This is not a fable. Yesterday I went for a hike around Witch's Rock and the Fairy Hills, here in the San Luis Valley near the Rio Grande River. The Fairy Hills ( and the nearby Brownie Hills ) can be

Farm / Ranch images The map shows our irrigation pivots..or at least some of them.

A bit of lighthearted viewing. These signs are from my home area in the San Luis Valley. This one is to beware of wild horses This, of course is to be careful driving near Amish buggies This sign means

Yep, we raise grass fed, grass finished beef on about 7000 acres. That also means we raise crops. Gotta feed those hungry fellers. ( we only do steer so we don't have any spring babes anymore ). We are

Celtic cross season holiday. The fire celebration /ceremony companion to the autumn Samhain. Burn the spring fires and bring on the summer.

This is a brief post. These two images were taken at sunrise of the crescent moon and Venus ( she's very tiny and hard to see ) right before the New Moon. It is a rare day that we don't have some dramatic

I’m back after a wee bit of an absence. The weather is still wild here in the San Luis Valley. Windy, as usual but signs of Spring. There are so many intriguing places to explore around here. I luckily

Our place in the San Luis Valley is nicknamed Z casa or Casa Zorro. This is due to the proximity of foxes. When we started renovation about a year ago, there was a dead fox on the land. Not a bad totem

This group of images is from the family farm. Well, I say family, and it is. Father and three sons…..and investors. Thanks goodness. About 6000 acres producing grass-fed grass finished beef. We also are

We are r e m o t e . When we first moved here I had access to a nice little red pick up. That's our dog Farley takin' in the shade. Within a couple of years, that truck was lent to our farm hands and

The last post was Shameless Skies. This post contains a few sky painting I’ve done from my Ceilo series. They are 18” x 18” mixed media and are inspired by the celestial shenanigans that take place here

When in doubt, walk outside. One of the true glories of living in a desert valley surrounded by mountain ranges, is that the sky is almost always stunning. It is a rare day, despite the weather, that there

ADOBE ABODE We live in an adobe house originally built around 1860. It is located in the historically rich San Luis Valley in Colorado. We recently purchased the house and land to be near our family grass

The spring migration of the Sandhill Cranes to the San Luis valley is a notable phenomenon. These birds are one of the oldest living species still in existence dating back 50 million, yes million years.

Winters can be ferocious in the San Luis Valley, although this year was unusual because of the massive amounts of snow. Always there is the wind, but this year there were epic snowstorms as well. Many

Welcome to my blog of life in the high desert of the San Luis Valley, Colorado. My family raises grass fed/finished beef here and I live in an adobe house built in the 1860’s. We are remote enough that