NOMAD DREAMING

Stalking turtles in late afternoon light on the strong, and willful, grey green god of a Rio Grande. it was a hard paddle upstream to...

Enchanted moon hanging out in the Desert Willow #moon #fullmoon #newmexico #casita #717NAsh

Desert archaic: line and design. #TorC #neighborhood

Oops. What an 8 thousand dollar reroof was meant to fix. There’s still a leak. Sigh. June 13th. #6thAvenueshala #roof #rain #renovation

Overflowing water tanks, streets raging torrential rivers sweeping everything loose into the Rio Grande, golfball sized hail pounding my plants, booming like cannon shot on the tin roof: just an afternoon thunderstorm, Chihauhauan desert style  #storm #rain #summer #weather #hail #TorC

Finally! June 13th passed NM State inspection for electricity. #6thavenueshala is now code compliant as far as electrical wiring and...

$2 junk store score: Mexican hand painted dinner plate. This folk art beauty is going on the wall. #secondhand #thriftstore #folkart...

The front gate cactus has the last waltz with the sun. Goodnight moon. Enchanted skies, edition June 2019 #717NAsh #casita #TorC #moon...

Kitchen alchemy: labneh (yoghurt cheese balls). Took the best part of a week. But so worth it. Made with goat milk yoghurt because goats!...

Last light on Turtleback Mountain #TorC #TurtlebackMountain

Electrical residing started May 22. Aaaand the electrician doing the work to restore the shala to healthy power was a woman!...

Not good on identifying butterflies, but this one, probably Vanessa cardui was spotted enjoying the newly dug earth where I sowed what I...

It’s Wesak: Buddha Purnima and the night is moonlit silver and indigo velvet, subtly perfumed by Desert Willow (chilopsis linearis)...

Dodge Matador circa 1950s. Contemplations on memory and forgetting. Silver City, NM, May 2019

Holding space for aqua yoga in 25 mph wind, 61 degree F ambient temps in an open pool was challenging in windy late May in the...

Dreams of waking up in India. Peacocks at dawn. Faywood Hotsprings- the desert oasis which helps clarify the vision Due to a connectivity...

Today’s milagro: from the earth of Little Cactus Ranch. Jai Ganesha! Hardly bigger than my thumbnail but I am going to read this as...

Unearthed while digging for the bean-field at the Little Cactus Ranch: tiny glass bottle, completely intact, rippled one side, smooth the...

My afternoon iced chai brewing: take one insipid Chai black teabag in my cupboard due to a poor shopping decision in a fit of longing for...

I don’t often see cloven hoof prints amongst the bird and little mammal tracks. Like snow, the sandy desert surface keeps no secrets....