We travel to the New Mexico Museum ...and enounter the Marmons.

Shirley's service...and the tomb is always empty.

You’ll remember I’m writing about our trip to Albuquerque where we were to attend the memorial service of Martha’s good friend, Shirley....

You’ll recall that I’m talking about our recent (short) trip to New Mexico for a friend’s memorial service. And I had just gotten us to...

So I’m picking up from where I left off talking about our trip to New Mexico to celebrate our friend Shirley’s life... We picked up our...

We expected that trip to New Mexico to be hellish. In fact, it was anything but...

How an old friend got us back to New Mexico for reasons both sad and sweet.

A brief sketch of the Linda Yiannakis, a charming person, and a talented writer.

The story of the remarkable Grace Rosanky Jones of Salado, who created a fortune in fashion and kept Salado on the map.

Maybe John Wayne...or at least Westerns...helped Salado survive.

Economically speaking, the town of Salado, Texas, shouldn't exist. The fact that it does, and thrives, requires a bit of explaining.

A tour of some of the shops of Salado, Texas.

As you know, I’m talking about our recent trip to Salado, Texas, a little town a few miles north of here. You’ll recall that last time, I...

So, last time, I was talking about our trip to Salado, a little town about twenty minutes drive from where we live. I had just taken us...

We discover the wonders of Mr. Fletcher's home...art and beauty and more.

In the town of Salado, Texas, we visit the wonderful shop of Mr. Fletcher.

Okay, last time I had just started a new series, this one about a recent day trip of ours to a little town-qua-art & tourist community...

And we head off to Salado, Texas, a tiny town with a big past, and maybe a good sized future as well.

In which I discuss Martha's connection, via her musician father, to San Antonio, and Cole Porter tune, "What is this thing called love."

On my daughter-in-law's link to the landscape art of The Canopy