I am drinking coffee in my kitchen and see out the window the first mountain bluebird of the season. It’s morning, but for some reason I think of the Nick Adams dinner scene as night fell after a day of hiking in “Big Two-Hearted River.” Nick packed some heavy stuff to his fishing spot, …
Bobcats approach iPhone-equipped home office and suddenly hear Cowboy alarm.
I’m a day early on the fall equinox but waking this 50-degree morning and seeing after the sun rose a couple of blossoms on my un-irrigated autumn sage, I decided to start celebrating. The pictures aren’t perfect, more fall is coming — cottonwoods, aspen and migrating birds — and I’m sure there is plenty to …
News gets in the way of my words, but dawn still comes.
Tormenting me Sunday with that maddening New Mexico question: Texas Antelope Squirrel or Colorado Chipmunk?
Seeing the 2019 lunar eclipse with my own eyes really was the best experience — and worth the stiff neck — but here is what I was able to save with my battered Canon Powershot pocket camera and an iPhone. Some confusion (mine) the night before. Moonrise the night of (January 20). The real …
by JR May all my Christmases be alcohol-free Note: I have touched this up a couple of times since first posting it in December 2018. Today, December 24, 2020, is the latest. It’s been 35 years but I still wake up on quiet mornings thankful I’m sober. Especially during the holiday season when thoughts of alcohol-fueled …
Photo: nypost.com George H.W. Bush shot down over the Pacific, September 1944. Bob Dole wounded in Italy, April 1945.
The storm blew in. Tried to watch baseball with Cowboy in the front row. Looked like a perilous day for lingering lizards. Had to break out my winter hat, but saw the first cranes heading south. Weather couldn’t decide between rain or snow. Bluebirds came around, wearing down jackets. And others arrived to sit out …
Morning rain in New Mexico and thugs going down on the East Coast can really mess with your writing. You know: You start feeling all cozy and don’t want to get out of bed, seduced by rare rain in the high desert. Your brain starts thinking with introductory clauses and you end up staring at …
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