Photographer/writer: Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Salida’s Stage Left Theatre Company is presenting “Winners” from their 2014 Original One Act Play Competition. The three winning plays are “Ernie’s Fanny” by Wilbert Turner, Jr. of Perkasie, PA (directed by yours truly,...
Last week someone told me to go to Twin Lakes to see the fall foliage colors. Then I saw Salida writer and photographer Joe Stone’s Twin Lakes photos in The Mountain Mail, and on...
The bumper sticker on a pick-up truck in the parking lot said, “If you don’t have a border collie, you just have a dog”. After attending my first sheepdog trial — the Meeker Classic...
Mark Kneeskern posed for this photo on June 27, 2014 in the AltWalk venue during Salida ArtWalk. This morning I read the horrible news in The Mountain Mail that artist Mark Kneeskern was hit...
Circa 1994, when my daughter Jessica was about 7 years old, she and I drove from San Diego to Tamarack Cross Country Ski Resort on Lake Mary, a short drive from Mammoth Mountain Resort. ...
David Larcom, mural artist extraordinaire, wrote a very peculiar letter to the Mountain Mail on July 23, sparse on facts, but long on innuendo. He suggests that poor David Larcom is being discriminated against...
Selective listeners welcomed CDOT traffic engineer Mike McVaugh’s June 16 presentation to City Council about Highway 50 speed limits and bike lanes. You can listen to the entire two hour meeting (or any portion...
Salida is spilling over with hobby and master gardeners. I am blessed to live on a street with many beautiful cottage gardens that are mine to enjoy every time I step outside. I happened...
I no longer shop for Mother’s Day cards. My mother passed away a couple of years ago. But for many years prior to her passing, I had fun calling her home on Mother’s Day,...
[incolumn]Two years ago I wrote a review of a regional theater’s production of “Doubt: A Parable” by John Patrick Shanley. The review began like this: “What is great theater? “Here’s my definition: The combination...