Bethia, a friendly acquaintance, and 2 friends came in the store wearing their helmets. They may be in their sixties but they have bodies like girls of 14 (actually not so many girls of 14 are that lean and toned). A testament to bicycling. They’d just cycled around the reservoir–starting somewhere on the other side [...]
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View From the Balcony
A Sign or a Mural?
Proprietors of a recently established shop in town, selling furniture–some of it antique–interesting oddities and jewelry, decided to decorate the side of the building which housed 4 businesses (now 3), with an antique trompe l’oeil painting they’d acquired at a regional auction. They liked how the subtle grays of the oversized window rendering (there being [...]
Heard and Seen from the Balcony
It’s 7:20 p.m. on Sunday evening (6/28), we’re sipping wine on our balcony and hear a clop-clop-clop sound. A man and a woman are driving by in a cart pulled by two draft horses–maybe Percherons?–and for a second I think the horses might spook as a car approaches in the opposite lane. And then I [...]
Rainy Days Are Fun in Andes
I’ve blogged alot in my head and on various scraps of paper over the last few months. Wonder if I can ethically back-date a few posts. Will ask Randy Cohen when I see him. Meanwhile, this is very current: it’s raining and dreary again, tho it’s the summer solstice, and in our dreams, if not [...]
Coyote Alert
Recent early morning reports at Hogan’s indicate a loud barking presence right in the hamlet, and sightings by rural roadsides of groups of coyotes. There was also a report of a missing pet rabbit on Main Street. Could there be a connection? So the Andes Gazette decided to park a clipboard at Hogan’s where [...]