Betty’s

Betty’s Shack, Dallas TX, c.1940, Hayes Collection, Accession Number: PA76-1/20361.1, Dallas History & Archives Division, Dallas Public Library.

For the past three or four years, I’ve made it a tradition to read stuff by Fred Buechner while I’m on vacation in the mountains. It’s always a thought-provoking treat.

Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey

It is by its content rather than its duration that a child knows time, by its quality rather than its quantity–happy times and sad times, the time the rabbit bit your finger, the time you had your first taste of bananas and cream, the time you were crying yourself to sleep when somebody came and lay down beside you in the dark for comfort. Childhood’s time is Adam and Eve’s time before they left the garden for good and from that time on divided everything into before and after.

Here Comes the Sun

Apple Paul

Mr. L.N. Headlee, rancher and artist

Love Can Last

21 June 1980

45 years

Backlit Archie

Morning

Evening

They Don’t Make Spokesanimals Like this Anymore

No Kings Protest, Alamosa, Colorado (pop. 9,888), 14 June 2025