You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in. ~Arlo Guthrie Believing only in light and in the sun that drenches us more than 300 days a year in an attempt to avoid the shadows of real life distorts the real life we lead. An integral view of darkness and light, understanding them as …
Category: Small Towns
Fall Festivals: Enjoying the best of the sunshine and small town beauty
Once the harvest is mostly complete, we sure do know how to have fall festivals. Before the snow sets in and we all head indoors for the winter, the weekends are full of arts and crafts, wool, films, funnel cakes, chile and music. Fall festivals in northern New Mexico always remind me of how truly …
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Rural homes: sticks, mud, bricks or…
Fifteen years ago when I moved from St. Louis out west, one thing I learned was that a home was something that many folks built themselves, even if they weren't contractors as a profession. This concept was new to me - that people who worked full-time in other jobs would build themselves a home. They …
Raising Chickens
Birds are crafty creatures. They’re busy bodies too. After a year of raising chickens my son have a pretty thriving business going. We have steady egg clients, and we have grown to enjoy our chickens like backyard pets. We have found that chickens are strange and beautiful creatures. They spend their days sunbathing–spreading their wings …
La Veta: A treasure nestled in the breasts of the earth
La Veta is nestled at the base of the Spanish Peaks, two mountains at the southern most border of Colorado near I-25. The Spanish Peaks have been among the most important landmarks of the southwestern United States, guiding Native American tribes, trappers, and American settlers. The Ute, and other, earlier Indian tribes held the Peaks …
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Not recommended for anyone afraid of heights. What?
Tomichi Pass, takes us to a site of an old mining town. The town had a population of 1500 during the boom years of the 1880s. The silver crash of 1893 brought an end to the town. In 1896 a few prospectors returned, but most were killed in 1899 when a snowslide destroyed the town. …
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