NOMAD DREAMING

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...

The last bowl of beautiful pomegranates has been brought in off the three young shrubs in the southern front garden area, where they were...

Well, truth be told, not quite conquered, but at least my second Southwest Print Fiesta Print Market is done. This year's celebration of...

And just like that it is autumn.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me? Leonard Cohen Ganesha is discovered enjoying the daisies in the suddenly wild...

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...

Began carving a new printing block today, thinking about the blue water lilies (Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea) that grew on a dam...

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...

It doesn't bring much rain to the post summer garden, but an exquisite luminosity attends a sunset thunderstorm over Turtleback Mountain...

A Passerina caerulea ( Blue grosbeak) visited the birdbath today. He (yes this handsome visitor is the male version) seemed to hang...

Sunday's early morning desert food foraging yielded samples of prickly pear tuna gleaned from neighbours who don’t want their cactus...

My mail order saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) bulbs have arrived. Now the challenge is to decide where to plant them. Though that's a...