Spring Garden 2015

Blackberries are flowering, potatoes are showing in the new bed, and the bees just LOVE the buckwheat flowers.

Irises are blooming everywhere.

The palm keeps growing...I wish it was a date palm!!

The kiwis and perennial runner beans will need some trellising.

Hoping the pruned fig and loquat trees will produce better this year. This is a "reclaimed" bed that used to be filled with weeds, cactus, some cannas and lots of wild sunflowers. 

The outdoor shower/laundry area.

Cover crops, spring wheat and potatoes loved the spring rains.

The herb/flower circle bed is temporarily covered in wild sunflowers!!...that will soon be remedied. 

Looking forward to a good harvest of onions.

Many compost piles are ready for sifting.

Your Sweet Arrival

It's Been a Long Time Coming....1977 performance...for you my birthday girl...your sweet arrival in my life was WONDERFUL!!

These are little packets of light & you need to plant them early in the year & remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning & it's not until later that you see how beautiful they really are. Packets of Light

Mr. Morgan's Last Love:
-You know when you love something so much you start to hate it?
-Yes.
-Is that what happened to you and your books?
-I stopped looking at my books when I stopped loving life.
-Why did you stop loving life?
-Well, you don't love life itself. You love... places, animals, people, memories, food, literature, music. And sometimes you meet someone... who requires all the love you have to give. And if you lose that someone, you think everything else is gonna stop too. But everything else just keeps on going. Giraudoux said, you can miss a single being, even though you are surrounded by countless others. Those people are like extras. They cloud your vision. They are a meaningless crowd. They are an unwelcome distraction. So you seek oblivion in solitude. But solitude only makes you wither.

Leafy Pizza

On the Road Again.....loving the gypsy mode....

There are times when I have no idea what comes next and it's the thing I've come to love most about being alive: leaning in to hear the invitation of each day and feeling my whole body melt when I say yes, yes, yes. Invitation of the Day

Leafy Pizza...this is a giraffe bringing a hostess gift of juicy leaf pizza because he is tired of there never being anything he can eat at these functions.  ...OMG...YES...SO TRUE!!  :-D

Helping Friends and Family understand the whole-foods, starch-based McDougall Diet.....

Do you know your dosha(s)??  You can take Prakriti and Vikriti tests......

No big surprise for me!!  The 5 Love Languages.....
a=5--words of affection
b=7--quality of time
c=1--gifts
d=8--acts of service
e=9--physical touch

Community and Stuff

Community in an Eco Village....

Community...Rich Roll & Julie Piatt

An intentional family unit...wishing like-minded, loving, complimentary folks to surround and enrich each of your lives.  St. Vincent...an enjoyable and inspiring movie.

“I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.
It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.”
― robert m drake

...and mon cher...remembering Valentine's Days from years past...dancing...many thanks for the gift...Dancing at the Harvest Moon...and 11 hours of beautiful sounds for your yogic self!!

Winter Garden

The garden in winter....here we go again....

For our Daughters--Happy 2015

Lifetime: We're here to end it I said, & she said. No, we're here to begin it & then she turned & opened her arms, & everywhere I could see there were people, like bright birds calling with a thousand voices & suddenly I understood. Here is where it begins with all of us. Together giving our daughters a world worth loving for a lifetime to come.

Learning to Love: I see you walking slowly through the world, learning to love everything again for the first time & I want to hold you and say exactly the words you need to hear, because I have been there, too & I know the courage it takes to go on when your every breath aches.

Love not infatuation....I did not demand that he become my Great Emancipator or my Source of All Life, nor did I immediately vanish into that man's chest cavity like a twisted, unrecognizable, parasitical homunculus. During our long period of courtship, I remained intact within my own personality, and I allowed myself to meet Felipe for who he was...I have figured out that he cannot complete me, even if he wanted to...I can actually tell now where I end and where somebody else begins.  Elizabeth Gilbert...Committed

...and here we go...On the road again...Bob Seger

Ma Grande

Happy Birthday Ma Grande.....1985!!  We sat at the edge of the world & you asked me why & though a thousand things came to mind, underneath them all a quiet voice was saying because you remind me of everything in this world to love....the reason why....

She said she usually cried at least once a day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short....bittersweet....

I Want To Know What Love Is


Eskimo Cookies--her favorites!!
¾ cup vegan buttery sticks
¾ cup organic sugar
1 Tablespoon water
½ teaspoon vanilla
3 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
2 cup quick oatmeal
Powdered sugar
Put "butter" in a large bowl and let stand until soft.   Beat well.  Add sugar and mix well.  Mix in water, vanilla and cocoa.  Mix in oats.  Keep in refrigerator overnight.  Shape into small balls and roll in powdered sugar.  Store in the refrigerator.