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El Capitan, Guadalupe Mountains National Park Which do you like better, I was asked the other day, Â riding or writing? Riding, I...


Mouse Canyon, Big Bend Nat'l Park, Tx
Weather in Big Bend is a work of art. The light-play on velvet, mountains stretched across a powder blue sky, only a thin rake of clouds...


Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, AZ
This isn’t a story about finding yourself, there are enough of those already. I am the woman I always was; she is simply untethered now....


Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, AZ
We make our way over to High Gates Road, cutting across this valley of tumbleweed and cactus, of open grasslands under a cobalt sky, and...


What do you see, he asked?
I sent photos of mountains with their little white caps, of rolling fields of gold, of sun-warmed foothills and glowing waves. Then I...


Las Cienegas NCA / Empire Ranch, AZ
Between Cedar and Oak Tree Canyon a heifer shuffles off, her molasses licking disrupted by our approach. Her body a rug of black, her...


To find your core, that is the thing.
When I was a girl, my favorite color was tulle. The blush of a tutu. The satin of a pointe shoe. I believed. When I was a young woman, my...


November ’24: Sierra Vista Trail – Anthony Gap, NM
If you drive to the far west tip of Texas, if you brave Interstate 10 and unending desert highways, you will be rewarded with views of...


In the Black of the Night
Black Gap WMA, TX I set out to erase a memory last weekend - it’s not the first time – repeating a trip taken before, rinsing to remove...


Riding the Border: Lajitas Trails in Big Bend, Texas
From Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River, the Comanche Trail runs south to Fort Stockton / Comanche Springs and there, if you veer...


Horsehead Crossing, Pecos River, TX - Oct '24
Sometimes you must ride through the bones of the past to see the pure sparkling brilliance of the future. It seems such a simple thing,...


Edward Sargent Wildlife Management Area, Chama, NM
What makes a cowgirl? The hat? The boots? The horse pushing and spinning until the herd has settled and all are found? No. Cowgirl is a...


Gabaldon Horse Camp, Apache Sitgreaves National Forest, AZ
If you travel enough eventually the names of places, natural and unnatural, begin to repeat – forming some kind of staccato rhythm as you...


I float.
Five feet above the rusty ground, swaying with each step of the horse like the rolling tides of the ocean that seems so very far away in...


Valles Caldera National Preserve, NM
The ravens followed us, I’m sure of it, moving off their perch on a nearby hog trap and into the pines. And the dandelions are bigger...


April 13, 2024 – Las Cienegas to Geronimo’s Trail, Peloncillo Mountains
It’s colder today, no doubt a function of yesterday’s wind, but at least it has ceased for now. I imagine it carries a constant presence...
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