New Mexico

I know I promised to talk about why Plainview, Texas is like Paris compared to Dimmitt, but my heart’s not in it. Yours wouldn’t be either, if you’d been to Dimmitt. Suffice it to say that farming (corn, cotton, sorghum, wheat) and feedlots operate on a massive industrial scale in the Panhandle. If you like [...]

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I expect to catch hell for this and probably should. Carrizozo, NM is one of those places I’d never been to but always reserved somehow, tucked away for future reference and refuge. I tend to think like that, if we can call it thinking. But as a friend’s ancient Zen teacher yelled at him once, [...]

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Still on the road, but not for long… The shot below was taken west of Roswell, NM on the way to Ruidoso. The latter is a place my sister’s been for art shows in the past, another reason I wanted to stop there for the night. I can’t say much about Ruidoso, except that it [...]

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We left the house at about 6:35 a.m. today and headed for Pilar. I wanted to take some photos in the canyon of the Rio Grande while it was half in shadow and also catch some blooming cholla in first morning light. The image below shows how Orilla Verde got its name: Afterwards we tried [...]

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Time for another photo break! I think I took this from Overlook Park outside of White Rock, New Mexico–one hell of a strange town, about which more later–but if I’m wrong, it doesn’t matter. We’re in the vicinity of Tsankawi, and in any event, this is what it looks like south of here and over [...]

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Found a rattlesnake today. Very much alive, it was. Too tired to tell much tonight, sorry. But I did something wild today, taking a trip in the old ’87 Ford pickup to visit some unexcavated Tewa ruins from the Rio Grande Classic Period (1400s) in a place called Tsankawi. Do you know what a “cavate” [...]

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I needed to get out this morning, so I coaxed the old ’87 Ford F-150 over the nearest mountain until I came to this spot on the Rio Pueblo. It’s not right for me to be the only one to see these things, so I just have to share: My wife was gone all morning. [...]

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