Now there’s a title you don’t see every day, and the guys who made it possible aren’t everyday fellows, either.
How it turned out that in my advanced decreptitude I’ve finally found friends who not only share many of my own predilections and cultural underpinnings but also take care of each other is mildly astounding to [...]

Interesting…
Example A: was $360K, now $279K and the owner will look at “any” offers. Example B: was $675K, now $395K. Whoa! That’s a drop of over 40 percent. The paper is full of ads with “REDUCED!” banners on them. And here the conventional wisdom was that this would never happen because Taos is an “end [...]

A slightly different version of this and one other at FotoFeed. That’s from early yesterday afternoon, taken five minutes south of town looking roughly north.

Rio Grand Gorge w/ storm over Lobo Peak

Okay, here you go, growing just outside the door, practically. I make a mean apricot pie, or better yet, turnovers. Apricots growing right out of the ground! Don’t say I never gave you nuthin.

No, these aren’t ripe yet, but we’re gonna have a ton of ‘em

How did it get to be five days?? Anyway, FotoFeed is now current again. Today’s image is a cropped closeup from the shot below. It also shows up as the current header rollover on this page. (Mouse over my mug shot for a real thrill.) There’s even a hint of a rainbow:

Looking east toward El [...]

I did something different today, bought a brushcutter/line trimmer at Sears. On the way to the dentist, no less, and both bills were the same!
It’s huge and weighs a ton. There isn’t even a place to put it, but I have one now. I just wanted to be able to cut the weeds and tall [...]

Oh, what a grand few days…
We look at another place I know I won’t like — I’m one of those who know — and I’m not overwhelmed. Expecting the deal to crumble in the end regardless, I stay on my best behavior and pretty much keep silent. (Mistake!) But right away, in the absence [...]

That’s what she called him, “Lumpy.”
For the two or three people in the whole world who might understand what I’m talking about, that’s what yet another Maryland friend emailed me when I told her who had died on Wednesday. I didn’t even know he had a nickname, but then she might have gone to [...]

I hadn’t seen her in about eight years, or was it nine?
There was some nervousness on my part at first, having to do with simply meeting someone from our old life. It wasn’t me or her I was concerned with, however, but my wife. At least I thought it had to do with her. As [...]

The red-naped sapsucker rat-a-tat-tats away on the kiva chimney’s metal cap. If it isn’t the chimney, he (?) goes after the transformer on the telephone pole. How long do you suppose the bird will do this before realizing that no sap is coming out?
I could build this into a socio-political metaphor if I had the [...]