Desert nose, no bounds

my bathroom--Barbara told my father and i to pee in the sink cause it flows out to the garden(plus no toilet)


SOLAR PANELS they 've got 10 here and produce more electricity than they can store or use!!!
Barbara calls them cute cause they turn with the sun as it moves,like Sunflowers.


the front porch awaiting shade screens and desert passion vines


a side courtyard next to an old cottage

the side porch looking onto the courtyard


my bike next to where i hang my underwear to dry

primitive entrance to the compost compound

the kiln and pow wow area facing the back porch


back porch notice the two rainwater cisterns (its all we use here)

my other bathroom complete with rainwater shower and compost toilet aka a bucket with sawdust in it


bathroom continued--this used to be a side porch


dinner tables ( no rent or utilities to pay)
from the breakfast niche to the kitchen


a view from the reading room onto the front porch


my living room

mi concina

my computer niche --great view of the mountains too bad you cant see it--

nice beds but you gotta watch your head near the edges of the room though.

reason #1 to hike with a weary eye and a big stick


the highest point on saddleback ridge

little lizard--he scared me to death.i thought he was a rattlesnake

my neighbor Keith tells me he could walk up there in an hour (and without any shoes)

Creosote bush...Barbara told me she makes tinkers out out it..the most potent plant in the Sonora




giant Saguaro Cati about 20 ft tall

the valley behind the saddleback ridge and home to the Apache Nation --reserve

Barbara's Bungalow on the far bottom left



Golden and lime green lichen on red volcanic pumice


the saguaro forest behind my adobe bungalow