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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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 …
Getting dirty in the springtime with planting and again in the Fall as we prepare for the coming snow reminds me that it is good to live close to the land. I remind my son--it is good to know how to grow things and how to store things. He smiles in his "yep, I know …
Continue reading Fall harvest: finding love in life with dirt under your fingernails
As I travel the backroads of the west and explore the past of the old roads, the stories take me to other stories and yet other stories. The first time I traveled Imogene Pass out of Telluride, Colorado I found such a story. The Pass itself is magnificent. The road is a sight, and to …
One of the benefits of living close to nowhere is that we get to enjoy the company of other creatures who pass through nowhere on their way. One of these creatures happens to be the tarantula. He makes his annual migration around this time of year to find a mate, and he creates quite the …
Pearl Pass, Colorado, near Aspen, at a summit of 12,705' . Cira 1872, miners from Crested Butte built a make shift road from Crested Butte over Pearl Pass to the mining town of Ashcroft, and eventually made the road to Aspen. The road is one of the most difficult we driven. The boulders, the steepness, and the …
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