Category Native plants

Glow

February 17, 2010 · by · in Breads, Cheyenne, Edible plants, food, Janine, Murgatroid, Native plants, Plants in Ordinary, Preserves, Soups · 4 Comments

Charcoal clouds hover, too high to drop their load just yet, but they darken and grow heavier with every step I take. Soon. The clouds barely move, and the air here, on the ground, is still. There’s something about the light on an overcast day. Every leaf, twig and flower is vibrant with texture and […]

Red

January 16, 2006 · by · in Animals in Ordinary, Aunt Rind, Birds, Field crops, Jacob, Jonathon, June, Kami, Marita, Mary, Native plants, Orchards/fruit trees, The land, The twins, Trees, Wild animals · 1 Comment

Momentarily lucid, I smell scat–fox. Where? I raise my head, but the tears come all the more. Alone here on the open hills, I wail, and on the in-breath, that scat again.

Morn

October 14, 2005 · by · in Companion animals, Healing-medicine, Murgatroid, Native plants, Plants in Ordinary, Rose and Cheyenne's home, Rose's grandmother · 6 Comments

On my back, I give myself a Reiki treatment. Heat flows under my hands, spreading through skin, muscles, bones, organs–warmer and warmer, now hot. If I saw my body from above, would my abdomen glow like hot coals?

Threads

September 15, 2005 · by · in Balboa, Birds, Celebrations, Cheyenne, compost, Decorative plants, Exo-architecture, Farming/Gardening in Ordinary, food, Food preparation and preserving, Household variations/Coupling, Janine, Jasmine, Lotty, Meat, Native plants, Noah, Packer, Paintings/Mixed media, Plants in Ordinary, Rose and Cheyenne's home, Ruby, Sculpture, Tapestries/Quilts/Weavings/Basketry, The land, Village of Jasper, Weddings · Leave a comment

As we left, Lotty and I strung a garland of wild asters and daisies across the door, to be removed only by the bride and groom on the morrow, when they enter to spend their first night in their new home.

Sweat

August 4, 2005 · by · in Birds, David, Edible plants, Farming/Gardening in Ordinary, Healing-medicine, Native plants, Orchards/fruit trees, Ordinary water features, Sena, The land, Work practices · 4 Comments

Sweat trickles from the band round my brow into my ears and down my cheek. The back of my hand, as I wipe my face, smells of dirt, more sweat and the oils of well-used, well-kept tools.