Well, this is it! The girls and i are off on a wild state park camping trip up to Virginia for two weeks! The trip began with a heart-stopping incident where the car refused to start, or even turn over. It had just been in for an oil change and check the day before, and…
Lime Basil Pesto
I write here from the garden this evening – the sounds of the chorus of cicadas swell in the trees, and make the whole world alive with sound. The sun is setting, still bright at the edges, with small clouds like little golden fairy castles floating above the pines. It isn’t quite gloaming yet, but…
Summer Eggplant Curry With Millet Dumplings
Midsummer is such a strange time – just like the winter solstice, when you can faintly feel the little flicker of light behind the darkness, here you can sense the dark shadows behind the stark brightness of summer. The garden is still beautiful, even in the middle of summer. This year it has been the…
Midsummer’s Homecoming
As soon as I got home, everyone rushed over to me, barking and wriggling and glad. It was wonderful to wake up at night again and hear other people breathing, to feel the dogs walking on the deck outside, scratching and playing, to have my favorite kitty Ginger snuggled purring next to me, and to…
Travel Journal 5: The Rose Garden
My last day – i was busy with an art project and packing, so made just a short excursion out to stretch my legs to the Harvey Cornell Rose Park. Gosh, i had totally forgotten what it’s like to walk somewhere on your own. Honking horns, men at stop lights mumbling creepy unintelligible things things…
Travel Journal 4: Bugs and Gravestones
My friend Danica unfortunately had to leave yesterday morning due to a severe migraine, but i stayed on for the last two days alone. Such a strange sensation, being alone! I’m not used to it. It’s strange having experiences and no one to share them with. It WAS very peaceful and i got a lot…
Travel Journal 3: Chapels and Roses
We spent the day touring and shopping for the children back home. It’s funny how we are so used to doing everything for our children, that now without them it’s a little like being lost. When we see pinecones on the ground, or the cottonwood fluff we reminisce about how much they would enjoy collecting…
Travel Journal : Pueblos and Petroglyphs
We spent a day hiking around at Bandelier National Monument. Several of the paths were closed for maintenance, but we were able to take a short trail. The landscape, of course, is beautiful, with many sculptured cliffs, twisty trees, and wildflowers. I see this little yellow flower everywhere, so I guess it is the New…
Travel Journal 1: Santa Fe, NM 2020
I flew into Santa Fe Regional Airport Saturday evening to meet a friend i haven’t seen in years since she moved away. The Air BnB we are staying in is beautiful and private, and the adobe walls give the place a wonderful, snug feeling. It was a bit of a fiasco at first, because the…
Grape Flower Soda
The fair pastures are growing and growing, still silver-crested with daisy fleabane, white under the silver-lined clouds, heavy with thunder, that wander over the sky. The air is so humid it hangs like a mist around lights, and i feel like I’m gulping water when i breathe. The ubiquitous sand sticks to everything – feet,…
Parsley Aioli
I can’t even remember such a mild and lovely spring. April and May are usually scorching hot, but this year day after day was like a golden sunflower turning toward the heavenly blue each shining hour, and the nights were as cool as cream. The vegetables are piling up in the garden. I have parsley…
A Garden Tour Spring 2020
Can I show you my garden? This is, beyond a shadow, the most beautiful, flower-filled, viney, better-homes-and-gardens, fairy dust, glossy magazine centerfold, rockstar, dreamboat, fairest-of-them-all, wish-upon-a-star, garden of dreams garden than I’ve ever grown before…. I took first-planted pictures to include, so you can see how it has grown! Here it is now: These are…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 