I’ve made friends with the Timbisha Shoshone people who’ve called this amazing place home for centuries. One of their elders told me stories of underground cities, of giants, of animal spirits who show the way to water if they accept you as one with…
On an impulse I drove south. South for days. I came to the lowest place I could think of: Death Valley. After all, if one is at the lowest place, any move one makes has to be up! There’s just nowhere lower to go.…
Brief explanation: There is no art and there hasn’t been in quite a while. I can’t make myself “do” art. I end up staring at a piece of paper, tools, lino…whatever, spend four hours trying to “do” art, and end up throwing the thing…
Happy New Year everyone! I arrived home a couple days ago to a very quiet house. Too quiet, especially after the last few days! But it was also a really good time for me to do some reflecting and make some decisions about what…
This is Ruby the red bone coon hound. Our littles named her. She’s not exactly my dog, or Chloe’s or Kerstin’s (whose inspiration is the reason for Ruby), she is a collective family dog. She’s a puppy. A bit wild, a bit uncontrollable, a…
You know, it’s pretty rare for me to get here at the turning point of the seasons, but this year I managed just that. Four weeks ago, the trees were bare and the ground covered with frost, and today suddenly it’s practically summer! One…
Today is such a liminal day, isn’t it? On the threshold of the turning of the daylight, I can almost feel the coming spring. In amongst the bare trees are huge balls of bright green mistletoe reminding us that even in the bleak mid-winter,…
Hi again, I’ve just been looking thru my photos of the past week and, oh my word, we’ve done a lot. Also, because we’ve been so busy, I haven’t been keeping up with my posts, so now that we’re into October, I thought it…
Hi everyone, What a difference a day made. And then a week! This is the sun the day after my last post and smoke rolled into Vancouver from the interior, Washington and Oregon wildfires. Yikes! This was the state of the world at 10…
Hi everyone, This post is my regular (ahem) semi regular hello from Sunday night post except it’s the 2.0 version…the one where I wrote a post last Sunday but felt like I had nothing to say, (and the photos were pretty lame), and so…