Category Archives: photography

The Firstest Snowfall

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It is about waking up to a joyful surprise.

Went to sleep hearing the rainfall on the roof. It wasn’t cold, but late autumn coolness everywhere. The falling rain eased me into sleep.

Oh, that first snowfall of the winter…oh, that first snowfall of the year.

There’s nothing quite like it. Waking up to the first–clean, bright, yet not glossy–the best white.

Yesterday’s Autumn.

Yesterday like that.

Today…

Joy on high–the first snowfall!

In life, natural things have always attracted me, so I look for them and write about them

I am a nature lover and a landscape aficionado.

I am curious about all things green—the environment, plants, gardening, horticulture.

And because I am intrigued about the multi-cultural, mystical history of people and plants, I have lived in North Africa, Europe and the Arabian Peninsula.

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My Town of Birth

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Detroit

The great and prosperous 1950’s USA cities are now, 70 years later, looking more often like this.

Decaying, falling down, not habitable. The big tree of hard working people, families and jobs that supports great and prosperous cities–cut down in its prime. Sad.

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But what about cities that still thrive after centuries–like Tangier, Morocco? Check out Tangier Gardens for an inside look–the ebook is free at Smashwords.

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My Secret Pleasure

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My secret pleasure? I find it when I see clouds forming and escaping from the mountains.

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When the temperature, humidity and barometric pressure are amenable, I can see the mountains breathing.

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This pleasure from nature, the landscape, the topography, the plants…that is the heart of CJ’s discoveries in my novel, Tangier Gardens, where the student becomes mesmerized by the northwest Africa landscape and Tangier gardens. Interested? Buy the book.

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Almonds and wild flowers

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The landscape of Tangier Gardens

This almond orchard grows in Morocco. Soils are rich and because of hydroelectric dams, water for agriculture is plentiful north of the Middle Atlas.

This landscape attracted CJ; but the landscape gave root to elements that undid CJ.

Read about how he reacted to these landscape challenges in Tangier Gardens. 

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Les Arômes du Maroc

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Mimosa and narcissus.

Balancing, cleansing, energising, relaxing, uplifting…we can all do with some of that.

Acacia dealbata–it grows like a native in the northern third of Morocco; and, in spring, you can always find its cut flowers, fresh from the bled (countryside), being sold by Rif ladies in Tangier.

But CJ had another take on mimosa when he got this close to it.

CJ reckoned when you get this close to a flower, it is because the flower has invited you. That invitation is the key that unlocks a portal–a paranormal portal.

Don’t believe me? Read his story, his take on plants in Tangier Gardens.

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Moroccan medina water fountains

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The book? Tangier Gardens.

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This is a typical Moroccan medina water fountain that, in Tangier Gardens, CJ was planning to study. Why?

Because these beautifully tiled fountains were local community nodes for daily gathering of water to use at home. Everyone felt and knew the importance of water supplied by these beautiful fountains.

In Tangier Gardens CJ documents his attempt to study these community landmarks–and the strange challenges he faced.
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Tangier riad?

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This is a Tangier medina riad.

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A small courtyard garden, as we in the USA would say. A garden surrounded by the house–your home.

In CJ’s view, it is an excellent, safe and intimate space to get close to plants.

Traditionally it is a practical place for edible plants, medicinal plants, fragrant plants, beautiful plants–and it doesn’t require much water. What’s wrong with that?

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