NOMAD DREAMING

First planting of 2021: 13 asparagus crowns and 80 red onion sets. I doubled up on Purple Passion asparagus. Because who can resist the...

Opuntia minimalism. Looking at light. Hillsboro, New Mexico

Anyone who has even tried herding cats will appreciate the zen call of this traffic sign. Hillsboro,New Mexico one of those small...

A mineral hotsprings soak and aqua yoga in the Pelican Spa aqua blue room. Had the big 5 person bath all to myself because no other rooms...

First wooden window renovation achieved. Took 3 days wherein I had to reinstall windows each night to stop the sub zero desert night from...

Fiddling while Rome burns. Carving the Metal Ox lunar new year blocks in the winter thin afternoon sun outback.

Brunch at The Roost Deli and Cafe ie: under the cottonwood tree in the northwest corner of my garden. Sign was a lucky find at the local...

Said goodbye to 2020 with a little walk at the waters edge of Lake Caballo. Bluebird gave me five feathers for happiness. The sky came...

Good morning Turtleback Mountain, Good morning moon, Good morning sun, good morning sky, Good morning trees, good morning birds , good...

By the light of the dying embers of 2020, a refreshed front screen door was finally achieved . The screen needed to be replaced as it had...

Spent some time today foraging on BLM lands and Gila National Forest: collected cow dung (for my garden) wood and pine cones for making...

The hacienda has farolitos/luminarias on this Christmas Eve. Inside Silver Girl is decked out, as usual, in her everyday Christmas Tree...

There I was on this Christmas eve doing the usual drywall patching, down on my knees and up to my elbows in tools and plaster and...

Caribbean/SouthAfrican/ 6th Avenue Shala fusion breakfast: crispy (oven baked ) pumpkin fritters, crumbly soft goat milk cheese flavored...

Monticello public school building. A thirties WPA project. New Mexico, December 2020.

Sunday afternoon in the thin, almost winter solstice sun: sanding a piece of Antigua de Mexico which I found in a junkyard. Chihuahuan...

Enjoying the kitchen window birdbath today: two different red breasts and a magnificently iridescent black feathered, red eyed fellow...

On a little drive up into the forests, to collect pine cones, I find fat, fluffy squirrels foraging the same territory as me. I keep my...

Tardus migratorius aka the American Robin takes a break from starring on holiday cards as the morning sun slowly moves across the kitchen...

Finally finished shelling the dried pulse harvest. I grew about 11 different variety of bean and pea, 8 of which were for drying. The...