By Jose Morales y Serrano of Sevilla and Albuquerque. This was for the first ed of Aloft. I also have “Kneeling woman with English Carrier” somewhere in the archives…
Tag: Friends
Pluvialis Sighting
Reports on Helen’s work in progress– here and here. A quote from the first: ” I’m busy writing that book. The one about grief and goshawks and death and love and landscape and home and, well. All the things.” And from the second: “It is the story of a journey into wildness with a creature …
A Knife review
At Overland Expo, Jonathan Hanson reviews a useful but elegant minimalist “NON- tactical” knife. After giving some technical specs he says: “You’re at an upscale restaurant with several acquaintances. The filet mignon you ordered has arrived, but the knife provided is either woefully inadequate or one of those coarsely oversized serrated saws. You produce the …
Our culture…
As demonstrated in our social center, the Golden Spur Saloon (I have for the moment ignored ranchers and cowboys, though the Spur’s site doesn’t). Click or double to enlarge either photo. Below, my late mentor Floyd Mansell in our front yard in 1986, with son Brandon, who now has his own kids, and a morning’s …
House Band
Regular readers know that Querencia’s home bar is the Golden Spur Saloon, and has been for thirty some years, since Betsy Huntington was alive, first under Steve Grayson’s management (see Q- the- book, which has scenes set there). Montana Pettis (who is not thirty yet!) is the son of present owner Darryl, also bartender and …
More Visitors
Who but Arthur Wilderson would visit and bring obscure, beautifully- made Czech battle rifles, other military goodies, a bottle of cherry dessert wine from a Colorado winery, and friends, Nate and (female) Evan, with interests in everything from fossil cat cladistics and Darren Naish’s blog to Asian falconry and cartridges I had never heard of? …
Weekend Visitors
.. amidst the chaos of book- ending: dog- in- laws Dan and Margaret of Shot on Site, Hare- Brained Express, etc etc, who have bought a bookstore in Deming, dropped by with seven- month old “sisters” Dragon Tatoo (“Toot”), the deerhound, and granddog H1lda (not a typo), who is from Lash and Plummer and Dutch …
Pigeon Pix and Apt Descriptions
I realize that not many readers are pigeon fanciers but I have been since I was eight, and pigeons are an integral part of life at Casa Q. Those who find them a bit low- class– I once reviewed a book for the TLS which was generally good, but which remarked that pigeons were unattractive, …
Photos 2– Weather Here & Elsewhere
It is NOT hot here and rarely is, something I despair of making those who equate New Mexico with Arizona understand (NM is one of the highest states in the Union). Greg, Our friend and Lib’s boss at the PO, had to visit his father in Texas and sent us this pic with the label …
Travelers’ trails…
… sometimes cross. Lauren has been studying and adventuring in Kazakhstan, and sends photos both silly and sublime. Humor first- I’ll let her narrate: ” I went through an ordeal to try and get this well pump to work in the deep desert. It was so hot, I ended up wearing a shawl, the thinnest …