Change often seems a slow thing in the southern Rockies. Take, for example, our reverence for the ancient community of Taos Pueblo, which has seemingly stood still (its inner core remains unchanged) for a thousand years, making it the oldest continually inhabited community in the country. Truly, adaptation is survival. On the other hand, time Read More
Mountain Memories
In charting a course for a future Memory Lane – paved with images, impressions, and travel-tread keepsakes – we offer you a gilded inventory, what you might call “the Blueprint Special,” which runs the recreational gamut in northern New Mexico and the southern Rockies. Switching Gears Your personal scrapbook may include a snapshot of you Read More
Riders In The Sky
Summer. Just the word makes spirits soar. Later, it’s back to the daily grind, but in the meantime, I figure a change of attitude (and altitude) might do a body good. Who knows? Fresh perspectives can change things forever. When I got the chance to take a hot air balloon ride (always on my bucket Read More
The flow of the river, the lay of the land
A Red River watershed tour – The Red River tells a compelling story. A few million years or so ago, before the earth moved, the Red River was not a tributary but the source of the Rio Grande. Now, however, the Red feeds the Rio Grande as it makes its way to the Gulf of Mexico 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
Pioneer Women
Study history for any length of time and you being to realize how easy it is to get bogged down by the passage of time and events large and small; but history, like politics, is local. The histories of the Moreno Valley and Red River are like that, shaped as they were by tumultuous times Read More