Earthship-Taos

After a nice walk to the Santa Fe Farmers' Market...and snack!!...next came a lovely Saturday drive to Taos to see the Earthships and of course we had to stop for a beer and food!!  GREAT scenery...rain storm rolling in over the mountains...cool breeze...can hardly get much better than that!!

Morning Walk Montage

...not REALLY a montage...I just like that word!!

Photos for your viewing pleasure....

Homesteading

...just stumbled across this inspirational family of ladies in Tennessee...
Homestead Blessings

...and who wouldn't want to spend time at The Farm??  :-D

life cycle
This is a special bike that’s not very good at listening to excuses, so it takes you exactly where you really want to go & if you kick & scream it makes you pedal harder & go up steeper hills until you’re too out of breath to complain & after awhile, if you’re lucky, you start to see that it doesn’t really matter if you laugh or cry, because it just wants to ride like the wind.

words of comfort
There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling rain & remember it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

...song of the day...Raise 'em up

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!!