NOMAD DREAMING

Just two hours from the shala, by road, is the Carrizozo Malpaís , a spectacular landscape of black pahoehoe lava, believed to be among...

Midweek this week the Red Pony and I took to the road to explore some of the public lands in the area. Though I’ve been to them all...

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 Ah, the...

Lunar New Year is a spring festival in the northern hemisphere. What better way to celebrate than to launch a swarm, a flight, a cluster,...

[ trigger warning: this post might contain cultural commentary. Then again it might not. Define culture. Define commentary.] What does...

No need for a crystal ball to predict that there will be avian unhappiness today. The birds, including bossy Curve Billed Thrasher, are...

The early morning sun cast long shadows, the sky was wraparound cloudless bluebird blue and temperatures hung below freezing as I set out...

Finally: snow! For two days this week we woke to an usually overcast world and bittterly cold, subzero temperatures. Turtleback mountain...

With snow in the forecast for the first time in a very long time, I take an afternoon walk in nearby Elephant Butte Lake State Park. The...

After the carving And printing The lunar Year of the Earth Snake (begins with new moon - 29 January) four colour hand printed cards are...

Well actually it was just a very little walk in the woods. There’s a tradition where I live to do a First Day Hike across the over 110...

To ensure good luck or prosperity or because I can, my first meal of 2025 is homegrown black eyed peas (cowpeas/ Vigna ungulata to me)...

On a recent wander in the nearby Black Range, I spotted a cave that looked, from my vantage point, like a Paleolithic cave art eland or...

Nights have been bright and early mornings below freezing recently while the winter moon swells and wanes. Trees become Japanese...

It’s that time of year again when nighttime temperatures plummet and my household minions mutiny. Both the hot water heater and the heat...

Every time I go out to harvest a bunch of peppery arugula and mizuna greens I find the Indie-folk group, The East Pointer’s 2019 song,...

I lost a day this week to self induced fever dreams. Not knowing what the kakistocracy* will bring, I chose to submit to an annual Covid...

Even the sky seemed to want to scratch out something that day. The first Wednesday of November an early morning drive-by of news...

Having kept me up all night, just before sunrise I catch the full moon sneaking behind the apricot tree, slipping towards the western...

Coyotes sing at night in the desert. I don’t know if it’s their lovely wild ruckus or the very bright full moon making me restless...