It looks like a jungle to me, anyway. After fifteen years in northern New Mexico, I figure if I ever see two contiguous green plants again, I’ll keel right over from the shock.
That bird looks so perfect, like he’s stuffed. Maybe he is stuffed. Doesn’t that look like a diorama? Oh right, who knows what those are anymore. Well, back in the days when the government actually did things, there were these places called museums. You could go inside and see life-sized models of animals and people in these little scenes behind the glass. Actual 3-D, man.
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)
Beautiful ! Ah yes, dioramas. I spent many, many hours in the Natural History Museum in Denver driving my parents crazy with boredom as I imagined myself in the scenes of prehistoric and even historic flora and fauna. I always wanted to design dioramas but didn’t know how to join that world. Here you have it on a walk toward the gorge.
You must log in to post a comment. Log in now.