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It is eerie to feel rain fall in the desert. Darkness, high winds, and slow soaking rain greeted us this past month, spoiling half-dry apricots on roofs, violently swelling the streams and rivers, and...

When Meme Angchuk returned from the Dalai Lama’s teachings in Zanskar late this July, he helped us fix and clean up one of Tar’s water-powered grain mills, preparing it to grind this season’s...

This entry will grow with the season. 21 August We’re so pleased with the potatoes, the beans, the cabbages, and finally! the carrots (they didn’t do well and we had to plant them three times)....

Below are some latest photos (Aug 25) of the resprouting of this great tree, which we fully cut in mid June (also pictured above).  Willow...

This is Umbu (Myricaria genus), an incredibly abundant and useful shrub that fills the streambeds of the valleys above Tar. The flower spikes. Leaves...

These are time lapses which show the astonishing movement of clouds above our home in the gongma of Tar village, Ladakh.                                                                                 ...