by Carolyn M. Crane | Jun 8, 2012 | Abbey Country, Back Yard Days, photographs, Sustainability |
Hummer has been slang for hummingbird since 1868, when Titus Fey Cronise used the term in The Natural Wealth of California. For birders, the term refers to one of dozens of species of hummingbirds rather than obscenely big cars or bedroom frolics. Having spent some...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 21, 2012 | Abbey Country, Back Yard Days, photographs |
“I’m sure the way to enjoy life is to live in obscurity with frequent escapades” –Freya Stark, late 19th Century explorer Cochise County: May 12, 2012 I arrived at the airport near my mom’s house with Tony the Amazing Tour Guide and...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 11, 2012 | Abbey Country, photographs, Politics |
Cochise County, Arizona I’ve been visiting here for over twenty years, since my parents left the Sierra Nevada foothills community we shared and started a new life here in Abbey Country. For many years, my dad would take us down to Agua Prieta for a fun walk and...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 5, 2012 | Back Yard Days, photographs |
It was May Day, the day before I left for Abbey Country, and from there back to Nevada City. I won’t return to the farm for a month. So much to do, of course, but a perfect day to do none of it. A perfect Back Yard Day, as we call it. We were not born farmers;...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 5, 2012 | Back Yard Days, Friends of Bloody Run Creek, photographs
late April in the Sierra: Recently three of the four Friends of Bloody Run Creek drove to a few of the crossings we knew to check on the creek. The Wilderness Wino was out of town, but Mr. Lightcap and I and our dog Elvis were ready for action.
by Carolyn M. Crane | Apr 13, 2012 | Back Yard Days, photographs |
It must be April in the mountains. “It’s not spring until it snows on the dogwood blossoms,” the old timers up here say. It’s a good day to make chicken soup and snickerdoodles, leaf through seed catalogs and neglected ideas.
