NOMAD DREAMING

With Lunar New Year (the second new moon after the northern winter/southern summer solstice) coming up on February 10th, much of January...

January in the northern hemisphere is possibly the hardest month for this native of the subtropical southern hemisphere. Though the...

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...

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...

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...

I celebrated solstice with a little walk in the park, making the most of the thin early afternoon sun after an unusually foggy morning...

For the past month to six weeks I have been enjoying the company of a female Ladderback Woodpecker (Dryobates scalaris) who has been...

Good morning sky! Good morning clouds! Good morning sun! Good morning mountain! Good morning desert. Good morning New Mexico! Good...

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....

In addition to the usual handprinted cloth, seeds, botanical curiosities and spice mixes, I’m planning on offering some recent hand...

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...

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....

With the arrival of much cooler weather, I am once more immersing myself in landscape and enjoying the textures and subtle colour palette...

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...

I share this little patch of Chihuahuan desert with mesquite trees. I don't know whether they are Honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) or...

In the late 1870s the hope of finding silver drew the usual motley crew of dreamers, visionaries, outlaws, opportunists and mavericks to...

It seems that the brief 3 weeks or so of exquisite autumn gardening weather are over. It's been wonderful! Meteorologists, those crystal...

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...

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...

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...