It had been bad for a while, but I guess in the mid-1770’s it got really bad. From 1772 to 1776, a drought seized Nuevo Mexico, and thin food and water resources became even more scarce in the desolate territory. For those Spaniard colonists who took a chance and settled north of the Sonora...
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Jeff and Juliette were kind enough to let Chris Payton and I use their cabin for a second time in four years, so we jumped on the opportunity and drove up to Cowles this weekend, which is about 20 miles north of Pecos. The home of two small fishing ponds, several trailheads, a guest...
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It’s Sunday evening, and as I look back on the weekend, I did a lot of what I often do, which is not much. I did enjoy watching two of three Lobo baseball games played against the Air Force Academy up in Colorado Springs. The scores of the three games, all won by UNM,...
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Last Saturday, as I meandered south from Albuquerque, I ended up driving the main drag through Socorro, New Mexico, and as I passed through an intersection, I looked to my right and saw the face and bell towers of a mission church. I am unable to resist the pull of such New Mexican cathedrals,...
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This post is a followup to yesterday’s bit on the Magdalena Village library, a.k.a. the Depot. If you step across the street from the Magdalena Library, you face the village’s hardware store and HVAC specialist. Clark Brown owns Eagle Hardware Supply, but if you try to find his business by the building, just look...
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With some free time this weekend, I headed south on Saturday, and after a short stop in Socorro, I ended up going on over and spending some time in Magdalena, NM. Not knowing anything about the place, I left the village with a handful of interesting photographs and a tidbits about the village. What...
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After a pretty slovenly weekend in which I pretty much did as little as possible for one and a half days, I did do some very brief home care this afternoon before sunlight and the outdoors called, and picking a random direction, I drove north and after a while left the freeway and looked...
Read more →Today has been an odd day. It’s been kind of like everything that happened today has been on “mute”. Life spins and swirls around me, but everyone and everything I know feels far away, and I can see mouths moving, but I can’t hear anything. It’s the feeling of being a bubble boy. You...
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I had an interesting intersection of interests this week. It was partly due to seeing a famous photo a few years ago that I finally pushed myself to get up and to get out a little more to see some of the wondrous natural attractions in the region. The photo, taken by Edward S....
Read more →This last August, I enjoyed going to my 30th high school reunion, if nothing more than to see a bunch of faces that I, 30 years ago and some, used to see day in and day out at school- although, in much younger versions. That’s the thing about reunions- for those that go, everyone...
Read more →I started binge-watching the TV show Longmire about three weeks ago, and after the first episode, I was hooked, for several reasons. For me, the first reason I latched on to the show was fairly obvious. Though the show is supposed to take place in Wyoming, it is filmed in my beloved state of...
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After going to Moab early this summer to visit Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, I told myself I needed to go see some of the other amazing Southwest sites I’d long heard about but put off visiting. As the summer rolled on, a cheery weekend day in August gave me enough incentive to day...
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It was fairly impromptu, but this morning my Mom, Dad and I hopped in a car and headed out of Albuquerque around 8 AM to go visit the Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge south of Socorro, NM. Bosque Del Apache is famous for the amazing number of waterfowl- cranes, ducks, and geese- that congregate...
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It’s been a melancholy day all day, so after a morning of doing little, I went for what I thought would be a short walk this afternoon in the Bosque down by the river. It became a 3 hours shuffle amidst sunlight and silence, but at least it produced a few photos. The bike...
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I had been thinking about it for three weeks, so last Sunday, I got up early and hit the road. To ride the train. The Cumbres-Toltec Scenic Railroad is famous for its fantastic fall train rides between Chama, New Mexico and Antonito, Colorado. The narrow gauge line, established in the 1880’s to help get...
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The skies are noticeably more gray lately in the evenings, except for the moments when the sun sets and the western sky is a tapestry of burning pastels. You also notice a tinge of chill in the air in the house, where the temperature is unmoderated and floats with whatever it is outside. The...
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