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 February 17, 2012 in
Movies,
Musings Last weekend I attended a workshop given by teacher, raconteur, cowboy poet, rope twirler, guitar picker, yodeler and warbler extraordinaire, Ernie Sites. The event was held in downtown Boise and sponsored by Elaine Ambrose of Mill Park Publishing in Eagle, Idaho. I like to write poetry but the cowboy poetry genre often confounds me. I’m [...]
Tags: "Anthem", Buck Ramsey, Cowboy Poetry, cowboys, Elaine Ambrose, Ernie Sites, Houlihan, Mill Park Publishing, movies, poetry, Ray Fred Kelly, Urban Cowboy, writing
Posted by admin on August 26, 2011 in
Books I cleaned my office this last weekend and as I straightened the bookshelves, J Edward Chamberlain’s, Horse (Blue Ridge, New York, NY), fell on the floor. Horse is a narrative that laymen can read about how mankind and the horse have developed a somewhat unique, symbiotic relationship. As I hefted the book, an image of [...]
Tags: Arizona, betting, Casa Grande, Cloudcroft, cowboys, gambling, horse races, horses, hostler, jockeys, Los Conquistadores, New Mexico, pin ball machines, Prescott, quarter horses, Ruidoso, Sierra Blanca, Vietnam
Posted by admin on February 11, 2011 in
Uncategorized Ruby Mountains at Dawn Betty and I just got back from the 27th Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada not too long ago. As always, the event was a moving, powerful experience that I learned long ago to not try and describe to people. The only way you will know the power of [...]
Tags: bald eagle, cottonwood tree, cowboys, Elko, Humboldt River, Independence Mountains, Jiggs, mule deer, Nevada, Ruby Mountains, Spring Creek, sun down, sun up, The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, The Spanish Ranch, Tuscarora, water ouzel, willow
Posted by admin on January 28, 2011 in
Uncategorized South of Aguila we rode out horseback in the evening sweetness of early fall. The mountains north of the ranch jutted up like busted incisors. The ground was pocked with gopher holes and we let the horses pick and choose our route. A covey of Gambel’s quail erupted and sputtered into a mesquite thicket and [...]
Tags: cowboys, Elko, hungarian drovers, Hungary, Nevada, puszta, The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
