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Solstice
The annual monsoons arrived a week or two early, on solstice, this year, with low, full-bellied licorice clouds. Humidity jumped from 10%...
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kaydee777
- Jun 17, 2022
- 2 min
Can’t always get what you want…
The hacienda accidentally got a new front door this week. There was nothing wrong (in my opinion) with the old front door. Yes, it was...
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kaydee777
- Jun 15, 2022
- 1 min
Do mermaids dream in seaweed flavour?
This week I’ve added a Japanese element to the spice and salt mix offerings at the Saturday farmers market stall: vegan furikake...
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kaydee777
- Jun 13, 2022
- 4 min
Sanctuary of delight
”A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that,...
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kaydee777
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Stocking the pantry
The first pods of pinto beans were found to be crackly and ready for harvest this week. Opening the pods reveals jewels: beautiful...
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kaydee777
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Cat amongst the violets.
At the plant nursery which I visited this week, I found a sleeping cat amongst the African Violets display. I restrained myself from...
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kaydee777
- Jun 6, 2022
- 1 min
The one that got away
A somewhat wounded pollinator visited this morning, spotted first on a sunflower out back. Not much later, they did a fly-by of the...
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kaydee777
- Jun 2, 2022
- 2 min
Imagine
When I pictured a garden in the Chihuahuan desert, sun ripened, sanyasi saffron orange apricots weighing down the limbs of the tree was...
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kaydee777
- Jun 1, 2022
- 2 min
Kitchen alchemy: fine dining
Experimented today with a lentil flatbread (chapatti) to go with my hummus and red cabbage, caraway sauerkraut main meal. Of course I...
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kaydee777
- May 30, 2022
- 2 min
Fruits and roots under a red sky
After producing flowers, then little round green berries (which I cut off and composted) some of the potato plants were looking a bit...
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kaydee777
- May 25, 2022
- 1 min
Adulting
I got to use one of the drawer full of free, government issue Covid-19 self testing kits this week. I was invited to a meal at a...
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kaydee777
- May 22, 2022
- 2 min
Getting my slice
Apple pie with my morning coffee today. Not because I’ve been baking, but because I traded a handprinted dish cloth for a pie at farmers...
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kaydee777
- May 18, 2022
- 2 min
Blooming Celebration
Bees make merry every morning now in the bread seed poppies, ensuring that a good supply of that wonderful baking ingredient will be...
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kaydee777
- May 17, 2022
- 2 min
Living through it
I was going to post pictures, today, of the full Flower Moon flowers in the Garden of Earthly Delights but the fine ash falling, eerie...
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kaydee777
- May 16, 2022
- 1 min
Moonstoried on rooftops mostly
Because there is so much smoke from wildfires in our atmosphere, this month’s full moonrise courted the drama, foreshadowing the eclipse....
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kaydee777
- May 13, 2022
- 1 min
Alchemy of earth and kitchen: embracing history.
This morning’s harvest: a whole lot of curly kale, 3 baby beets and a bunch of fat radishes. It has really been too hot this spring for...
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kaydee777
- May 12, 2022
- 1 min
Dances with wolf(berries)
A few months ago I came home from a plant nursery visit with a couple of Lycium barbarum aka Wolfberry or Goji berry plants. This morning...
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kaydee777
- May 12, 2022
- 1 min
Second generation
The self seeded Cosmos Bipinnatus certainly are doing some interesting things. Not only are they flowering much shorter than the 3 ft...
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kaydee777
- May 8, 2022
- 1 min
Blooming marvels
In the cool early morning, a lovely perfume leads me to discover the first flowers of the season offered by Madame Moonflower (Datura...
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kaydee777
- May 5, 2022
- 1 min
Breaking fast at the shala
Not enough for strawberry scones, which I was contemplating, this morning’s harvest of eight for infinity, sweet strawberries served as...
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