I was just about to serve our dinner when I saw the battered Jeep Cherokee pull into the driveway. The driver stopped but left the engine running noisily, then got out and started walking to the door. I put down my spatula and went outside to meet him. Barefoot, as it turned out, which put [...]
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Winter is approaching, this will stand out in the snow
Everyone else’s is dark brown and ours is green. For that and other reasons, this is kind of a special deal. For over ten years there’s been a sharing arrangement with the garbage can. When the dead landlord was alive, we had a bigger thing we called “the dumpster” that I burned up one night [...]
Rio Grande at Pilar, looking upstream from the wooden bridge
It was warm yesterday when I shot this in the canyon at Pilar, low 70s, in fact. It probably looks the same today, but Nature’s serious and colder air is blowing in. We could even get a touch of snow tonight. Meanwhile back in Llano Quemado, invisible buzzards circle the the twin Adobes of Doom. [...]
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