late at night and warm in the house; once again it's been cold and getting colder. It doesn't go down much below freezing, but it's windy, clear and very dry, and it tends to go on all spring. this is spring in southern new mexico.

as i walk the dogs i notice some green appearing in the grasses at my feet. i consider this a miracle, since it's so dry - where did they get the moisture? maybe there is a little dew and the little grass clumps grab at it and use it, knowing it will rain for sure maybe in july. or maybe they got it from the snow, which actually melted and seeped into the earth.

we go on preparing for the move. i had a dizzy spell overnight and that cost me a day. ordinarily if i feel a dizzy spell coming on i can take some meds to alleviate it; they seem milder these days because of meds, and since meds work to loosen up the passageways in my inner ear and my deep skull, this is enough to not seriously waylay my day's plans. but this morning i woke up and things were swirling around, and, i had to throw up. nausea is a partner of dizziness, and once again, the meds can help, they can separate the nausea from the dizziness, but i didn't take meds because i'd been sleeping. my wife was there to bring me a bowl to throw up in. but as i woke up several other times in the morning, each time i was dizzy - the bedroom light pattern was not sitting still - and i kept falling back asleep, until i'd slept until 2 30.

it's not especially painful - disorienting, yes, but not painful - and the nausea though it gives me a dislike for whatever i've been eating, is not really even like normal nausea. what's hard is getting up, walking, carrying on with one's normal life. you just can't.

the pictures below are from an ongoing project of making pop-art out of the world's wilder scenes. sometimes i just live in my own world, noticing such things and basically making pop art out of what i see. then i carry on, to another day.