Plants

Ravens and Magpies

by John Hamilton Farr on September 27, 2008 · 0 comments

in Animals, Consciousness, Earth, Garden of Eden, Nature, New Mexico, Plants, Taos

It is an astonishingly beautiful day today in northern New Mexico,especially right here in Llano Quemado, on the south side of Taos. Fall has arrived: the cottonwoods are starting to turn yellow, and the chamisa is blooming. There’s a stiff wind out of the east, creating strong updrafts along the edge of the mesa, where [...]

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Good Medicine

by John Hamilton Farr on September 6, 2008 · 1 comment

in Blogs, Earth, Garden of Eden, Nature, New Mexico, Plants, Spirit

Today’s blessed relief comes from Hecate, whose “Discussing the Undiscussible” post goes directly to my own concerns of late: Mystical experience, the experience of the mystic, what it is that mystics experience — that stuff is, almost by definition, idiomatic. It cannot be translated into any standard language, although it is possible that the language [...]

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Apricots & New Mexico

by John Hamilton Farr on July 19, 2008 · 4 comments

in Earth, Garden of Eden, Nature, New Mexico, Plants, Taos

Okay, here you go, growing just outside the door, practically. I make a mean apricot pie, or better yet, turnovers. Apricots growing right out of the ground! Don’t say I never gave you nuthin. No, these aren’t ripe yet, but we’re gonna have a ton of ‘em

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Natural Truth

by John Hamilton Farr on June 29, 2008 · 5 comments

in Consciousness, Garden of Eden, Nature, Plants

(This has to continue…) So there I am, sitting outside in one of the dead landlord’s aluminum lawn chairs with the cushions we bought at Wal-Mart. The chairs are fine, the cushions suck. You can still buy basic outdoor chairs this nice, but you have to hunt for them, and they won’t be at Wal-Mart. [...]

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Silence of the Man, Part II, w/ Tulips [Revised & Expanded]

by John Hamilton Farr on April 23, 2008 · 3 comments

in Animals, Consciousness, Earth, Garden of Eden, Nature, New Mexico, Personal, Plants

That last post on politics was an aberration, exactly what I’m struggling to avoid, and is no more. Back to nature, then, where more silence is probably required. Last night we had dinner with an older couple (yes, older than I am), people of very limited means, who somehow own a piece of land way [...]

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New FotoFeed Series: Canyon Climb

by John Hamilton Farr on October 6, 2007 · 2 comments

in Announcements, Art, Earth, New Mexico, Plants, Taos

A very impromptu headlong dash into the boonies late this afternoon provides the images for the latest FotoFeed series. I took this shot on the way back to show you what it looks like where I started from — if you could turn 180 degrees from this view, you’d be looking at rugged tree-covered mountains. [...]

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Where is Your Moon Tonight?

by John Hamilton Farr on September 17, 2007 · 3 comments

in Animals, Earth, Plants, Spirit

I just found this great page for all kinds of astronomical data from the United States Naval Observatory and added it to the sidebar. What a fantastic reference! There’s even a daily photo of the moon, which I find damn practical and potentially life-altering. The moon is dependable, like God. It punctuates its phases with [...]

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