NOMAD DREAMING

Neighborhood Watch is on duty. Move over New York Public Library, Coyote Town has feline sentinels too.

Monsoon season is Desert Tarantula (Aphonopelma chalcodes) mating time. This Lothario, found occupying my front door mat at dawn today,...

In mid March I acquired some blue (aka purple) seed potatoes in a neighborhood plant swap. Thankyou aloe plant for all that expansion...

Happy Solstice to all. Celebrate the light! #6thavenueshala

When I purchased this amaryllis (Apple Blossom) back in mid October 2019, I asked it to bloom for solstice, meaning mid-winter. I wanted...

A solstice floral offering for the old mermaids and conchologists of this ancient ocean place. The first of the Seashell cosmos (Cosmos...

Black Panther came prowling. Do you appreciate the sparkling clean birdbath? I did it for the birds, but you’re welcome! I guess it’s too...

Today’s harvest and today’s main meal: Royal Burgundy beans and Swiss chard, Baby beets. The garden harvest items were steamed then...

The first slowly ripening tomatoes were harvested today. This slicing/snacking fruit came from a Bonnie Plants hybrid called Patio, bred...

Sweet desert nectar. I collected 7 lbs of little local apricots from a neighbour this morning. Excalibur, the dehydrator, is loaded up...

The garlic harvest needed disciplining, so I taught myself to make garlic braids. Thankyou YouTube. Apparently, according to one random...

Lunch: a bowl of fermented veggies and apple cider vinegar pickles to go with my caraway and flax seed chapati. Asparagus, purple cabbage...

Let me lead you up my garden path, introduce you to some of the current greeters of the front walkway. #6thavenueshala

Chile pepper harvest has begun. The Milagro Pepper Patch yielded half a pound of Serrano and Havasu peppers today. This is my first time...

Cosmos sulphureus is blooming. Seed for this patch of fiery brilliance on the edge of the Milagro Rainbow Cornfield came from a little...

Another day, another hemerocallis #6thavenueshala #edibleflowers

Waning moon setting in a soft desert dawn #6thavenueshala

I might have missed seeing the full moon setting, but I’ll take a dawn thunderstorm and rainbows with gratitude. #6thavenueshala

Collard greens cooked I-tal Jamaican style, New Mexico grown walnuts and Forbidden Rice. Irie, mon . #kitchenalchemy #italcooking...

Moonflowers for the full moon. I *might* have succeeded in germinating 2 little Sacred Datura (Datura Wrightii) in the mountain view,...