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A Simple Walk Becomes Complicated
My new companion, a mixed-breed yellow dog named Dingo, really, really, likes to go out on walks. If I so much as start to put my shoes on, don a hat, or slip my wallet into my back pocket, she becomes...
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To The Charleston Bridge And Back
It was the evening of September 19th, last Thursday. Several of my musical cohorts had gathered at my apartment to play a few tunes. Of course these occasions are social as well as musical, and...
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High Water Abounding
I guess I forgot to post this! A selection of photos taken on a walk around Bisbee before the recent rains! A diaphanous Coprinus cluster, well-hydrated: Perhaps a species of Lepiota growing from...
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Clouds Over Sonora
I like the name of the Mexican state Sonora. It sounds musical, like the word sonorous,but the etymology is a bit confused. Was it just Spanish Catholic bullshit, perhaps derived from some female...
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Dog Paradise
This morning I was up early, as usual. I have a new resident in my apartment, a local musician who had been all but homeless before I offered him a spare bedroom, and this time it was with the full...
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Chinese Bass Project
I play music quite often here in Bisbee with various local musicians. My main instrument is the fiddle, and playing fiddle is second nature for me these days. Bisbee has quite a few fiddle players, and...
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Birth Of An Electric Bass
It may seem like I’m overextending myself, but the fact remains that while I’ve been working on the Chinese upright bass I’ve also been assembling the components of an electric five-string fretless...
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Agave Stalk Mystery
Last spring I felt the need of a walking stick. I thought a third leg would be helpful while negotiating steep canyon-sides and rocky washes. Luckily Southeast Arizona is well-supplied with several...
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Reina de la Noche in Cochise County
The landscape here in Southeast Arizona can appear a bit bleak late in the winter. As spring approached I naturally was eager to see which plants would green up first. There had been some nice rains...
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The Lizard King
A re-post from Facebook, where the post and accompanying photos drew quite a bit of attention: This afternoon as the sun was beginning to cast long shadows I encountered a Long-nosed Leopard Lizard...
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First Monsoon Storm!
This time of year residents of Southeast Arizona are weary of hot, dry days and clear blue skies. The rains almost always come by midsummer, but when? Monday evening (June 22nd) I was watching a storm...
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An Ocotillo, a Spider, and Doomed Ants
Yesterday afternoon I was out walking with my dog. The sky was overcast and the air was blessedly cool and humid. I squatted down to observe the new growth of an Ocotillo which I had planted some...
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Vegetative Construction Project
A re-post from Facebook: Look carefully at this photo. It looks like a jumble of colors and lines, but camouflaged within are a couple of recent Peniocereus greggii shoots, AKA La Reina de la Noche,...
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Rows In Collision
Years ago when I was a novice gardener I would carefully lay out planting rows with a tape-measure, stakes, and strings. I was likely influenced by OCD-ish book and magazine garden writers. These days...
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Spinach Unleashed
It can be difficult to anticipate future needs when growing vegetables for CSA box customers. Cultivated varieties of vegetables are bred to bear early, but even so, time creeps on inexorably and the...
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Afternoon Moth Visitor
A couple of days ago I was drinking a cup of coffee while I waited for my breakfast porridge to attain its perfect state of being. There have been a lot of moths around lately, and one of them had...
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Glass Fragment Found While Hoeing
Re-posted from Facebook: A couple of days ago, before this heat wave descended upon us, I was out in the Echoing Hope Ranch garden hoeing between cowpea rows. The soil was moist and friable due to a...
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A Pre-sunrise Photo, and Thoughts
Another re-post from Facebook: June Pre-sunrise Cluds This morning was blessedly cool, such a change from the hot afternoons lately. While my morning porridge was slowly simmering, I stepped outside to...
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Looking East as the Weather Changes
This photo is from a few days ago, when the possibility of some pre-monsoon rains was becoming evident. I had been cooking some ramen noodles with tuna that evening and I was waiting for the food to...
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Hot Saturday In The Borderlands
It was a hellaciously hot Saturday yesterday in Cochise County. I was at the Bisbee Farmer’s Market early, and met up with my musical buddy James Wahl. We talked about music session politics, always an...
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