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Guacamole Power Couple
Volunteer Safflower
The colors of Safflower's waxy leaves faded after its springtime cameo, but its legacy of thorns pokes on.
¿Y dónde están las pipas?
This sunflower and its multiple flower heads provided us many hours of viewing pleasure this spring and seeds and seeds and seeds for the birds.
Little scissors in motion
Links · · New York Times
Lockdown is my second languish.
Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield. And it might be the dominant emotion of 2021.
Adam Grant: There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing
Wintry Panache
In this photograph, I am apree-see-ating nature with the wintry panache of a Chinese Pistache.
That Arizona Ash I’m So Fond Of
This is that Arizona Ash I'm so fond of.
New Year’s Day Portrait, 2021
Hiram and me, half-masked, New Year's Day, 2021
Radishes
Cuando andábamos cortando rábanos unos comíamos y otros dejabanos
Six months into this urban gardening busyness and all I know for certain is if you want a quick “win” (as they say), plant radish seeds in the ground or in pots, water regularly, and in five weeks you’ll have more of the crunchy taco condiments than you have refrigerator for.
Pack-O
Paco Pega, vinyl top hat enthusiast, bad pun, drug war casualty.
Do acorn squash taste like acorns?
The cashier wanted to know if acorn squash taste like acorns and I said more like pumpkins. Later I thought who am I to say when I don’t know what acorns taste like?