Growing tobacco for the first time this year. Hard to start but now that it’s established it’s really vigorous. The NV sun is a bit much for it, partial shade seems to be the thing. #garden #summer #gardening #growyourown

Beautiful Nevada wild Palomino. #wildhorses #horse #wildhorse

Posting this Great Basin Collared Lizard on World Lizard Day (today). #lizard #worldlizardday

A high-desert rain shower in Nevada’s Singatse range.

Scotch Bonnet!! #summertime #garden #gardening #hotpepper

Finally got a baby watermelon! #summertime #gardening #garden

I bought this Jamaican Mushroom 🍄 last year and overwintered it in the house. This was supposed to be Scotch Bonnet but I was a victim of Bonnie’s Peppergate 2025. These don’t get enough love, they’re fruity, smokey, and not too hot. #peppers #gardening #peppergate #scotchbonnet #garden

That’s a GREAT book! Here’s a version rescued from a small-town military library in rural Nevada. A little worse for the wear but not too many of these versions even survived. Thanks for your post! #tolkien #TheHobbit

Cool Cooper’s Hawk (bad pic) in the Harbor Freight parking lot. #birdoftheday #birding #coopershawk

Completed my 33rd book from the Le Monde 100 Books of the Century. I use it as a semi-developmental reading list. It’s a life goal to complete it, the first 33 took me 6 years (plenty of off-list reading too). #reading #book #booksky #literature

Red Tailed hawk watching the sun rise.

Coral Rubble masonry at the George Washington house in Bridgetown Barbados. The original builders used local coral, lime-sand mortar, English brick arrises, and lime plastering. Built with the use of slave-labor ca. 1710. Really cool place to visit. GW rented a room here 1751-1752

#BirdoftheDay #LongBeaks #birdsky #birds Here is a Wilson’s Snipe for Long Beak bird-of-the-day. Taken in Washoe Valley NV.

Finished this book a couple days ago-I learned about it from Obama’s 2025 winter list. This book is a strange but enthralling allegorical whaling tale. I literally couldn’t put it down but I’m still wondering what I read. Definitely worth picking up. #booksky #reading

Another pic from today! Bald Eagle with freshly-snowed Carson Range backdrop. #birding #birdsky

It was a good day birding in the Great Basin! Bald Eagle X2 Canada Goose Black Necked Stilt Greater Yellowleg Mallards Common Merganser Wilsons Snipe Common Kestrel Red-Tailed Hawk Northern Flicker Black Billed Magpie #birding #birdsky

I’ve been working on my early Jack Londons. It’s a treasure hunt every time I’m at a used bookstore.

I couldn’t agree more

Pulled some Jamaican Mushroom peppers from the garden today! These are tasty but SO HOT 🥵

Beautiful juvenile Red Tailed Hawk at the ranch this evening.

Love the Sierra Nevada!

Princess Pearl

Current inventory of our Little Free Library. I built this 15? years ago for Mother’s day. The library’s getting a lot of use these days. 📚 #library #littlefreelibrary #books #reading

Harvesting perfectly ripe Himrod grapes. The vines are a little over 20 years old and produce prolifically. These are the best grapes I’ve ever tasted. We know fall is here when they’re ripe.

Our small garden has gifted us pounds of Chile de Arbol this season. They’re hotter than I like to eat fresh. Maybe ferment and make hot sauce?