Eat it up, you myth addicts. It’s amazing how this can grab you, even as you realize your cargo pants are a darker shade of khaki now because it’s too damn hard to even think about the laundry when you have to weight the hose down in the kitchen sink and dry stuff by the [...]
Adventure
Very cold and windy when this was taken
God gave me this photograph. I never planned the thing that makes it special, which I’m not going to say, so I guess whatever I do mention, ain’t it. The white band in the middle, for instance, is actually a ground-hugging cloud of snow moving in from the west in a very strong wind. As [...]
Callie the Wonder Cat, of course
Here we go again, thank God. Oh the end and the beginning. Two weeks ago my wife and I were lying somewhere in a king-sized bed on the third floor of the Fairfield Inn in Alamosa, Colorado. It was totally comfortable and crazy as hell. (Our bed at home is so much smaller.) I followed [...]
Mountain bluebird, first week of December, 2010
Sometimes when I don’t have a fresh photo to post with a story, I’ll check the archives for something nifty on the same date a few years back. This one is five years old almost exactly, off by just three days! Yes, we have western and mountain bluebirds all year round in northern New Mexico [...]
From a supermarket parking lot
We were zooming around the Washington, D.C. beltway doing eighty in the rain like everybody else—God knows how many lanes wide this was—when a semi passed us on the left and sideswiped a bus, which damn near rolled over and took the next exit with pieces of the body flapping in the wind. The whole [...]
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