The lightning started during “Grantchester” and continued through “COBRA,” nearly two hours. I couldn’t really concentrate on either as cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud bolts seemed to stretch in a northwesterly arc from Las Huertas Canyon to Santa Ana Pueblo. Took an evening walk with Cowboy before the start and picked up the pace under darkening skies …
The summer rainy season started at my place on June 17, earlier than usual. There have been gaps in the monsoon flow but we got another good rain on July 13.
Maybe it was my subconscious that led me to pull this old favorite from the shelf this morning as I thought about hitting the trail with Cowboy on aching knees. From Horses, Hitches and Rocky Trails by Joe Back, Sage Books, 1959.
Can’t say my thoughts eased with the Forest Service nightly briefing Sunday on the Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Peak fire. I hope we do not have to remember this as the fire that burned from Pecos to Taos. The 40-day-old fire is near 300,000 acres and stretches 45 miles south to north through the Sangre de Cristo …
Once upon a time, in high school days, I washed dishes in the white and gray-blue restaurant over the water in the forefront of this photo, the restaurant then the Glad Hand and now Scoma’s. I lived with my mother and two brothers in an apartment in one of two rundown gingerbread Victorians almost directly …
dream ranch 