming the hacienda from the household altar today. I had to discipline the exuberance this morning, as...

I’ve been pondering a backyard safety hazard a while now. The person I commissioned to make my washing line was quite short, resulting...

It’s not just the Mexican chairs look better against the colour choice of the old mermaids. Mizuna, sown from seed late last September to...

I am challenging vertigo and fear of long ladders by painting the exterior walls of the hacienda this week (between windy days). The joy...

With the ink hardly dry on the Prez signing the American Rescue bill into law, 12 March my stimulus cheque is showing (pending) in my...

All those cowpeas (vigna unguiculata) I grew and harvested last year? Some of them translated into a batch of (vegan) cowpea veggie...

Sunrise colours later in the day. Orange, white and blue. Or desert town details. Because who remembers the oranje blanje blaauw? Of...

Out of 40 Darwin hybrid tulip bulbs planted early 2020, one has returned. The Chihuahuan desert obviously isn’t the best place for...

Reaching for the sky just to surrender. Celebrating the almond breaking dormancy, watching bees in the fruit blossoms. #6thavenueshala

The girl with the deer tattoo is done! Second shot of Covid 19 vaccine administered in wraparound sunshine in the parking lot at Sierra...

Today’s aquatic yoga therapy session for the rotator cuff is in the yellow room at Pelican Spa. In 2015, when first I encountered this...

Spring is definitely stirring in the garden. Weeping Santa Rosa plum has blossoms. A few tulips from last year’s plantings are pushing...

Tight buds are swelling daily on the two Santa Rosa plum (one standard, one weeping) and the apricot trees. #6thavenueshala

Still working on aquatic therapy and strengthening on the torn rotator cuff which is virtually pain free now. This week all that was...

Daily art journal page (still evolving ) 21/2/21. Trying to resume the morning pages habit.

For this week’s go play outside and find horizons date I walked a small stretch of the West Lakeshore Trail in Elephant Butte Lake State...

The guardians of the southern driveway entrance, in what is normally a sheltered alcove, are also anointed with the blessing of snow....

The blessing of precipitation in the desert. Just a light dusting at first light this morning. Wind chill is making it colder. I might...