This isn’t about the cat, actually, but the scene fits. (That’s Callie the Wonder Cat, wondering if I’m going to let her in.) In the photo above, you can see the towel in the windowsill for catching water whenthe ice on the inside of the glass melts in the morning sun. This is an afternoon [...]
winter
The wind is blowing left to right. If you listen, you can hear it roar.
Saturday was when it started. A beautiful day, just tough to stay outside. The wind was ferocious, up to 40 or 50 mph in the gusts, and there was plenty of dust. At one point I looked toward the kitchen and saw my big aluminum ladder leaning over at a crazy angle just outside the [...]
Last night’s sunset reflected in the east
There’s not much snow, and that’s just fine with me. New Mexico is drying up, however. Big dirt sucking up the wet, rocks and mountains hungry for whatever moisture falls. They say that all these trees will die in just a couple generations. No one can believe that, though; didn’t we just track in a [...]
Found this in a tree on a deserted mesa
This post has morphed to mystery status! Previous content under evaluation. (We work with live ammo around here, ya know.) Enjoy this New Mexico totem. And yes, I really did find it in a tree. You can read the story in my TAOS SOUL book. It’s the last chapter, actually: “Piñon Lift,” which almost gives [...]
Two gorges and a bunch of dead volcanoes
What the hell is this? Where are the people? What are all those funny colors? What’s that long thing in the middle? What happened to the grass? What’s that pointy thing in the background? How deep is that hole? Are there rattlesnakes? Does anybody live out there? Who does this belong to? Where do you [...]
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