trees

October 5, 2024

Nuts to This

I continued prying nuts as my fingers grew stickier. No worries–the pitch had to be good for my skin. Continue reading

firewood, high desert mesas, memoir, Navajo pinon nut collecting, New Mexico, pinion nuts, pinon nut gathering, pinon trees, self-discovery, Southwest

May 3, 2022

A battle ensued. The individual edible flowers were interconnected with “tendons” that anchored them to the spiky peel and pithy center, and I had to slice and tug and rip and curse to get the flowers out. Continue reading

Food, India, memoir, travel, trees

exotic fruit, India, jack tree, jackfruit, killer fruit, packrat, rabbit food, spikey rinds

August 12, 2021

Wild Bounty

Within minutes we were nearly tripping over (not from) all kinds of fungi. Continue reading

bolete mushrooms, family, Food, mushroom hunting, trees, wild mushrooms

bolete mushroom, chanterelle, Family Outing, Mothers and Sons, Wild Mushroom Hunting

July 27, 2021

The Ash Tree of My Childhood

They never knew I was there, hidden in the branches of the ash tree, wondering what it would be like to scamper like a squirrel or crawl like a beetle. Continue reading

animals, flying, memoir, secrets, trees

ash tree, childhood, flying, hiding, memoir, squirrels, tree climbing, trees

Nuts to This

Wrestling a Jackfruit

Wild Bounty

The Ash Tree of My Childhood