As I type this, it’s fifty-two degrees (11°C) and the backyard Lift-o-Matic is full of drying laundry. That means nothing on racks by the wood stove. Good. When it’s truly cold, nothing on God’s earth beats great blistering waves of actual heat from a real fire, but if it’s only middling cool like today, I’d feel like I was “wasting” firewood by using it to dry my underwear. Anyway, here you go, Taos Mountain, a.k.a. Pueblo Peak, elevation 12,305 feet or thereabouts. The town is already 7,000 feet above sea level, so you’re looking at a whole vertical mile of mountain! New Mexico has room for things like that. Not many places do.
Mountain Fix
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John Hamilton Farr lives at 7,000 feet in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, U.S.A. As New York Times best-selling author James C. Moore tells it, John is “a man attuned to the world who sees it differently than you and I and writes about it with a language and a vision of life that is impossible to ignore.” This JHFARR.COM site is the master writing archive. To email John, please see CONTACT INFO on About page. For a complete list of all John’s writing, photography, NFTs, and social media links, please visit JHFARR.ART
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Thank You, John again and again…your images always take me back to my short time in Taos and it reminds me of the magical place that it can be…when I look into the images you offer, it can take me away for everything else and I think you can guess of what I speak of…I hope this finds you both well and happy..!!
Cheers as always, Fred
Hi Fred! You’re very welcome. I’ve never lived anywhere else where I could look up and see something like this. There must be other places, though. Life’s just too short to see them all.
I wondered what a ‘lift-o-matic’ was. In Australia we call that a ‘clothes hoist’.
Well, that’s a brand or model name. The thing came from the Netherlands, I think. Brabantia Corporation, an international outfit. Nobody calls them “lift-o-matics” that I know of. You just say, “You know, those folding metal racks on a pole kind of like an umbrella with plastic string around it where you hang your clothes?”
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