NOMAD DREAMING

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...

Though it's hard to tell the exact moment, the beautiful ruby coloured tuna (prickly pear fruit) on the outback opuntia seemed ready to...

"Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call...

Today's witness of the transmutation of night into day at Caballo Lake is all about birds. I launch in a rosy numinosity of almost...

More rose quartz than ruby, the season’s first pomegranate jewels, quintessential desert fruit, spill onto my plate today, sweet and...

The desert offered up a prickly Valentine this morning. Tuna aren't quite ready for picking yet, but when they are I have plans for...

The ripening figs are bagged against the birds. After noticing avian interest, I spent the early morning cool tying little drawstring...

Today began with a jalapeño lentil loaf (soaked green lentils blended with coconut flour, garlic, jalapeños and some liquid) filling the...

Some days I drink my first cup of tea at the lake, with a vessel and a paddle. Everyone has a favourite time of day. Mine is the liminal...

Noticing that today July 30th, is world embroidery day I thought to share one of my works in progress here. With the prevailing 100...

In memoriam Milan Kundera, brother in word and thought: "There is no perfection, only life" In these days of extreme heat, the best hours...

I do not often get invited to exhibit artworks in this little town, since I'm not much out there strutting my stuf,f preferring the...

"Freedom is something that dies unless it is used" Hunter S Thompson It's that time of year again here in the northern Chihuahuan desert:...

With temperatures in the hundreds (Fahrenheit) all this week, I took a little drive into Gila National Forest in the Black (Diablo)...