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The (Not So) Wild Ponies of Virginia’s Grayson Highlands
No, that’s not a wild pony. That’s Dozer! I see how you might make that mistake though… Four years ago in mid-October, I spent a memorable weekend camping on Assateague Island with a group of friends...
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May Your Boulders Be Your Blessings
Bouldering in the slot canyon at Tent Rocks, New Mexico Every time I go for a hike, I leave a note on my dashboard that says where I’m going and when I plan to be back, along with my initials and my...
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Xmas 2012: Photos For Friends
Drew in the Grand Canyon I’ve had a long standing policy against buying friends and family things for Christmas. Most people already have more than enough stuff. I’d rather make a point to share...
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The Blonde Coyote: 2012, in review
In 2012, I turned 30 and hit my 50th state! Bring on 2013! Hey Everybody! I’m winding down 2012 in a rare state of relative repose, spending these last chilly days of the year hanging out with my...
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The Blonde Coyote Freshly Pressed, Again!
The Blonde Coyote on the windy summit of Madrid Mountain Hey Everybody, Yesterday, the Blonde Coyote was Freshly Pressed for the fifth time! My water conservation post “The Weight of Water” caught...
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Galisteo Love Letter
The Gate to the BLM Not far from my place is a tract of land owned by the Bureau of Land Management. BLM land is public land; it belongs to you and me. One eighth of the landmass of the United States...
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Return to Rocking Horse
Rocking Horse Shadow Self Portrait When I count up the states I’ve called home – PA, OR, MD, NM, MT, MI, WV, ME, VA – I don’t usually count Florida, though I lived there for four months, years ago, in...
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Not All Blogs That Wander Are Lost
A tree older than the written word in the California Sierras My, how time flies! I’ve now been writing the Blonde Coyote blog for almost two years and after more than 360 posts, I’m in no danger of...
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A Friend in Wounded Knee
The least of my worries in Pine Ridge The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota is infamous: this was the site of the Massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 and in the 1970′s, a series of...
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Cowboys Are My Weakness*
Jeans & Boots, Chaps & Spurs One of my projects while I’m here in New Mexico has been to print up a series of my rodeo photos from last summer to show at the Jezebel Gallery in Madrid, NM. I...
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Grand Canyon Retrospective: Day 5- Bright Angel Snowstorm!
In September 2011, I visited the Grand Canyon for the second time in my life and a wintertime postcard in the North Rim gift shop convinced me I needed to see the Canyon in the snow. On the fifth and...
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Grand Canyon: Surviving Supai
Almost there! Havasu is not a place for solitude. People have been living here for over a thousand years and the human presence is palpable, even downstream, past End Falls and Beaver Falls, on the...
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Crossing Paths: Ten Horses
Desert Traffic Jam Now that spring has sprung and the days are warming up I’ve switched to my summer schedule: hiking at sunrise and sunset, to avoid the heat and the rattlesnakes. The other morning,...
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Filly Lost & Found: A Mother’s Day Post
Lost filly near Hole in the Wall, Wyoming A year ago yesterday, in Wyoming, one of my childhood dreams came true. Somewhat lost on back roads, searching for Butch Cassidy’s Outlaw Cave in the middle of...
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Friday Night Lights Over Alamosa
I don’t plan my summers around rodeos, but I always seem to find myself in the right place at the right time a few times each season. Late June into July is known as “Cowboy Christmas” because of the...
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Donkey Dreaming At Fairplay Burro Days
Two of the stars of “Burro Days” On Sunday, I drove through Fairplay, Colorado, which I imagine is normally a pretty quiet mountain town. Not last weekend. A banner along the main drag declared it...
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Me & My Shadows: Four Corners
Shadow Self-portrait at Upheaval Dome, Canyonlands, UT You may have noticed, I take a lot of pictures. I’m addicted to this 3-pound weight always hanging around my neck. If I’m outside, it’s with me...
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Blanca BLM
Erstwhile elk in front of Blanca Funny how when you don’t have anywhere specific to go, you usually end up going in circles. I’ve spent the summer driving lazy loops around southern Colorado – I have...
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Accounting For All the Pretty Horses
Mustangs At Auction Two summers ago I did something reckless: I went to a wild horse and burro auction in Bernalillo, New Mexico. I managed not to place any bids, but I fell in love many times over....
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Filly Lost & Found: A Mother’s Day Post
Lost filly near Hole in the Wall, Wyoming Two years ago, in Wyoming, one of my childhood dreams came true. Somewhat lost on back roads, searching for Butch Cassidy’s Outlaw Cave in the middle of...
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