I know I’ve been obnoxiously alluding to something big in our lives that I couldn’t tell you about, but the time has come to spill the beans. Our Airstream has been declared a total loss by our insurance company. Which means they’re taking possession of it, as in, towing it away from us. This trailer […]
Tag: Colorado
2025: Summer at Four Corners
Each year I’ve been on the road I’ve written a recap of our travels, and I’m not letting this one slide by without the proper Come Look at My Vacation Photos! post. We spent this spring and early summer at so many national parks, national monuments, and national forests in three of the Four Corners […]
From Moosappointment to a Cowboy Count
I have dreams of things I’m going to see in new places, but I’ve learned, of course, that the cool things you see are what you’re not expecting. For example, when I was in Alaska and in the Yukon summer before last, I had a lot of moospectations. I mean, there were signs everywhere telling […]
Creeks, Waterfalls, River Crossings in SW Colorado
A fat marmot and a mountain iris American White Pelicans giving me a thrill (as always) above the Rio Grande Pyramid Banjo says Hey!
How to Capture the Colorado I See
A friend and I had a conversation about the genre of realism; we were talking about painting, but really what we said applies to photography and writing, I think. Our discussion: What is the value of realism in art, and how do you achieve it? Her first reaction was that realism in painting these days […]
West Slope Is the Best Slope
West Slope Is the Best Slope is something people say who live on the Western Slope of Colorado, which I now know (because I’ve asked Tracy a million times) means west of the Continental Divide—and not east of it, which is called the Front Range. We were on the Western Slope at Colorado National Monument […]
Lemme Tell Ya the Story of Mike, the Headless Chicken
In Colorado in the 1940s, a guy stepped into his backyard to kill a chicken for dinner. His ax skills weren’t all they could have been, I’m guessing, because not all of the chicken’s head came off. What remained was one ear and the brain stem. The chicken (Mike) didn’t just run around headless, he […]
