by Bela Johnson | Oct 24, 2023 | Hawaii, high desert, lifestyle, musings, perspective, Uncategorized
We’ve been flung out over water like skipping stones,not on a lake or pond, but the long, wide, never endingturquoise blue ocean of the Pacific, soaring in a metaltube while everything that followed us arrived by bargeas these things do, back and forth to the...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 19, 2023 | high desert, lifestyle, nature, New Mexico, perspective, Uncategorized
Here in the mountains night creatures roam, day has notyet stretched rays of sunlight over the land, birds are stilltucked tightly into tree branches, tiny beaks buried in fluffybreast down, eyes closed as they breathe in rhythmstoo subtle to notice, dreaming dreams...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 24, 2023 | desert life, high desert, nature, Uncategorized, wildlife
Today I saw a mountain lion, absentwas my phone or camera, and I might nothave thought of those anyway, rapture beingthe single emotion that leapt in my heart; She was hunkered close to the ground,casting the dogs and me a backward glancewith a twitch of her long,...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 1, 2023 | gardening, high desert, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
As I watched and wept, my beautiful roses,planted deep and well in this nutrient-deficient soil, desert dirt; raised bedscreated by the former owner, filled witha mixture of native turf and whatever he could find, and I added dozens of bags of topsoiltilled in by...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 16, 2022 | high desert, lifestyle, nature, New Mexico, wildlife
Below zero, as indigo wings flap madly,honing in on empty feeders, and we arisewith the wonder that any warm bloodedcreature can survive, urged now to provisionsmall bellies dependent on habits that mustbe sustained, having begun this particular dancewhen we arrived...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 7, 2021 | high desert, lifestyle, nature, perspective, philosophy, Uncategorized
I am but one minute speckon the face of this earth,the same countenance reflectedback to me in field and forest,in the shriek of bats as wellas the sonar they emit,the whistling and bellow of elkas they descend from higher groundfor the winter, the piñon jays,sapphire...
