While driving back from Arkansas I couldn’t resist getting a picture of this sign that displays one of my favorite Arkansas town names. I also saw this interesting Native American name used for a road near Lake Eufala, Oklahoma.
Author: Reid Farmer
Petroglyph National Monument
While I was waiting for Connie’s plane to arrive in Albuquerque last week, I had a little time to visit Petroglyph National Monument located across the Rio Grande on the west side of town. Access there is easy, there’s no admission fee, and they only charge $1 for parking. The eroding volcanic rocks on the …
Breakfast at the Hundred Acre Wood
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?” “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?” “I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said. – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Magdalena Visit
Last week I was driving home from a visit with relatives in Arkansas and I decided to go by way of New Mexico. Connie flew into Albuquerque from Denver, I picked her up at the airport, and we drove to water-poor Magdalena for a short but (as always) delightful visit with Steve and Libby. We …
Valley Fever
Connie and I both saw “scare articles” yesterday on this terrifying, incurable disease. Not to minimize it, but valley fever is somewhat of an occupational hazard among archaeologists in the West and I had a case in 1980. I’m still here, but you can see the effect in an x-ray of my chest.
Quite the Imitator
Steve’s post from a couple of days ago on Wildlife in Your Yard reminded me of an encounter we had with a gopher snake three summers ago (please correct me if I misidentified the species). Connie and I had returned from fly fishing on the South Platte just after dark one evening when we surprised this …
Blast from the Past
I wish I had held on to more of that hair. Taken near Lizard Head Pass, Dolores County, Colorado, summer 1976.
Quote
A writer cannot really grasp what he has written. It is not like a building or a sculpture; it cannot be seen whole. It is only a kind of smoke seized and printed on a page. – James Salter, Burning the Days
Black Forest Fire
You may have seen something about this horrible fire in the national news. I took this picture of the smoke plume from the guest bedroom balcony Tuesday afternoon when the fire was first stirring up. It’s located northeast of Colorado Springs and about 40-45 miles south of us. As of this morning it had burned …
Mammoth Spring
Last Sunday, Connie, my father and I drove from Jonesboro up into the Arkansas Ozarks to Mammoth Spring State Park. Mammoth Spring is located a hundred yards or so south of the Arkansas/Missouri line and is aptly named, with a flow of 9 million gallons an hour. It is the source of Spring River that …