I am long past sentimentality and fart jokes, so I decided to make a pot of pinto beans for my birthday. My peace-seeking strategy for turning 73 this month is to lie low, monitor reality with history and news and hope that no one in my orbit kicks the bucket anytime soon. I have beef …
Why I prefer the Navajo reference walking rain to the Latin word virga. Looking west down the Las Huertas Creek drainage to the Rio Grande and over the great river to the volcanic plug Cabezon, Santa Ana Mesa at the end of the Pajarito Plateau, up the east fork of the Jemez River and to …
Bird-watching Cloud-watching Cowboy-watching (And L to R, he is watching: Hoka, popsicle, free-roaming horse down in the arroyo). Sunrise-watching Sunset-watching Beans-watching TV-watching Just watching
My first sighting of cranes this fall — Sandhills, I’m told — flying south over Placitas, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. They were way above me, looking straight up from the backyard at just over 6,000 feet. I think they were climbing in elevation to make it over the Sandias, just over 10,000 feet at the …
But they go by so fast.
dream ranch 