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Big Bend National Park

The beaver pond at the end of the road

Part of my recording tour of the southwest with Lang Elliott this spring took us to Big Bend National Park.  From a westerner’s perspective, this is the end of the earth.  It’s a long, long ways from anywhere, even by Texas standards.  But this remoteness, incredible topography, and habitat diversity make it a good spot […]

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Retrospective

Well, it’s been quite a while since I posted here, as I’ve been recovering from knee replacement surgery.  Recovery has been quite the ordeal, with hours and hours of physical therapy every day.  But the strength and flexibility is coming back, just in time, as the trees and shrubs are starting to bud, the spring

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Sagebrush Soliloquy

I take my dog for a walk almost everyday, usually to a chunk of BLM land on the east side of town.  The city and BLM have created a small recreation area there, with many trails winding up and around a mountain.  The trails are in a stand of big sage, an ancient stand where

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Changes in latitude

The final days of my fall 2016 border-to-border journey I awoke to a beautiful, calm and sunny morning along Disappointment Creek in Colorado; the silence only broken by a light whisper through the sage brush and a car on the distant highway.  After breakfast, I packed up the car and headed south. I made a

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Till the cows go home

With some writing projects behind me (or at least on someone else’s desk for a while), I finally have some time to get out and do some recording.  In mid May, I headed south to Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, which is a lovely swatch of rolling grassland and riparian areas, only about 25 miles

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