Welcome to my website! I post a note here every Sunday night about life in New Mexico, including gardening travails and writing news. Drop me a line with any suggestions, complaints, or poetry commissions—payment required in advance; homemade jam accepted in lieu of cash.
What's New - June 28, 2009:
All week long I have continued to obsess over the possibilities of forest gardening in this strange climate. Yesterday I visited another local garden, and once again my mind is spinning with amazing plants. Cornelian cherries, goumi, serviceberries... Who knew there were all these species to choose from, many of which are drought tolerant, all of which make leaves and food? Anyway, one side effect of the obsession is that for the first time in eleven years, New Mexico feels like native soil. It feels like a location on Earth, rather than some beautiful but alien planet. I used to look around and see only landscape and scenery. Now there's a sense of standing on real, actual dirt, the wellspring, the source. This particular source just needs a little resuscitation, that's all. Which is why, if you'd happened to drive past the house recently, you might have noticed a cloud of straw particulates in the area I was mulching. Or you might have seen me staring dumbly at the mostly barren yard, clutching a pencil and a pad of graph paper. Otherwise I was probably inside surfing the web for tree vendors, or working on my spreadsheet wishlist of seeds and saplings.
In other news, our TV is on the fritz, so much so that Spencer has taken it apart and is, at this moment, leaning deep within the innards of the thing. Yes, he is actually trying to fix an electronic device, rather than just chucking it and buying a new one. What a man. He has so far found one moth, one flying ant, and a spider who chose an ill-advised location for a web. The prognosis for repair appears grim, but I'm getting at least as much entertainment value out of watching this procedure as I would by watching Magnum P.I.
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