It was decided on Monday that we would run up to Santa Fe to the International Folk Art Museum. I didn’t really care where we went or what we did. I just didn’t personally want to drive. And after Sandia Man Cave, I decided to ask that we exclude back roads. A friend once told me…
Author: Michael
Sandia Peak
I had originally wanted to take the tram up to the peak. But Greg had made the suggestion to go to Sandia Man Cave afterwards. And that required some serious back road driving down a path that only horses should have been allowed to traverse. Amazingly, his CNG powered, dual-fuel, 8×8, behemoth, 6-ton Ford didn’t…
Tripping
The saying goes, “Things happen for a reason”. Of course that saying is an affirmation of god’s plan for us and as such a denial of free will. It’s more accurate to say that people can invent a reason for anything. My favorite invention is that god is a failed sit-com writer. It explains a great…
A Moving Experience
My family moved to Lawton in 1968. Growing up in Seattle, my mother married into the military and wound up in Arkansas first. When she heard that Lawton had mountains, she was glad to be moving out of the foothills. When she saw that they were only mountains based on a geological description, she just…
May Fair 2015
The May Fair is an Art’s and Crafts fair that’s hosted every year by the Assistance League. Most years, the weather is not kind to them. This year was the exception. Also an exception this year was the number of artists who gave me permission to photograph their work. Only two objected. I respect that….