It’s hot. Spring has flashed to summer with the turn of a switch. Dawn comes with still seas and air that carries the heavy scent of salted water. From my writing perch, I watch orioles dash palm to palm, nipping at dried fronds for nesting materials. Small hummingbirds lap at red flowers, doves coo from [...]
Archive for the ‘Gardens/Plants’ Category
Hot Sultry Mornings
Posted: May 16, 2012 in Baja Living, Beach Dogs, Birds, Buster, Casa de Catalina, Gardens/Plants, Loreto, Sea of Cortez, Sunrises2
… too much time in baja! ….
Posted: October 13, 2011 in Baja Living, Beach Dogs, Casa de Catalina, Environment, Family & Friends, Food, Gardens/Plants, Loreto, Sea of Cortez, Sunrises(coming round again) You my have spent too much time in Baja if: You open the refrigerator and are stunned it’s not filled with Coronas. You can’t drink anything unless it has a slice of lime. It’s not a meal without salsa fresca and chips. You greet everyone with “Hola” or “Buenas Dias”. You keep [...]
Casa Baja Luna for Rent
Posted: April 24, 2011 in Baja Living, Family & Friends, Gardens/Plants, San Juanico, Scorpion Bay, SurfingTags: San Juanico, Scorpion Bay Rental, Surfing
Good friends Cynthia & Cal have reason to be stateside for the summer, and are offering their wonderful San Juanico home for rent. It’s a fabulous 2 bedroom main house with rooftop view deck and bar – perfect for entertaining. There is a separate casita with private bath and lovely gardens. Lucky the person who [...]
the call of dove, the dart and dash of orioles in the palms, a flotilla of small grebes .. sea like a mirror – so still – and the gentle roll of water on beach stones .. high cirrus clouds striate the blue and an odd fog bank floats between the beach and the island [...]
Great Baja Girlfriends!
Posted: January 30, 2011 in Baja Living, Family & Friends, Food, Gardens/Plants, San Juanico, SurfingTags: cooking, cynthia wagstaff, gourmet meals, organic gardening
Figures that I’d meet friends for the ‘rest of my life’ in sleepy towns south of the border. On a surfing safari to San Juanico, a beautiful blonde approached me at pizza dinner, claiming that for sure she knew me. I was taken aback, but she was so emphatic – almost as sure as I [...]
August Thunderheads
Posted: August 28, 2010 in Baja Living, Casa de Catalina, Gardens/Plants, WeatherSultry summer days with the humidity almost as high as the water. The skies open to wonder and as the winds pick up, the chance of shower increases by the hour. Everyone drips and whines about the temperatures, yet the summer is so beautiful. The easy days of spring have given way to the late [...]
One of my favorite views : South of Mulege, past Conception Bay, up and over the pass and out across the valley towards Loreto. The Sierra Gigantica begins to rise to the west and the scent of sea wafts lightly over the parched desert plateau. All around beauty as tall cardon continue their reach toward [...]
Gardens in the Desert
Posted: May 10, 2010 in Baja Living, Birds, Gardens/Plants, LoretoTags: Baja California Sur, Buster, El Jardin, Orange Groves, San Quintin
“The Desert Dreams of Water” is the name of a series of photographs I took in different desert locations. My experience of the dried earth in sparsely vegetated areas of the desert is that the dream of water is never more than a breath away. During and after a rain storm, the earth opens up [...]
repair/replanting
Posted: April 17, 2010 in Baja Living, Birds, Casa de Catalina, Gardens/Plants, LoretoIt’s taken 10 days, five city officials, two layers, one environmentalist, extraordinary patience, and strained relationships with neighbors, but at last, the city has blessed our ‘replanting’ plans which beautify the community walkway, provide a modicum of privacy to my home, and a support a fledgling bird habitat. And along with the blessings was an [...]
The first time I met Cynthia, she was sure she already knew me. We were sitting in the pizza restaurant in San Juanico, and while she sure seemed like someone I ought to know, I couldn’t find a memory to connect us. We chatted back and forth, and voila – she was from Sun Valley, [...]
