Back in mid-May, I was hankering for a walk out in nature – and chose the trail up above Spring Canyon park towards Dixon reservoir, about 10 minutes from my home. My back and body had been really hurting but I wanted to get out there. Some readers may know that I have a severe…
Category: Traveling
On Summer Solstice
On Summer Solstice Let there be a ceremony of Light in our hearts. Let our bodies move like sunflowers turn … turn, turning towards sun so there is this refracting, impossible burst, receiving, receiving it, and then Light bends, through deep recess, hiding places, stoney blocks of our histories: just like that flat out shining…
Incan Quinoa Salad with Roast Yams, Sweet Peppers, Black Beans, Lime and Chilies
Years ago, I’d been studying with indigenous healers from South America here in the states. A trip to their homeland had not quite manifested, but I had to get out adventuring somewhere. My solo camping trip to Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon inspired my spirit, and inspired this satisfying main dish salad. I made three hearty…
A Fish Tale ~ Colorado Kokanee Salmon
The alarm went off at 3:30 am and I truly leapt out of bed. Excited for an early morning adventure – I poured fresh brewed coffee into my mug, gathered my cooler and coat, then hit the road. I was driving through the dark morning hours up Highway 133 in southwest Colorado, making the right…
WordPress Photo Challenge – Extra Extra “Blue flag in the morning light”
This week (or on the tail end of last week!) “share a photo that has a little something extra: an unexpected visitor, or a tranquil landscape with a splash of color. A lone carrot in a sea of peas. Draw us in with a humorous detail, or find a photo with an added element that makes it an image only…
Strolling California … Lovely Markets and Other Treasures
Just home from a fantastic trip to San Francisco, Point Reyes, Stinson Beach, Napa and Sonoma deserves a small photo tribute, while I slowly return to life in Colorado … doing my best but still nearly speechless! (click on the first photo if you’d like a slideshow view) Of course, I am managing to savor luscious…
A Swirl, a Stack, a Plateful of Memories! or “I Love My Home, Planet Earth”
The bonds of friends live on in our hearts – sometimes, especially when we also have a memory of those last foods we prepared or shared together. Today I came across a bright sheaf of photos from the week before I moved from the North Fork Valley. Living to CELEBRATE WHAT IS – I simply…
Itsy Bitsy Spiders
Change is beginning to charge pretty unmistakably through my life! On June 30, one entire year since I began this blog with an incredible garden by my side, I will be moving away from the North Fork Valley. I have so many feelings, thoughts, words. And then – choose it to be love. Just love….
A Grilled Spaghetti Squash, with Fresh Pulled Ramps! Tuscany Style Influenced-by-Paul-Newman Dinner
It’s a precious time, really, to spend an evening relaxing, laughing and cooking with family, especially when they have a nice balcony, great grill, enthusiastic epicurean appetites, and a little wine to share…along with pleasant breezes and a long weekend. With the garden just beginning to pop, my contribution was a thick handful of ramps, two varieties of…
Mother’s Day Love: Or How to Eat Orange Olive Oil Cake with Fennel Sugar and Lingonberry Marmalatta
When you have an awesome, generous, thoughtful son and daughter-in-law combo like I, who live in the foodie paradise of Denver, Colorado, Mother’s Day Brunch becomes an exciting preparatory event whose journey is every bit as fun as the goal. Should we go to Rioja, Best Restaurant in Denver, whose chef Jennifer Jasinski just took the James Beard…
Just Before the Rain, or: When I Feel Fragile I Look to the Earth
My body feels fragile today. Human. Delicate. Unsettled. With love, and more than a little gratitude, I look to the earth: She always comforts me. With her intricacies, her breadth. And especially the details. All the glorious details. Though much has changed, since these perennials last sprouted, in my life, my heart – to see them…
The revolution is here: a brand new urban balcony garden
I have always been a rebel. You know, I liked coloring outside of the lines. I liked to explore the woods behind our house and catch butterflies, raise pet mice and chameleons waaayyy more than playing with dolls. Fast forward and you’ll see me getting arrested for civil disobedience at a nuclear rally when I was 20. The list goes on, within…
Nights on a Farm in Wyoming
I’ve been staying at a farmhouse in central Wyoming for a few days while working in Riverton – huge sky, hay and alfalfa fields, with a rippling blue line of mountains in the distance. Besides farming, the couple also hunts and fishes most of their own meat, including elk, deer, antelope, turkeys, rabbits and big horn sheep….
A Moving-in Celebration (and) Eating Local in Denver
This weekend was a greatly anticipated trip to Denver to see my son and daughter-in-law, their new place in the city (and their two dogs, a beagle and chihuahua mix, and cat, of course!) Coming from my garden in rural Colorado and with the cherries, apricots and peaches literally bouncing off the trees right now gave me…
Pachamama's Beautiful Food 