A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens * Adapted by Richard Hellesen * Music by David de Berry * Directed by Melissa Rain Anderson * DCPA Theatre Company at the Stage Theatre, 12/20/17 Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843. It quickly became such a success that the novella hasn't been out of print since. …
Weekly Photo Challenge: 2017 Favorites
This is a wild juvenile roadrunner, the state bird of New Mexico. For a few weeks this summer, this guy kept following smaller wild birds through the small (5' long x 1' tall) tunnel that my backyard chickens use to move between their coop and run in the backyard and their free range space in …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend
These are dinosaur tracks on a steep hillside in the uplifted rock layers at Dinosaur Ridge, outside of Denver, CO. Runner up: Slightly different view of the same tracks. This photo isn't as clean as the first, but I like the addition of man-made elements, which give the sense of the tracks ascending through …
Day Trip to White Sands National Monument
Over this past Thanksgiving weekend, Mr Metawitches and I took a day trip from Albuquerque down to the White Sands National Monument. The monument is adjacent to Alamogordo, NM and White Sands Missile Range, which will be familiar to history buffs as the location of the Trinity Site, where the first atomic blast in history …
Tucson, AZ and Saguaro National Park Weekend Trip
Over Labor Day weekend 2017 (the 1st weekend in September) we visited Saguaro National Park and stayed in Tucson, AZ. We'd waited until September to take this trip in hopes of avoiding the worst of the summer heat, but Mother Nature had other ideas, so we were out with the cacti and lizards in the 100˚+ …
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The Adventures of Max and Koko, 2 Dogs in the Duke City
This is Max (below). He's very old, going on 15. He's usually in this position, in other words, sleeping, unless someone says his name and the word "walk' in the same sentence. Then suddenly he's a puppy again. Otherwise he's within 5 feet of wherever I am in the house or yard, 10 feet at …
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Albuquerque Old Town Salsa Fiesta
Today, 9/9/17, Albuquerque held its annual Salsa Fiesta in Old Town, the preserved section of an early part of the city, now dedicated to tourism and street festivals. The Salsa Fiesta included live music all afternoon in the plaza, and local salsa vendors making fresh salsa on site for today's competition for best salsa. Tasting …
Weekend Fun in Denver, August 2017
As you know if you read our other bog, Metawitches.com, we recently spent a long weekend in Denver seeing the new Frozen musical. We've written about the musical on Metawitches. Here on Desertwitches, I want to write about the rest of the trip. Rather than give a blow-by-blow, I'm just going to talk about some …
Hidden Gnome Container Garden
I actually have a few ceramic gnomes hidden around my yard, but this is the only one who had a garden created just for him. His petunias are very happy, so he's a little more hidden than I intended! To make this garden, I started with a Behrens 1GS 11 Gallon Round Galvanized Steel Tub. For …
How I Made a Rustic Trellis Using Sticks from the Yard and Wire
Last spring we had our metal porch roof replaced. The roof is now much sturdier and doesn't leak. However, the old roof had the benefit of having vintage metal scrollwork porch supports, which I had painted periwinkle blue, instead of their original black. They made perfect trellises for annual vines to grow on. Now, we …
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