This post has morphed to mystery status! Previous content under evaluation. (We work with live ammo around here, ya know.) Enjoy this New Mexico totem. And yes, I really did find it in a tree. You can read the story in my TAOS SOUL book. It’s the last chapter, actually: “Piñon Lift,” which almost gives the game away.
Skull City

Found this in a tree on a deserted mesa
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John Hamilton Farr lives in 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.” See BUFFALO LIGHTS, TAOS SOUL, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, and THE HELEN CHRONICLES. He has been publishing online since 1996 (Zoo Zone, Farr Site, MacFaust, GRACK!, FarrFeed). This JHFARR.COM site is the master online writing archive. Links to all current sites including NFT collections at linktree. To email John, please see CONTACT INFO on About page.
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