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 …
Tag: New Mexico
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 …
Another granddog
Dan & Margaret’s 7- month old Hilda, from a Lashyn- Plum descendant at Dutch’s and their Galgo Sandia. Pretty girl!
Seton and Vadim Gorbatov
Vadim acknowledged Seton as an influence before he ever visited us in NM. When a Korean publisher asked him to do a version of Seton’s Lobo, the story of a youthful Seton’s capture of a notorious cattle- killing wolf in late 19th century New Mexico, we sent background images to him in Moscow. He in …
Shiri’s new camera…
More Brat Pack! And Riss is FIT!
St Patrick’s at the Spur
Cowboy-Spanish St Paddy’s at the bar, with Montana’s excellent band “86’d Again”(thank God Linda at least did not have a green beard.) From top: Montana Pettis and Luke Martin (hat); Mary Jean Zamora Rains and Catherine Aragon tend bar; Chelsea Armstrong takes video as Bobby (Bad Dog) Contreras, owner Darryl Pettis (Montana’s father) and ranch …
Bar 2, Q C # 5
Says Lib, “The thing is, we’re multicultural–we just don’t know it.” Mmmyes. Karaoke night at the Spur. Cody Henderson — his father is Lee, who owns the ranch we hunt on, and his mother was born Lorraine Lopez — as Cupid, about to sing “Landslide” with Linda (Rael) Mansell, born in Taos and married into …
Cheery Bar # 1: Querencia Country Part 4
John Carlson suggested Q Country is people too, and I heartily agree. More than one person has asked for pix from the Golden Spur, where as the song goes “everyone knows your name”. They have known mine for over 30 years, longer than the youngest staff has been alive. Sunset– let’s go in– back door. …
Querencia Country Part 2: Town
Casa Q, and just around the corner looking south to the Magdalenas, winter and early, dry summer:… and, looking west, a lurid monsoon sunset in July..All photos within a hundred yards from where I type.
Where I Live: Querencia Country Part 1
This is either overdue or redundant. But when I sent some of these to not very “Anonymous” commenter- in- chief Lane Batot, to satisfy his curiosity about the country, he thought I should blog them. The physical “structure” of the land, and its use patterns, will be utterly familiar to Westerners but perhaps a bit …