The vantage point above is very close to where we live. Yes, I know you’ve seen this view. I can reach it by driving less than fifteen minutes and walking briskly for ten minutes more, and every time, I’m simply stunned. So what, though, in the larger scheme of things? We have to leave our [...]
Rio Pueblo
Looking north over the Rio Pueblo gorge, 2-10-2018
No, I haven’t been posting much lately. But that doesn’t mean there’s not a lot going on in between my ears and in my heart. I haven’t written much off-site, either. This is tricky to explain and I doubt I will, but rest assured the trends are positive. I’ll tell you a little story, though… [...]
Sixty seconds walk from here the Rio Pueblo gorge will blow your mind
When our 2007 Pontiac Vibe was new, it had a tinted windshield—one without the shaded band across the top, what I call “clear”—but that was quickly cracked by stones thrown off the tires of cattle trucks in eastern Colorado. When I went to Santa Fe to have it replaced, the shop installed a shaded one [...]
Horizon line from hell
“Look, over there!” she said. I stared across the Rio Pueblo gorge until I spotted them, half a dozen somethings that weren’t rocks or trees, and then it clicked. “Bighorn sheep! See their white butts?” And so they were. It was like watching giraffes from a helicopter flying low across the veldt. What is this [...]
Something of Indiana Jones here that I can’t quite put my finger on
Ssuddenly the sun came out—this is New Mexico—and the last few raindrops glistened and were gone. Massive rain shafts still swept the ground on three sides. One was just behind, the others distant. All bore watching but there wasn’t any lightning yet. To the west, the sky was open, and the warmth streamed down. We’d [...]
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