NOMAD DREAMING

Finally a monsoon storm! It came with ferocity, late afternoon a few days ago : thunder, lightning, wind, pelting hail and, at last!...

The sun had just slid over the horizon when I put in this morning, about half an hour later than usual, at Rock Canyon boat launch . I...

For Robert Beverly Brooks 1941-2024 Monsoon season mornings are the best. Immersion in the dance of light on water is sometimes all...

It is 82 (27 C) degrees at 6 am as the sun fires up the sky and going-to-seed sunflowers droop at the prospect of another scorching day....

There I was thinking I was growing my own parsley for tabbouleh and falafels but turns out I am growing it for butterflies. Black...

Another batch of baked falafel came out of the oven today. I’m still getting the hang of using my newest kitchen tool: a stainless steel...

With apricot harvest over for another year, the pantry is once again stocked with piquant and fruity apricot chutney. Move over Mrs Balls...

Birds have begun showing way too much interest in the ripening apricots, in spite of the trashy silver plastic twirlers I hung in the...

The starting gun for summer has sounded across the county I currently inhabit. Although it isn’t finished, one of my cool season garden...

Way back in winter when it was comfortable to do things outside in the sunshine, I occupied some pleasant hours making a snake on a piece...

As the apricots swell and turn from green to orange, there are signs of bird interest. Last year I used nets but, over the course of the...

The view from my bed these days. Who needs curtains when there are sunflowers to stand guard? It’s that time of year again when the bird...

I should probably have left them longer, but I pulled all the Red Norland potatoes this week. I was really craving potato and the plants...

February started the blooming in the Garden of Earthly Delights with the frothy fruit trees. March and April brought Illium and Iris (...

Sixteen of this stash of bushel basket gourds have gone to a gourd artist today. I laid them out in the driveway so he could select the...

Today’s haul of sugar snap peas was gobbled up quickly before the owl and the pussycat could get ideas about vessels for a (possibly...

A few days ago, I got to be part of Another Roadside Attraction* on the side of HWY60, just west of Magdalena New Mexico. (Pop: 821 as of...

Happy Freedom Day. For those who remember 27 April 1994 and the first democratic elections in South Africa, some pictures of from the...

This morning the back garden offered up a lovely harvest of Fava beans (Vicia faba) and young chenopodium (goosefoot) which are...

New pads are emerging on the purple prickly pear which was introduced to the front sidewalk as a single pad in early spring a year ago....