Love Giveaway!

Red dirt is red,

the sky is blue

and I want to say

thank you to you!

Thank you for sharing this space with me. It wouldn’t be the same without you!
And blessing you with my incredible poetry is…. not enough.

So, I’m making an awesome Valentine care package and I’m going to send it to someone. Someone who enters this giveaway! Just leave a comment
(only one please; I might not know if you enter more than once but you will)
and I’ll have Mike randomly pick a number on February 7th, leaving enough time for the Pony Express to deliver by Valentine’s Day.
Thanks, you.

ALSO, if your lady love is not the diamonds type, I’ve put a few Valentiney items in the SHOP. And some arrowheads I snagged off Cupid!

Photos, Unrelated

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late summer berry basket

fire guys

mountain longing

tools

rose hips, choke cherries, juniper berries

extricate

mountain longing II

hibiscus tea

SOPA gets personal

A lot of sites are going dark today in protest of SOPA and PIPA.

The Daily Coyote as we know it would not exist if SOPA had been in effect five years ago. The Daily Coyote book, which so many of you have loved, would never have been written under SOPA.

What do I mean? How can I make these declarations? Easy. Because I still so vividly remember those strange days in late 2007 when my blog went from obscurity to its opposite overnight. Dooce linked to The Daily Coyote with one picture and a blurb. Then Reddit, Digg, Notcot, and more. My editor-to-be at Simon & Schuster heard about The Daily Coyote at a dinner party in New York
and emailed me the next day with a book offer.

This would not happen under SOPA. This would be illegal under SOPA.

If you’re glad you found Charlie ~ and Eli and Daisy and the rest of the crew ~ please add your voice to those in opposition of SOPA and PIPA. Learn more HERE. Act HERE.

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happy new year!

I’ve been on a multi-species lovefest, which, combined with budding obsessions with new amazing projects has kept me away from the computer and has also caused me to be way late in starting THIS. But it’s not too late. Who’s doing it with me this year?

Sexy Beast

Every day is like Christmas when I open this box.

I included myself {and Mushy!} in this picture as a size reference, to show how huge this equipment is, but it didn’t work - it just makes me look short.
In reality, I’m 5′9″ and this stuff is as big as I am.