See Previous | See Next This week the garden has been leaning strongly into soggy and brown, with some days warm enough to feel a bit like spring. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is a reminder that this is still January and more snow will be coming, sooner or later. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years concurs, and repeats this week’s glimpse of all the circular fencing my gardens are made of – my attempt to keep…
content warning: Marshall fire, community disasters, evacuation In my very first blog post, I mentioned that starting this blog was a sort-of resolution I made at the beginning of 2022 after the Marshall fire. This was a big fire that happened in my home town right after Christmas. We had been having a very warm, very dry winter up until that point, and that day it was very windy (very windy for a place where they test wind turbines because…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 2 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… They fill the valley rim-to-rim. A carpet of amethyst and ruby. And they wait for their bees. Or they wait for their scouts to come home. …Because…
See Previous | See Next This week the relatively abundant snow is melting, and depending on which way you look you can glimpse or imagine some pretty greenery underneath (Colorado is fundamentally brown). Some of my hellebore are champions at mimicking evergreens, and I thank them for it. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years reinforces the January theme of snow and/or brown – we’re lucky with a bit more moisture this year. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years…
My Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Stories (SSCS’s) are a series of stories that I started in 2018 as something to dabble with, but that I picked up in earnest in 2019. I’m a very slow writer, and at the end of 2018 I had just finished the first draft of my 2nd book. That meant that 2019 was staring down the barrel of a lot of revision time. I like revising, but I’m very slow at that too, and my first drafts…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is the first installment of my first SSCS, which stands for Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Story. I’ll say a little bit about this story-type of mine in a future post. For right now, you should just know: a) I’ll be putting out each (quite short) installment once each week, on Friday, until the story is done. (Sometime around July or August?) b) The SSCSs are all somewhat free-form and experimental, and…
See Next This is my first Weekly Garden snapshot for a project that I’ve been working on for a long time. For the past several years, I’ve been collecting pretty photos from around my garden every week, centered on Saturdays. I’ve always been curious to be able to see how things do and do not change over time, and these photos are my time capsule, where I can watch both the shifting of the seasons and how those seasons do…
Here is my first-ever blog post! It is going to be a very short post, because I am slow when it comes to learning and doing new things, and WordPress is definitely a new thing for me, and it is getting late…but I really want to get my first post posted today (January 1st) and not tomorrow! Last year, after the Marshall fire, my unofficial New Year’s resolution was that I wanted to finally start the blog I’d been thinking…