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An ambiguous utopia: true voyage is return*
“They aren’t going to come back” I had been thinking, almost reconciled to the saffron crocus ( Crocus sativus ) being lost to the...
kaydee777
Oct 22, 20242 min read
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Storied street food: metaphor and meal
Cooling on the rack today: a bunch of wobbly, misshapen versions of samosas, the quintessential Indian street food, which it turns out...
kaydee777
Oct 18, 20243 min read
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A festival of handprinting
Eleven vintage suitcases of freshly block printed cloth and one small case of hand printed cards accompanied me this weekend for a...
kaydee777
Oct 13, 20242 min read
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Coyote Ugly
While Florida battens down the hatches and evacuates ahead of mad bad Milton, it is perfect weather in the northern Chihuahuan desert....
kaydee777
Oct 9, 20243 min read
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Meanwhile
Hello autumn light! Spider season is upon us. Cobwebs appear everywhere. I am grateful that they are snaring the biting gnats which are...
kaydee777
Oct 4, 20242 min read
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Drive. Camp. Paddle.
Planning for the eastern NM Route 66 explorations can best be summed up as drive, camp, paddle (with eating in there, of course) I left...
kaydee777
Oct 2, 20244 min read
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Moth to a flame: Tucumcari tonight!
Perhaps nothing is more quintessential American road trip than the experience of sizzling, dazzling, charismatic neon roadside business...
kaydee777
Oct 1, 20245 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Sep 25, 20242 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Sep 24, 20245 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Sep 22, 20244 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Sep 14, 20242 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Sep 6, 20244 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Aug 22, 20243 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Aug 15, 20242 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Aug 14, 20242 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Aug 11, 20243 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Aug 9, 20244 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Aug 8, 20242 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Aug 7, 20241 min read
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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...
kaydee777
Aug 4, 20243 min read
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