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Here There Be Monsters

March 5, 2019 by baRb@55

Twilight. The sky has begun to softly bruise plum and lavender, with hints of rose. You are walking along the rock-encrusted rim of a gorge, peering down into the yawning abyss which speaks the vocabulary of prehistory. The weatherman talked about possible snow, and you can feel the teeth of winter on your skin as Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories, New!, Southern Colorado

Wild Horsepower

May 3, 2017 by baRb@55

STRAIGHT FROM the HORSE’S MOUTH: There is no shortage of myths, superstitions, and fun obscure facts when it comes to horses. From the vaults of equestrian trivia: The first historically recorded horse race—between fool’s golden boy Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (see: Chasing El Dorado) and one of his soldiers, Rodrigo de Maldonado — took place Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories, Southern Colorado, Wildlife

The Wild Ones

May 3, 2017 by baRb@55

Seeing wildlife is like seeing celebrities, only better. – Tania Andrews Fun Wildlife Factoids: New Mexico’s state bird is the roadrunner; Colorado’s is the lark bunting. Roadrunners can fly, though they spend most of their time on the ground. The golden eagle is North America’s largest bird of prey. The American Bison is the largest Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Southern Colorado, Wildlife

Oh, When The Saints –

May 12, 2016 by baRb@55

Carving a place in history – Whether celebrating the beneficence of San Francisco (St. Francis), petitioning San Ysidro for rain during a drought (St. Isidore), or honoring the virtues of Guadalupe, saints have been and remain an essential part of the spiritual and cultural fabric of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. When Spanish settlers Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Stories

Tale-spinning in the high desert

December 10, 2015 by baRb@55

In the beginning was the word “Who is the storyteller? Of whom is the story told? What is there in the darkness to imagine into being? What is there to dream and to relate? What happens when I or anyone exerts the force of language upon the unknown? … If there is any absolute assumption Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Stories, Southern Colorado

Our Towns – Summer 2014

September 23, 2015 by baRb@55

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

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Our Towns, Southern Colorado

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