Posted by admin on April 20, 2012 in
Musings Tuesday last was tax day and as I usually do around April 17, I ponder taxes, money, accountants. All of this, of course, fuels imagery that erupts from the past: characters, events, some funny, some sad, some unwanted, some I am glad I remembered. In 1979-1980 I worked for a big corporation in the ag [...]
Tags: Arizona, audits, cattle, cowboys, dust, feedyards, flies, Gila River Indian Reservation, manure, ropes, San Tan, taxes
Posted by admin on April 13, 2012 in
Movies,
Musings Our daughter, Sarah, and her husband, Baruch, are expecting their first baby in July. We have grandkids already. One, Justyce, is already zooming her way to young adulthood. The prospect for the arrival of a newborn is damned exciting. As I think about this new granddaughter, the season is Spring and outside the daffodils are [...]
Tags: Allman Bothers, Arizona, Baruch Ellsworth, Casa Grande, cast iron stove, cotton farmer, cowboys, Dire Straits, Geronimo, Idlewild South, James Rodgers, John Huston, Justyce Rodgers, Man in the Wilderness, Memory of Elizabeth Reed, movies, painter, plumber, prickly pear, Richard Harris, Richard Madewell, Rolling Stones, Sarah Ellsworth, sheep herder, Spring, Sticky Fingers
Posted by admin on April 6, 2012 in
Dust Storms,
Musings The wind blows in Idaho this time of year. Totes the angry vestiges of another aging winter. Grass leans, limbs break, birds balance in the tops of aspen branches that tilt away from the gales that holler off the east Oregon desert. Time moves east to west around here, the wind sweeps west to east [...]
Tags: Alamogordo, Apache, Arizona, Avignon, Black Range, Cloudcroft, Gila, hurricanes, Idaho, New Mexico, Palais de Papes, San Andres Mountains, Sonoran Desert, Spring, storms, typhoons, Western Bar, Western Cafe, white sands, wind
