…who of us has never felt while walking through twilight or writing a date from his past, that something infinite had been lost? — Jorge Luis Borges In Portugese there is a phrase, saudade, which speaks to a deep and profound sense of loss and nostalgia in regards to someone or some thing that Read More
A Mountain Railroad
Life is like a mountain railroad, / with an engineer that’s brave: / We must make the run successful, / from the cradle to the grave; / Watch the curves, the fills, the tunnels; / never falter, never quail; / Keep your hand upon the throttle, / and your eye upon the rail. – In Read More
OUR TOWNS 2011
Then followed that beautiful season… Summer … Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. — Henry Longfellow A Midas-touch talent combined with geological flair make New Mexico a magical summer playground. Rivers run through it, mountains silently hold Read More
Our Towns – Summer 2014
Mirror, Mirror “The sun never knew how wonderful it was, until it fell on the wall of a building.” — Louis Kahn With all due respect to Mr. Kahn’s architecturally-inspired view of the sun, it was Nature’s skyscrapers, the mountains, that were the sun’s original vanity-mirrors. This is supremely evident in the landscape-defining mountain ranges Read More
Frontier Landmarks
Fascinating historic landmarks carry abundant stories of northeast New Mexico – by Steve Zimmer – Webster’s Dictionary defines a landmark as “a prominent identifying feature of a landscape.” In the early days of the Southwest, trappers, traders, settlers, and soldiers used landforms to guide them across the vast deserts, mountains, and plains of the region. Whenever travelers Read More
Treasure, mystery, and the legend of Old Man Gallagher lurk at the bottom
When they started flooding Eagle Nest Lake in 1917, one story has it that Old Man Gallagher “swore and be damned” they’d have to carry him off the porch of his house in the lake bottom, kicking and screaming the whole way. Of course tales about oldtimers tend to run tall. About 25 years ago, we Read More