Coyote Crossing

Edds and Onds

Boxes, boxes, boxes. My life is all about boxes. Lifting them is getting easier, so either I’m responding well to the workout involved in lifting everything I own four times, or The Raven packed all the heavy stuff first. Either way works for

The Return of Carnival of The Arid: February 15

It’s 2011, and I’m moving back to the desert from Los Angeles, and I thought “what better way to mark that occasion than to revive the Carnival of The Arid?” So I’m reviving the Carnival of The Arid.

In 2009 we held the CoTA for about six months

Carnival of the Arid #6

In the mirror, Castleton Tower and Priest & Nuns; ar right, Parriott Mesa. Photo by stalwart CoTA contributor Richard Schwartz.

It’s another Carnival of The Arid, a slightly abbreviated one in this case. But short doesn’t mean lackluster! We

Heads up for Carnival of the Arid

Offline life has gotten ahead of me this week, and I’m a couple days late on getting Carnival of the Arid up. I’ll be doing that tomorrow, so feel free to send in a late submission or two before then? Or hell, even after … (continues)

Carnival of the Arid #6 coming up

The sixth Carnival of the Arid, the blog carnival devoted to the deserts of the world, is coming soon. However, the deadline is a leisurely 8 days away, which means you still have time to get your desert-related blog posts, podcasts, photo essays,

Carnival of the Arid #5

Adobe Mesa at sunset, Richard Schwartz photo

[Edited post-publication to include a piece I’d misplaced.]

Howdy, and welcome to the belated fifth edition of Carnival of the Arid! It’s a shorter CotA this time around, and flanked (as has become

Carnival of the Arid back online!

Okay, I messed up. The job search and various other real-life exigencies ate up my time last month and we skipped a CotA. The few of you who submitted a piece without my reminders: sorry for the delay.

But let’s get back on that feral burro! Call

Carnival of the Arid #4

Hello, and welcome to a slightly belated Carnival of the Arid number 4! As is becoming traditional, we kick off this episode with a stunning photo by Richard Schwartz, who writes:

I am still sadly blogless. I will be floating down the San Juan

Carnival of the Arid: Extension

Those of you who’ve been waiting for Carnival of the Arid #4 will have to wait just a little bit longer: I’m up against an admittedly self-imposed deadline getting The Clade ready to launch tomorrow. CotA4 will run Monday. This means you still have

Carnival of the Arid #3

Sunflowers and Castleton Tower, Castle Valley, Utah. Photo by Richard Schwartz

Welcome to the third edition of Carnival of the Arid, kicked off this time with another wonderful photo by the sadly blog-less Richard Schwartz. Another of his photos

Pushing CotA back one day

Because I know there are one or two people scrambling to come up with something for CotA, I’m going to publish it on Thursday rather than Wednesday. Send in your submissions! And thanks to those of you who’ve submitted already. The list is a little

Third Carnival of the Arid coming up!

The third installment of Carnival of the Arid will appear here on Wednesday, April 1. That’s a week from tomorrow! You still have plenty of time to submit your desert-themed blog posts by Tuesday the 31 of March, which you can do by leaving a

Carnival of the Arid #2

slickrock horizon - Canyonlands, Leslie Sobel, ©2007. See post for more.

Hi, and welcome again to the Carnival of the Arid, this one being the second in the series, posted slightly later in the day than I had planned.

CotA features a wide range

Don’t forget! Carnival of the Arid deadline looms

It’s been a little quiet Chez Coyote, partly because I’ve been involved in a long-form writing project that — being largely unpublishable anywhere else — will show up here eventually, and partly because I’ve been bidding on projects, and partly

Carnival of the Arid #2, coming March 2

The first Carnival of the Arid was a huge success, with lots of wonderful material submitted.

So let’s do it again!

Here’s the description from the “charter”:

Submissions should have something to do with a desert somewhere in the world. (If

Carnival of the Arid #1

[Update: CotA#2 is now online!!]

Welcome to the first ever Carnival of the Arid! The mission of CotA is to provide a wide-ranging look at blog artistry coming from, or inspired by, the world’s arid regions. We’ve got a lot of good submissions for

Reminder: Carnival of the Arid, February 1

We’ve gotten quite a few wonderful submissions for the upcoming, first-ever Carnival of the Arid, which I’m already thinking of as a rousing success. But that doesn’t mean we’re full! Send me a link to your desert-related blog post by January 30

Carnival of the Arid: February 1

[Update: Here it is! Go read.]

A couple weeks back I started thinking about putting together a blog carnival devoted to the deserts of the world. A blog carnival, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, is a recurring event in which bloggers