I was out there in that vastness earlier on a hike. The clouds hadn’t rolled in yet with their dragging rain, and I’d taken a different route down this time. Almost right away I spied someone jogging up the trail from the gorge. I hate meeting people on the trail, of course. Number one, they’re [...]
Taos Valley Overlook
Two inches long and in a hurry »Buy This Photo!«
I was walking at Taos Valley Overlook yesterday and saw this fellow (?) beside the trail when I stopped to answer a call of nature. Almost wet him down, in fact. All in all, I saw four more that morning. Three were heading east, one was moving south, and the other was going west. Make [...]
Strong little fella, ain’t he »Buy This Photo!«
They came hurtling down around a blind curve in the singletrack trail, two mountain bikers bent on mayhem. With no time for me to step gracefully out of the way, I leaped into the sagebrush in a single bound, badly scratching my leg. “You’re all right,” the lead idiot yelled as he shot past. Whatever [...]
Sangre de Cristos and mastodon burrow. Shadow heading back to underworld.
Walked right past it at first. Wow, that’s quite a burrow, I thought. It was definitely large and obvious enough to make me not want to hang around. Coyotes are always the first thing I think of, skunks second, raccoons third, then rabid badgers, spitting cobras, and so on. It’s probably possible to stand beside [...]
Walked about three miles. Saw one lady with a dog.
Sixty degrees today at Taos Valley Overlook and a semi-dry path. Who could resist? I noticed on the way out that my ’87 Ford F-150 was almost impossible to shift. Maybe the hydraulic clutch just needs a little fluid. Oh, sure. Has that ever fixed anything? “Here, lemme just top this off”… I used to [...]
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