Iām trying my hand at Hopi Red Dye amaranth too. First time actually. Let me know if you have any tips!
The right is now totally cool with unelected bureaucrats
Your San Pedros look great too. Iām propagating about a dozen cuttings currentlyā¦outsideā¦which I know is unfair. One of a handful of perks of living in the desert I guess
Quercus gambelii? They look so good! I love western oaks
The sunsets this time of year. But also ready for January to be over already.

Your saltwater pool will be in tip top shape in no time at all! š JK. I have been thinking about hydroponics here in the desert. I enjoy learning about your journey
Just beautiful. My lantana are all shadows of their summer selves in the desert winter. A few more weeks and they will start to take off.
One of my favorite creatures
I have a goal this year to read 50 books. Just finished the first one: Cactus Country by Zoe Bossiere. Next up: House of Rain by Craig Childs. #bookstr
This is the way! Itās how I started 12 years ago. Though Iāve had some breaks along the way, Iāve never really stopped. Ran two marathons. But mostly I just like to jog anymore.
My favorite recent sci fi trilogy is Anne Leckieās ancillary series. The setup is wild (powerful ship AI ends up in human body and seeks to overthrow the emperor) and the story does not abate while casting light on some important contemporary themes: how we deal with injustice, what makes a life and what makes a life worth protecting, how should we understand freedom and technology, etc. I think about it all the time. This is something that good science fiction does well: takes a salient question (how should we treat people that arenāt like us?) and casts it in a new, otherworldly light. At its best it asks us to rethink our own relationship to the world. While Iām on it, another series that does this really well is Adrian Tchaikovksyās Children of Time series. Totally transformed how I see and interact with spiders!
This is a really brilliant way of getting your ratios right. I once had a hot compost pile. It felt like achieving nirvana. Has never happened since! Just the slow grind of stuff becoming other stuff. But Iāll never forget that hot pile! Ha!
āI too am not a bit tamed. I too am untranslatable.ā
Got Whitman on the brain these last few days as I think about the wild gardens Iāve known and grown.
#nature #gardenstr

Thank youāI appreciate your insight. Thatās a good point about just posting it all on here anyway. Iām so conditioned by legacy social media that the thought of long form posting here seems like a lotābut on the other hand this thing is what we make it. People can always mute me!





Just caught this mother fucker doing bits in the garden. #GardenStr


