NOMAD DREAMING

Green eggs. No ham. Well not really eggs either but beans. Fava beans ( Vicia faba aka Broad Beans) in flower and setting pods. These...

" There is another world, but it is in this one " Patrick White in The Solid Mandala. There's a fairly large glass spice shaker on a...

Turns out it isn't just the fruit trees. Wandering the outback in yesterday's sunrise, attempting to convince my body that the time...

` When I arrived at my reserved campsite at River Island State Park, on the Colorado River just south of Parker Lake, I decided to sleep...

Made Nogales over night Through the desert in the yellow light Missing everything I left behind Will they see me coming? Do they know I'm...

What a difference 5 or 6 days make! I came back from a little road-trip (later on that) to find the garden had seized the day and got on...

The signs are hard to read, cracked and weathered, aged by the harsh desert conditions. Though I like to bring my visitors (should I ever...

It was the silence in the middle of the night which alerted me to what daylight would bring: snow's soft, puffy blanket covering...

A cold front is blowing by right now. Last night's blustery weather system brought a welcome 0.25 inches of rain to the garden. The roof...

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...