A(w) Photo Essay

WARNING: Cats' eyes are different. They're made to let in lots of light. When shooting cats, set your pocket camera to "never flash," use a manual mode on your DSLR, or turn off any auto-flash in your camera's options menu. (Animals which do well at… Read full post »

O: Welcome. So where do you come from?

S: Western New Mexico, sir. Near the Arizona border on what they call the "back road to Phoenix." By them I mean overweight truck drivers. I'm a little nervous, sir - I meant drivers of overweight trucks. It's a regular C.W. McCall situation.

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We've grown so accustomed to drought that an average winter might seem like the blizzard of the decade. The trick around here is to get storm after storm and really pile it up for the spring thaw. Failing that, as happened last winter, each moderate snowfall mostly evaporates in… Read full post »

For us, the two mother sauces are red and green chili. This is not "truckers' chili." Green is made from the meat of the pepper as is the best red. More commonly, though, the red is made from dried chilies ground up, skins and all, or from a powder commercially available.… Read full post »