Clifton Copper Civilization Savers

The agricultural community is as frisky as a cowboys’ fingers tugging on the latches of a bustle fit snug on a girl that this rodeo roping expert just has to have.

Arizona River Cheat Sheet

There are cowboys and cowboy hats, there are barrel racers and barrel racing loving cowboy hatted skirt chasers.

Mop Up of the Odd Item or Two

Liz Taylor hopping into the sack with Richard Burton seems as I recall having been a topic of watercooler gossip for most of a whole decade.

Talent’s Lending Library

We say good morning from Sonoita, Arizona. I was overnight 15 miles west in Patagonia. Dinner hour was shared with an 88 year old poet, a modern day vaudevillian, the showman’s stalwart wife and pair of Golden retrievers. Creative personalities are not rare. I’ve a broader definition now, the club isn’t so exclusive, a great […]

Boat as Soul Repair

Think of a boatyard as mansplaining paradise. Here is located a sanctuary where being told how to do a thing right the first time is near divine guidance.

just your average week

I went to bed with the Calder Fire threatening South Lake Tahoe. I woke up instead to a Supreme Court burning down a woman’s right to reproductive health care.

The revenge of hubris

Right off the bat you need to know the odds of making it to the end was near zero.

Let the garden speak

Madrones are notorious for being difficult and this is believed to be a perfect fit since I am so difficult myself.

climate’s cosmic joyride

There was this bizarre-Apocalypse Now- sense of going upriver hunting for a Brando gone wildfire mad.

last stop everyone off

The San Tan Valley exploded onto the map going from a population of near zero to 96,000 in just 20 years.