back, but flat…
Back to the mountains, hotter and smokier than this indicates,
in a house built by girls,
with solar-powered food-[and herb]-producing greenhouses just over the hill for our salads as
in Gardner the Saturday farmer’s market is much-diminished [the farmer taking, depending on your point of view, a much deserved or midlife crisis sabbatical] though the Post Office
and El Depot remain, as does, new addition, Mary Ann’s difficult-to-extract-from-cars Kiku;
Also, el estudio,
fossils on the trail.
and Dean, keeping the 4D faith alive in his dome-icile…
Other scenes seen,
snouts intersected…
and after a week we make a first trip to town, Pueblo, a good loyal adherent to fossil fools with
not one but TWO coal-fired generating plants [despite three token windmills conspicuously sited though rarely online next to the Interstate San Isabel continues to penalize rooftop solar heavily, albeit not as effectively as Nevada where the power company had the clout to ram a bill through the legislature so onerous it had suppliers and installers fleeing the state in droves until two years later when, despite massive corporate investments to perpetuate the abomination, the voters sent it down in flames].
But Pueblo; triple digits! 1956! The cherry duchess of Windsor next door to Loco Liquor…
After our usual lunch at Jorge’s [tacos de camarones; pork and avocado burritos not shown] and a stop at Gaglano’s Sicilian Deli we went home to what remained of
…the day after the Fourth of July.
As an aside, 07 07; Jerry Brown at the G20! Wotta guy, hey?
looks hot and a bit lethargic but maybe that’s me projecting how I feel here in overheated BC…
No idea that Red Wing was making saddle boots. Nevada Power which led the lobbying to charge solar installations is owned by Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffet. Go figure??
Not Red Wings – those are Timberlands…
I was very most gratified to see the successful pushback on the solar [we’re all PV all the time at Wall Spring]. On that subject there’s a great article in the June 26 New Yorker [“Power Brokers”] about off-grid solar in Africa…the Future; you can’t take down a grid if there ain’t one to hack [my interpolation].
Love the triple entendre contained in the phrase “fossil fools”. This will be added to my repertoire.
Run with it!
The tacos de camarones look a lot like fireworks to me. I’m finding I can’t put any more attention to our political life. I think it just caps a slow rot that has been setting in since Reagan put his tax cuts through. Burning heat in the deserts and fires burning in the forests, and oil rushing through pipelines across the continent in all conceivable directions. Are we supposed to be able to make sense of all this? Only if you have an MBA does it make sense. You don’t show much of this but it seems to me to be the underlying thrust.
Read Naomi Klein’s “No is Not Enough” yet? She makes sense of all its depressingly disgusting details and still comes out with…cautiously…hopeful solutions. Maybe.
…wingtip bucks…rock.
can’t see a cow without thinking of llyn foulkes…
Every time I look at one of those photos with tree shadow on grass, I relax.