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kaydee777
Dec 15, 20232 min read
Releasing to the wind/harvesting wild yeast
In addition to the usual handprinted cloth, seeds, botanical curiosities and spice mixes, I’m planning on offering some recent hand...
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kaydee777
Dec 3, 20232 min read
Still wrapping November. Kinda.
On the Saturday after the Feast of the Great Turkey Massacre, at the tail end of November, I did a somewhat disastrous art market. It was...
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kaydee777
Dec 3, 20231 min read
But is it hoar?
A fine filigree of frost decorates collard greens this morning when I go out just after sunrise with warm water to de-ice the birdbaths....
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kaydee777
Dec 2, 20233 min read
Opting out(side)
With the arrival of much cooler weather, I am once more immersing myself in landscape and enjoying the textures and subtle colour palette...
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kaydee777
Dec 1, 20232 min read
November gone and so was my blog post
Like the golden leaves on the cottonwood, November is suddenly gone. I realize there are things I did in November which didn't get shared...
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kaydee777
Nov 30, 20233 min read
Velvet or honey?
I share this little patch of Chihuahuan desert with mesquite trees. I don't know whether they are Honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) or...
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kaydee777
Nov 10, 20233 min read
Conquistador in search of gold for all the jackdaw reasons*
In the late 1870s the hope of finding silver drew the usual motley crew of dreamers, visionaries, outlaws, opportunists and mavericks to...
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kaydee777
Oct 30, 20234 min read
Crashing into frozen: earthly delights update
It seems that the brief 3 weeks or so of exquisite autumn gardening weather are over. It's been wonderful! Meteorologists, those crystal...
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kaydee777
Oct 29, 20232 min read
Saffron lights the victory march
For a long time, I've wanted to grow my own saffron spice. This autumn, doing so arrived at the top of my list of things to do with a...
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kaydee777
Oct 26, 20233 min read
Stalking colour: autumn shinrinyoku
This week I had to make a journey to the Big Smoke 75 miles south to pick up new eye glasses. So as not to waste the trip, en route back...
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kaydee777
Oct 24, 20232 min read
Cloud’s illusions
She seldom lays down a tablecloth, like her famous flat topped sister and New Natural Wonder of the World on the southern tip of the...
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kaydee777
Oct 22, 20232 min read
A fruit full desert
The last bowl of beautiful pomegranates has been brought in off the three young shrubs in the southern front garden area, where they were...
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kaydee777
Oct 15, 20233 min read
Veni, vidi, vici
Well, truth be told, not quite conquered, but at least my second Southwest Print Fiesta Print Market is done. This year's celebration of...
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kaydee777
Sep 24, 20232 min read
Sthira and sukha: the art and science of stalking balance
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me? Leonard Cohen Ganesha is discovered enjoying the daisies in the suddenly wild...
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kaydee777
Sep 23, 20233 min read
A complicated blue lotus heritage
The first test print of the brand new water lily block shows it still needs a bit of cleanup. The design is a tiny, somewhat obscure...
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kaydee777
Sep 21, 20232 min read
Saffron eyes gleaming
Began carving a new printing block today, thinking about the blue water lilies (Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea) that grew on a dam...
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kaydee777
Sep 13, 20232 min read
And then it rained
Delivered mostly in the form of a rambunctious pre-dawn sound and light show of a gullywasher, we finally got rain. At 1.4 inches...
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kaydee777
Sep 12, 20231 min read
Luminosity
It doesn't bring much rain to the post summer garden, but an exquisite luminosity attends a sunset thunderstorm over Turtleback Mountain...
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kaydee777
Sep 8, 20233 min read
A promise of rainbows: the bluebird of happiness and some prickly babes
A Passerina caerulea (Blue grosbeak) visited the birdbath today. He (yes this handsome visitor is the male version) seemed to hang around...
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