NOMAD DREAMING

It blocked a street, took 2 work trucks, a trailer, 6 males and a crane but the HVAC unit is on the roof. This afternoon the plumbing...

In just a few weeks, neighborhood felines have reduced the flourishing catnip to a few squashed leaves. I’m hoping to support new growth...

Mesquite and the moon. Dancing with the stars. Crescent edition waxing pregnant with potential

Time moves in a parallel dimension. Time offers the gift of stalking crow. Crow eating. “Crow...nailing heaven and earth...

I try to be diligent about keeping the wildlife watering stations full. If I don’t, the birds make their dissatisfaction with low water...

Janis truck and I took a little ride into the Chihuahuan desert at sunrise this morning to wild harvest Larrea tridentata (aka Creosote...

On impulse, I turned this week’s experimental free form baking - red chile pepper spiced, vegan, gluten free corn bread - into rusks....

Another crock of purple cabbage set to bubble and burb its way to sauerkraut today. #kitchenalchemy

A fine and opinionated Curve Bill Thrasher enjoying the Kitchen Window Bird Bath in somewhat windy conditions. Hence the ruffled feathers...

The hacienda has been colonized by construction crew this week, installing ductwork for the HVAC system and roofing the conservatory,...

Redneck Riviera or garden edging using repurposed glass bottles? Started edging this garden bed with rocks but ran out. My glass bottle...

The kale, heedless of there being no Farmer’s Market on the horizon to sell at, is currently very bountiful. Enter experiments in kitchen...

Today’s archaeological find, digging in the Back Forty. A glass bottle stopper. A little applied research yielded that this possibly...

Striped Japonica, a Japanese heirloom flint corn went into the ground today. Next winter’s corn bread and polenta? Maybe. I have not...

In just seven days...a Milagro Cornfield germinates. Little inch high rows of Painted Mountain rainbow corn pushed up through the earth...

Harvested my first radishes of the season. They made a nice, fresh addition to my lunch plate - a vegan, homemade variation on the...

The Spanish Fuschia-fication of the front door. Been meaning to paint the door since oh maybe November last year. But then it was going...

After watering mugshots

Asparagus pickles with garlic, dill weed and caraway seeds in the brine. Won’t know for a week how this tastes. Never pickled asparagus...

April full moon: the Back Forty Food Forest update: red cabbage, kale, spinach and garlic are flourishing. Sugar snap peas about 3 inches...