Geographically Yours

Make art a part of the world you live in. Take something ordinary and make it extraordinary. Take the mundane and make it right brain - or i...

What do we put on a pedestal in American culture? Trucks. They represent a working-class life that parallels another icon of American cultur...

Odds  and Evens,  Ones  and Twos,  Singles  and Doubles, Which one be You? Here is one singular, young artist whose masterpiece was so good ...

The whole fossil fuel era is beginning to look a lot like this forlorn gas pump. Anyone else remember the days when there was only regular, ...

♫ These Are a Few of My Favorite Things ♫ ~ Post Offices : A place is not a place until it has a name , and the one place you could count on...

In Clovis, the world is within your grasp. Most global sculptures are located downtown. This one, however, is located on the main drag out o...

Route 66 , which passed through New Mexico, wasn't just a ribbon of macadam. It was a string of pearls, only some of which, like the ...

It's the 2nd day of the 2nd month of 2020, so let's continue to celebrate the number 2! What better place to celebrate than at t...

Today is Hallowmas, a day to honor all saints now in heaven. To that end, families may spend part of the day in cemeteries, even small ...

Autumn comes to even the loneliest of trees in the drylands of the Southwest. The mystery is not: "Why did the tree come ablaze wi...

In the American Southwest, barns are not quite as essential as they are in climates that are colder and rainier. When older ones appear...

Northeastern New Mexico gets less than 20 inches of precipitation a year. That's a bit too little to grow pumpkins on a large scale. ...

Winter is white. Spring is yellow. Summer is green. Autumn is orange. And, there is nothing more orange than a pumpkin patch. This one ha...

Here is Blake, Trudeau 's American cousin, dressed in his own national colors, of course. Many, many of his large, extended family ha...

Dancing at the Spanish Market : "Baila como si nadi estuviera mirando. Ama como si nunca te hubieran lastimado. Canta como nadie est...

Eating at the Spanish Market: The festival may be sponsored by the Spanish Colonial Arts Society, but most of the food is perfectly cont...

Spinning at the Spanish Market: It happens in the summer on the plaza in old town. The weekend festival attracts artists and craftsmen li...

The crape myrtle should be called the 'fireworks tree.' Why so popular? The flowers (1) come in almost infinite shades of red and...

Cities succeed by making an urban settlement fabric feel a little more rural. Planners do that whenever they add green space, leafy trees...

Pigeons on a platter provide a snack for a tyrannosaur . Not a rex (or an Alex ), but his little cousin from Canada. Another cousin: vel...