This year’s hot and dry weather has caused the garden to explode earlier than it usually does. When I returned from picking everything that was ripe, I realized that I had all the ingredients for caponata. Caponata is a Sicilian dish similar to the Provençal dish ratatouille which also features eggplant and tomatoes as the […]
Summer
Capitol Reef National Park
“If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.” Terry Tempest Williams The true meaning of the term […]
Canyonlands and Dead Horse Point
“Amazing!” a British voice said next to me. I turned and came face to face with someone I had met a few days earlier while photographing in Monument Valley. I’ve often wondered what the odds are of meeting someone again while on a long trip and this was actually the first time it happened. Sure, […]