Author Archives: Carolyn Crane
Riding the Wind
“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 … Continue reading
Filed under Abbey Country, Back Yard Days, photographs
Border Tour: Naco, Sonora
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Abbey Country, photographs, politics
New Frontiers: Kartchner Caverns
Cochise County, Arizona Whenever I visit my mother in Abbey Country, I try to take her to someplace she’s never been before. My mom is over 90 now, a world traveler who still lives alone with relative autonomy. She’s buried … Continue reading
Filed under Abbey Country, Back Yard Days, Essays
The Back Road to Casey’s Place
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 … Continue reading
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Three Crossings: Bloody Run Creek
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Back Yard Days, Friends of Bloody Run Creek, photographs
Sister Mercy
This poem was published in the Sonoma Mandala in 1987. trembling I would watch Sister Mercy’s weathered hands work the soil in the convent garden I would hide half behind the bird bath till the stark white of my anklet … Continue reading
Alden Olmsted Receives Standing Ovation for "My Father Who Art In Nature"
Reblogged from Lightcap Farm's Blog: Nevada City, California On the closing afternoon of Wild and Scenic, well over a hundred people sat in the Foundry’s Stone Hall to watch My Father Who Are in Nature. Many of us knew the … Continue reading
Spring Dump
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.
Filed under Back Yard Days, photographs
The Intrepid Mary Moore
A couple years ago I wrote my first piece about my neighbor, the quilter and artist Mary Moore. Even today a few people a week visit the blog and read about that special day I spent with Mary. This year … Continue reading
Filed under Community, photographs
A Glimpse of Bloody Run Creek
When I covered the Wild and Scenic Film Festival last January, I wrote a piece called “Occupy Confluences”. It’s about creating new systems, the blue lines on the map, and what inspired me to be a more active steward of … Continue reading
