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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Them Horses
Like them horses that only know how to plow we’re going to the snow … Indeed, to snowplow – to teach skiing In the winter, it’s all we got.
The destruction of the World Trade Center – a cover-up?
Kathy and I visited the World Trade Center in 1983. I have a photo of Kathy on the top of one of the Towers, holding a brochure that is titled: “The closest some of us will ever get to Heaven”. … Continue reading
Bald eagle – first sighting of the winter!
Today, well in advance of the usual schedule, a bald eagle showed up at a favored perch – a riverside dead cottonwood which is visible from the road in Rinconada. My prior post, of 11/20, reported the arrival of the … Continue reading
Rio Grande Fishing and Nature Report
It’s not over yet … but it’s close, I think. The dry fly fishing, I mean. Yesterday afternoon was still and sunny, and the BWO mayflies were coming off in enough numbers to bring lots of fish to the surface. … Continue reading
Posted in Fishing, Photography, Skiing
Tagged Bald eagle, brown trout, BWO mayflies, CDC, dry fly fishing, goldeneye duck, private ski lesson, rainbow gtrout, woolly bugger
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Rio Grande Fishing and Nature Notes
Although the river is still running relatively high (648 cfs today), it has cleared up considerably … and BWO mayflies continue to hatch. Yesterday, I located a pod of rainbows (stockers) that were rising, and fooled a couple with a … Continue reading
Peak Freedom
While doing something else, Kathy turned on a “TED” talk. The presenter was an extremely knowledgeable third-world black woman whose name I didn’t get. The gist of her talk was that the eyes of the undeveloped world were on China. … Continue reading
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Tagged autocracy, capitalist, central-planning, Chiuna, democracy, elite, Greece, individual liberty, middle-class, philosopher king, plutocracy, self-determination, self-expression, slavery
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