I want some coffee!

  Freight cars moving thru the San Pedro Valley toward he Dragoon Mountains East of Benson Benson, Arizona has been home base since December, 2010. More specifically the RV park named SKP Sagauaro Co-op on the Southeast side of town. The San Pedro Valley - and the San Pedro River that gives it it's name - runs from Mexico to a location just East of Saguaro National Park. It is perhaps 135 miles from the border to its terminus to the north of Benson. The San Pedro River runs thru the valley and is kind of special: it's the only North-flowing river in the US originating in Mexico. Not a lot going on here other than winter RV tourists... that's when the local population swells from 5,000 to about 10,000. There are ranches and small farms in the valley; they make gun powder and explosives just to the South of Benson at Apache Powder; there's some mining; significantly there is Fort Huachuca to the Southwest in Sierra Vista; and there's the railroad.  Southeast of Benso...

The Admiral and I checked out Santa Fe, NM in about Sep 2003. We liked it, found a house and bought it, returned to San Francisco, packed everything, sold her house, then moved to Santa Fe in Dec 2003.  I had reason to be reminded of that time in Santa Fe in a WhatsApp conversation with a friend who is traveling way-far South of the USA in the most Southern part of Chile. I saw a photo on Michael's blog of a restaurant owner (below) wearing a unique vest. The owner's vest caught my eye immediately. That little vignette centers around what I take to be a vest assembled from hand woven wool fabric triggered a recollection of times gone by. Over 20 years earlier... The Admiral has been a knitter a very long time before we met. When we were new to Santa Fe she was on the hunt for wool for a knitting project. One of the places we visited in that search was Miriam's Well in Santa Fe. Miriam had a pretty good selection of yarn but off to the side was a loom for weaving. I as...

This string of pre-dawn shots will stop once sunrise slides out to 0530 cuz I just don't do early ! Plus the weather seems to be on the brink of morphing into too-damned-hot. We have 80°+ coming in the next week. If the weather follows the usual pattern this could well be winter disappearing into the storage locker where it will recover its annoying habits and come visit again this coming November-thru-January.