This is a Hano Mana kachina doll. I posted a while back on some Zuni kachina rock art and the role that kachinas play in Pueblo religion. The place where I bought this had it misidentified, but the artist’s inscription on the base that identified him as Hopi-Tewa helped me figure it out with a …
Author: Reid Farmer
Lift
Congratulations to Rebecca O’Connor whose falconry memoir, Lift, will be published by Red Hen Press. Several of us are vying for stops on her book tour.
Signs that Fall is Coming
Cottonwood leaves are turning Arrival of Colorado Western Slope peaches. These are from Palisade And it’s time for roasting chiles
Colorado is…
…the leanest state in the union. I’m very proud. I swear I could feel my body mass index fall when we crossed the state line in March.
Black Forest Bison
Yesterday Connie and I drove to Colorado Springs and took SR 83, one of the “blue highways” rather than the Interstate. Just as we were coming up to a plateau covered with ponderosa pine, known as the Black Forest, we saw this herd of bison on a ranch. The market for bison meat seems to …
A Discovery
On a cricket pitch at Jesus College, Pluvialis discovers why austringers have a reputation for cursing. Also, sounds as though it was a good thing Xtin was there to run interference.
Surprise Plums
More new yard discoveries. I thought one of our trees was just an ornamental until I looked up and noticed these plums this week. They’re small, but sweet and tasty.
Left Hand Brewing Company
One of the changes I’ve noticed in the twenty years we’ve been away from Colorado is the proliferation of micro- and mini-breweries here. As Matt pointed out when we talked about this, it’s sort of a “return to the future” as in the 19th century where most towns had at least one brewery. Competition in …
In Print
Steve has an article in the September/October number of Gray’s Sporting Journal, titled “The Power of the Dog”. Sorry this doesn’t link to the article, available only in dead tree version. And you should check out Pluvialis’ review of Mark Cocker’s “Crow Country” in the New Statesman. I’m doing my best to save them from …
Manioc at the Ceren Site
The NY Times and the Denver Post both have articles today on a significant archaeological discovery at a prehistoric Mayan site in El Salvador. Dr. Payson Sheets of the University of Colorado has been excavating at the Ceren site since the late 1970s, a 1,400 year-old site with miraculous preservation due to its burial by …