This is my rainy day icon, photographed from my warm and dry bedroom sometime back but it’s raining again today.
This is my rainy day icon, photographed from my warm and dry bedroom sometime back but it’s raining again today.
This is my favorite picture of myself, though the image may be too telling. It was a piece of cake job, if you ask me, a junket, especially as a break from the hot, dirty work of cutting fire lines. I am sitting on the bank of Hot Creek at the foot of the Sierra …
My Cowboy 2 after hearing this morning’s coyote kerfuffle with dumb neighborhood dogs. He was quote “living outside” before his rescue by the Best Friends Sanctuary in Utah and then Animal Humane in New Mexico. These days in Placitas, he has no use for thunder, lightning or coyotes. He’s not even too sure about hiking. …
Good thing my squirrel-averse buddy was taking a nap in another room …
My birthday here at the Fortress of Platitudes would have been incomplete without pinto beans and party animals. Notes: — All party animal photos by Izzy and Molly owner Lori.
Cowboy 2 and I heard a loud clicking sound during lunch. Cowboy turned his head, trying to identify the noise. I looked around the kitchen sink. Then we spotted this big fellow doing his mandible thing on the fence outside.

Cowboy 2, center, with neighbor pals Molly and Izzy on the lookout. Placitas horses minding their own business below. Also at the neighbors: Cowboy2 after the season’s first thunder rumble; Izzy and Molly just normal. .
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