Posts From The Road: A Day On Steptoe Butte
The Palouse: A single farmhouse and barns stand surrounded by the unique and beautiful Palouse landscape. The brownish areas are the only areas not planted in this photo. The green crops are almost all wheat while the bright yellow fields are canola. Canola blooms have bright yellow blooms and the seeds in the blooms are used to make canola oil. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Up Close: A long telephoto lens brings the view up close. This view of the wheat crops create an abstract view of the landscape. Almost every foot of the Palouse has a crop planted on it unless the slope is too steep as seen Read More
Fr. Glenn: Gratitude For Freedoms
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Well, we hope you have a joy-filled, fun and safe Independence Day on this long weekend for many. A lot of people protesting this year because of a Supreme Court ruling not going the way they preferred, but one of the biggest things we celebrate on this annual holiday is our freedom TO protest; many people around the world do not have that freedom, and would be brutally crushed and persecuted should they dare even speak against the government. Remember Tiananmen Square? And neither can many peoples travel either abroad or within their own nations without official permission, Read More
Ryan Smeltzer Is Best Predictor In Weekly Pace Race
Runners gather Tuesday on Burnt Mesa Trail in Bandelier for the ACRR weekly pace race. Courtesy/ACRR
ACRR News:
Ryan Smeltzer was the top predictor in the Atomic City Road Runners, (ACRR) weekly pace race held on Burnt Mesa Trail in Bandelier National Monument with a 17 second differential.
Other accurate predictors were:
- Ted Williams at 20 seconds off;
- Ted Atkins, Senior with a difference of of 30 seconds;
- Valerio Pinchetti recording a 34 second difference; and
- Anders Medin at 36 seconds off.
On the 1 mile course Adrian Medin, 11, was the fastest finisher at 8:27 and Priscila Rosa was the best Read More
Home Country: From The Cow To The Plow
Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
“From the cow to the plow, Dewey,” Windy said, leaning on a shovel. Windy Wilson was on another of his “helper days” and today it was Dewey Decker’s turn to be helped.
“What do you mean, Windy?”
“You know … a slogan for the business. From the cow to the plow. Fertilizer. Farming.”
He was helping Dewey spread some product around at Mrs. Simmons yard, helping her anticipate a greener lawn this summer. Besides enriching the English language at every possible moment, Alphonse “Windy” Wilson devotes one day each week to helping someone, for free, here in the valley. He usually Read More
Home Country: The Lunker
Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
Doc didn’t expect any patients before 10 o’clock this morning, so he was up and coffee’d and gone by 6:30. Lewis Creek. The Lunker’s hole on Lewis Creek.
The Lunker is a huge rainbow trout that everyone knows about and no one has caught. So far he has resisted flies, worms, salmon eggs, spinners, and even an imitation mouse that Dud tossed in there one time just to see if the Lunker had a bass’s appetite.
Fish aren’t really all that bright, but the Lunker seems to deserve membership to Fish Mensa. No matter how fine the leader a guy used, it didn’t fool him. Trying to figure out Read More
Gruninger: Meaning Behind Namaste, Jai Bhagwan, OM
Namaste. Courtesy photo
By JACCI GRUNINGER, MS, C-IAYT
Los Alamos
If you’ve taken yoga before, you probably noticed that at the end of class we bring our hands together and say Namaste and/or if you’ve taken class with me, I say Jai Bhagwan. In India, these words and hand posture/mudra are common ways of saying hello and goodbye. Jai Bhagwan is specifically used in the upper northwest area of India known as Gujurat, which is where my tradition of yoga hails.
It’s important to remember that Sanskrit words often have many meanings. If we break down the word Namaste into its parts, we get Namah, As and Read More
Life After 50: Day Trippin
The Bavarian Inn in Custer, S.D. Courtesy/Bernadette Lauritzen
By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Executive Director
LARSO
When I was young, if you said someone was “trippin” that meant they were crazy.
After two years in a pandemic, we needed a real trip and something meaningful. Crazy to think that a trip to Mount Rushmore is a day trip, but we made it. If you stop halfway, make it Northglenn, Colo., just the loveliest place. If you do, you must eat at Cinzetti’s for cannoli, beet salad and arancini. Then visit the little park just to see the Veteran’s Memorial.
Once arriving in Custer, we day tripped for Read More
