[ In the foreground, a couple of pine trees & about twenty feet of rock-covered ground. Beyond that, the view opens up, looking down onto dense forest with blue sky above. ] It was SUCH a gorgeous spot. I wish the road to get there weren’t so rough — Tom had Opinions about it, & […]
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[ Bright yellow many-petalled flowers on tall green stalks ] Venus Park, if you take a quick look at it from the road, is a large, rectangular area of green grass that’s obvious watered on the regular, surrounded by brown, scrubby land that’s pretty typical of New Mexico. Take a closer look with me.
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[ A dense patch of relatively young Ponderosa pines, most with trunks less than six inches wide; the ground is deeply covered in pine needles. ] I found a nice thick patch of woods last Tuesday. Sometimes you want an open meadow; sometimes you just want trees.
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Couple days ago I took the boys off into the woods for the day, which was a Very Excellent Decision & which I need to do more often. I gathered SEVERAL ounces of piñon resin & a random bone, & when I came back to the pile later, a tree had added half a pinecone.
… or spikiness, as the case may be. But even the spiky can be beautiful. I knew this flower as Indian Paintbrush but it occurred to me that 1) probably the name is kind of racist & 2) probably the people who lived here first have another name for it so I went looking. The
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We brought home LOTS of treasure. LOOK at all this piñon resin. It’s more than five ounces, & that long piece in the back is an ounce & a half all on its own. I found a cool carved-stone pipe that I kinda love. The horse skull is what I went out to fetch —
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They don’t care, except that Loiosh is getting bored because I haven’t taken him ANYWHERE AT ALL MOM (except for an emergency trip to Albuquerque but more about that later). Mostly their lives are about the same, only with more opportunities to lay on Mom.
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& that’s it for the year! Everyone here at The Vagabond Tabby is gonna take a nice long nap (ngl most of us are asleep already), we’ll celebrate our various winter holidays, & yeah, probably make more soap.
We’ll reopen January 1st, just as soon as someone manages to actually get out of bed.
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