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kaydee777
Jul 92 min read
The looking glass lizards of Rock Canyon
The sun had just slid over the horizon when I put in this morning, about half an hour later than usual, at Rock Canyon boat launch . I...
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kaydee777
Jun 286 min read
Till human voices wake us and we drown
For Robert Beverly Brooks 1941-2024 Monsoon season mornings are the best. Immersion in the dance of light on water is sometimes all...
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kaydee777
Jun 261 min read
Monsoon mornings
It is 82 (27 C) degrees at 6 am as the sun fires up the sky and going-to-seed sunflowers droop at the prospect of another scorching day....
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kaydee777
Jun 201 min read
If you want butterflies
There I was thinking I was growing my own parsley for tabbouleh and falafels but turns out I am growing it for butterflies. Black...
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kaydee777
Jun 192 min read
Fiddling while Rome burns
Another batch of baked falafel came out of the oven today. I’m still getting the hang of using my newest kitchen tool: a stainless steel...
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kaydee777
Jun 113 min read
Piquant and fruity with floral notes
With apricot harvest over for another year, the pantry is once again stocked with piquant and fruity apricot chutney. Move over Mrs...
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kaydee777
Jun 52 min read
Harvest and heat
Birds have begun showing way too much interest in the ripening apricots, in spite of the trashy silver plastic twirlers I hung in the...
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kaydee777
May 292 min read
Dining with a view
The starting gun for summer has sounded across the county I currently inhabit. Although it isn’t finished, one of my cool season garden...
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kaydee777
May 282 min read
A sparkling serpent
Way back in winter when it was comfortable to do things outside in the sunshine, I occupied some pleasant hours making a snake on a piece...
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kaydee777
May 262 min read
But is it scary?
As the apricots swell and turn from green to orange, there are signs of bird interest. Last year I used nets but, over the course of the...
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kaydee777
May 251 min read
Shielded by sunflowers
The view from my bed these days. Who needs curtains when there are sunflowers to stand guard? It’s that time of year again when the bird...
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kaydee777
May 241 min read
Garnet apples from the earth
I should probably have left them longer, but I pulled all the Red Norland potatoes this week. I was really craving potato and the plants...
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kaydee777
May 233 min read
May flowers
February started the blooming in the Garden of Earthly Delights with the frothy fruit trees. March and April brought Illium and Iris (...
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kaydee777
May 141 min read
And the garden picks up the tab
Sixteen of this stash of bushel basket gourds have gone to a gourd artist today. I laid them out in the driveway so he could select the...
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kaydee777
May 131 min read
Pea green boats and going to sea on a sunflower
Today’s haul of sugar snap peas was gobbled up quickly before the owl and the pussycat could get ideas about vessels for a (possibly...
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kaydee777
May 12 min read
Another Roadside Attraction
A few days ago, I got to be part of Another Roadside Attraction* on the side of HWY60, just west of Magdalena New Mexico. (Pop: 821 as of...
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kaydee777
Apr 271 min read
Madiba’s magic house
Happy Freedom Day. For those who remember 27 April 1994 and the first democratic elections in South Africa, some pictures of from the...
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kaydee777
Apr 241 min read
Fūl medames: a bit of wild alongside the long ago tamed.
This morning the back garden offered up a lovely harvest of Fava beans (Vicia faba) and young chenopodium (goosefoot) which are...
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kaydee777
Apr 233 min read
In praise of opuntia
New pads are emerging on the purple prickly pear which was introduced to the front sidewalk as a single pad in early spring a year ago....
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kaydee777
Apr 182 min read
Bathroom project update
Finally I’m nearing completion on The Bathroom Project. After 20 years of collecting Mexican tiles and a year and twenty days of...
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