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kaydee777
Apr 161 min read
Earth tones
Who is this new room mate discovered hanging out on the garlic? Bedazzled in the desert. Bedazzled by the desert. Pomegranates are...
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kaydee777
Apr 81 min read
Less than totality is still magic
Through a kitchen colander darkly. It is sooooo cold when the moon cuts in to steal a slow dance with the sun. While not in the path of...
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kaydee777
Mar 312 min read
What the bunny brought
Green eggs. No ham. Well not really eggs either but beans. Fava beans (Vicia faba aka Broad Beans) in flower and setting pods. These...
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kaydee777
Mar 303 min read
Celebrating solid mandalas : world marble day
"There is another world, but it is in this one" Patrick White in The Solid Mandala. There's a fairly large glass spice shaker on a shelf...
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kaydee777
Mar 123 min read
Spring has a status?
Turns out it isn't just the fruit trees. Wandering the outback in yesterday's sunrise, attempting to convince my body that the time...
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kaydee777
Mar 63 min read
Parking at Parker Lake, Arizona
` When I arrived at my reserved campsite at River Island State Park, on the Colorado River just south of Parker Lake, I decided to sleep...
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kaydee777
Mar 35 min read
The Road To Gila Bend: getting to Arizona’s West Coast.
Made Nogales over night Through the desert in the yellow light Missing everything I left behind Will they see me coming? Do they know I'm...
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kaydee777
Feb 292 min read
The darling buds of….February
What a difference 5 or 6 days make! I came back from a little road-trip (later on that) to find the garden had seized the day and got on...
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kaydee777
Feb 293 min read
New skin for the old ceremony
The signs are hard to read, cracked and weathered, aged by the harsh desert conditions. Though I like to bring my visitors (should I ever...
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kaydee777
Feb 111 min read
February Snowday
It was the silence in the middle of the night which alerted me to what daylight would bring: snow's soft, puffy blanket covering...
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kaydee777
Feb 73 min read
Signs of spring
A cold front is blowing by right now. Last night's blustery weather system brought a welcome 0.25 inches of rain to the garden. The roof...
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kaydee777
Jan 262 min read
Releasing the dragon
With Lunar New Year (the second new moon after the northern winter/southern summer solstice) coming up on February 10th, much of January...
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kaydee777
Jan 243 min read
Mending nets
January in the northern hemisphere is possibly the hardest month for this native of the subtropical southern hemisphere. Though the...
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kaydee777
Jan 12 min read
Anthem to eternal return
The birds they sang At the break of day Start again I heard them say Don't dwell on what has passed away Or what is yet to be In the...
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kaydee777
Dec 25, 20233 min read
Apricity takes me outside
Making the most of apricity, the warmth of the winter sun (yes that's a real English word even though my phone's autocratic correct...
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kaydee777
Dec 23, 20232 min read
Best Christmas present ever
Christmas came early with a storm system which brought just under an inch of rain in a series of brief thunderstorms over a twelve hour...
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kaydee777
Dec 21, 20232 min read
Celebrating Solstice
I celebrated solstice with a little walk in the park, making the most of the thin early afternoon sun after an unusually foggy morning...
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kaydee777
Dec 19, 20231 min read
Lady Ladderback
For the past month to six weeks I have been enjoying the company of a female Ladderback Woodpecker (Dryobates scalaris) who has been...
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kaydee777
Dec 18, 20231 min read
Aloha kakahiaka*
Good morning sky! Good morning clouds! Good morning sun! Good morning mountain! Good morning desert. Good morning New Mexico! Good...
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kaydee777
Dec 17, 20233 min read
Sunday funday
With the final market of 2023 done, there's a "school's out" sense of release, though the first market of 2024 is only three weeks away....
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