It’s finally arrived! No wait, the sun just went behind a cloud, never mind. That’s the way it is around here, on the edge of slamming cold any day of the year. That’s why the sun is so important, otherwise no one could live at 7,000 feet. And yes, that is a big elm tree growing up from under the adobe wall and shattering the cement stucco, why do you ask? TAOS, chilluns! If the tree goes, so do the wall and the gas lines. Fall down, blow up, yee-haw! They invented bio-degradable architecture here, it’s still the rage.
I just swept the rocks today. Can you tell?
John Hamilton Farr lives at 7,000 feet in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, U.S.A. As New York Times best-selling author James C. Moore tells it, John is “a man attuned to the world who sees it differently than you and I and writes about it with a language and a vision of life that is impossible to ignore.” This JHFARR.COM site is the master writing archive. To email John, please see CONTACT INFO on .png)