“What’s she doing up there?” That’s 11 and a half pounds of Callie the Wonder Cat, too. She was up in the highest cubby of the rustic [cough] bathroom sink shelving just as fine as you please. Up where it’s so dusty and scary, we never put anything there. Or had we? A forgotten extension [...]
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My desk is by the window with the lamp
Oh, it’s old, all right. Taos is really old. Back East, people often act as if there wasn’t any history before the English—one can only wonder why—but here the millennia get in your face. Aside from whoever showed up with armed Spanish expeditions, many early European settlers were actually Sephardic Jews chased out of Spain [...]
Have a drink, load up the wood stove, put your shorts back in the drawer
We just got a couple inches of new snow. Wet stuff this time. With the temperature just above freezing and all, a lot of it soaked right into the ground—you should have seen the unmaintained dirt road—but it’s 16 °F tonight, and all the world is frozen now. Winter could just as well be gone [...]
Telephoto shot from darkest Llano Quemado
You’re looking at the lower slopes of Taos Mountain, sacred to the people of Taos Pueblo. Sometimes a photo is all you need, and I can just shut up. »Buy This Photo!«
Telephoto shot of west flank of Taos Mountain, about halfway up
Okay, this has to be another reason why we haven’t found a better house yet. I just stand outside and point my camera. The mountains are different every minute from weather, season, light, and moving clouds. Just look at the preceding post, fergodssakes. Who the hell ever has to go anywhere, says the man whose [...]
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