WILD RASPBERRIES: They are were red and ripening in the high country above Crestone-Baca, whole bushes of them. I have heard its the best season in years. This photo was taken Aug. 13 at 9,000 feet in one of the canyons. PRIMARY ELECTION: Saguache County Commissioner Linda Joseph narrowly defeated challenger Tim Lovato in the Democratic […]
Category Archives: Rio Grande West
Southern Colorado and northern New Mexico: Life in the Rio Grande West.
They were teenagers from Japan, summer students at the Shumei Institute near my home. It was the 60th anniversary of the Japanese surrender ending World War II. They gave me paper cranes.
I got her number but not her name. Thoughts of a trog in June.
My letter to the government, which to paraphrase Emily Dickenson, never wrote to me. Submitted as comment on the finding of no significant impact in the Baca Refuge case.
You might think I have a morbid attitude, visiting a death site and all, but on this particular weekend it figured. There had been a synchronistic them.
Why the people — and I am one — of the lucky subdivision north of Great Sand Dunes National Park should show the generosity and vision of the National Park Service and share the access.
What is a non-government to do when surrounded by government? Crestone Baca Grande v. Great Sand Dunes National Park.
The president did Lyle Anderson a favor by playing golf at Las Campanas, but Democrats probably wouldn’t go near the place.
The Shumei Institute, one of the spiritual centers where I live, celebrated its third anniversary. Sometimes I can’t help being a reporter. . .
With every trip to the San Luis Valley and back to Santa Fe, I grew fonder of the place. Christopher Columbus liked it too, if my translation is right.