NOMAD DREAMING

To ensure good luck or prosperity or because I can, my first meal of 2025 is homegrown black eyed peas (cowpeas/ Vigna ungulata to me)...

On a recent wander in the nearby Black Range, I spotted a cave that looked, from my vantage point, like a Paleolithic cave art eland or...

Nights have been bright and early mornings below freezing recently while the winter moon swells and wanes. Trees become Japanese...

It’s that time of year again when nighttime temperatures plummet and my household minions mutiny. Both the hot water heater and the heat...

Every time I go out to harvest a bunch of peppery arugula and mizuna greens I find the Indie-folk group, The East Pointer’s 2019 song,...

I lost a day this week to self induced fever dreams. Not knowing what the kakistocracy* will bring, I chose to submit to an annual Covid...

Even the sky seemed to want to scratch out something that day. The first Wednesday of November an early morning drive-by of news...

Having kept me up all night, just before sunrise I catch the full moon sneaking behind the apricot tree, slipping towards the western...

Coyotes sing at night in the desert. I don’t know if it’s their lovely wild ruckus or the very bright full moon making me restless...

I haven’t had much of a food garden this year for various reasons including extended periods of extreme heat, drought and the dismal...

My friends, let’s grow up. Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here. Or if we truly haven’t noticed, let’s wake up and notice....

A mile or two north of the village of Jemez Springs is a 7000 year old natural geological phenomenon known as Soda Dam , though thanks to...

The phenologists were probably correct. The prolonged heat and drought and lack of sudden freeze have had an impact on autumn leaf color...

While the iris which was purchased as Coyote Ugly, and is blooming completely out of season, might actually not be Coyote Ugly since it...

“It’s been so unusually hot and dry. There won’t be good leaf color this year,” I kept reading while doing research into leaf peeping in...

“They aren’t going to come back” I had been thinking, almost reconciled to the saffron crocus ( Crocus sativus ) being lost to the...

Cooling on the rack today: a bunch of wobbly, misshapen versions of samosas, the quintessential Indian street food, which it turns out...

Eleven vintage suitcases of freshly block printed cloth and one small case of hand printed cards accompanied me this weekend for a...

While Florida battens down the hatches and evacuates ahead of mad bad Milton, it is perfect weather in the northern Chihuahuan desert....

Hello autumn light! Spider season is upon us. Cobwebs appear everywhere. I am grateful that they are snaring the biting gnats which are...