Monthly:September 2010

Revisiting Slovakia – The Straw Bale Dome Project

One of the highlights of our European tour last summer was getting to know the country of Slovakia – the landscape, the people, it’s food and traditional buildings. Images from the Unesco village of Vlkolinec We were reminded recently of Slovakia when our friend and host from last summer, architect Zuzana Kierulfova (sounds Slovakian doesn’t it?) sent us a blog update about an ambitious 24 day long workshop/project that she coordinated this last month to build a straw bale dome. […]

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Mud Woman Rolls On

Driving from the airport to the downtown metro area of Denver, the first thing that got my attention last week was how dry the landscape appeared compared to green, lush, overgrown southeastern Arizona. Some of our grasses are shoulder-high. Most who think of Arizona, especially during the summer months, would imagine very much the opposite. In fact, the temperatures at home were a few degrees cooler. We were in Denver this past week to meet with the staff of the […]

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Rio Sonora – Regional Folkloric Dance

Back in March I posted some photos of a folkloric dance performance on the plaza in the town of Banamichi on the Rio Sonora. We finally got around to editing some video footage that Athena took while we were there. Took us this much longer than we hoped to edit and post it, not sure what that says about us, but nonetheless, here it is. The performance was memorable, everything about it was right – the setting, the weather was […]

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More Monsoon Driving

I’ve gotten several inquires since my last post about the roads we traveled. So I thought it a good idea to post a map for all to see. Basically our routes north followed the western New Mexico and Eastern Arizona borders. North of Interstate 10, Hwy 180 in New Mexico heads towards Interstate 40 or the old Route 66 while Hwy 191 hugs the eastern Arizona border. I doubt you’ll be able to make out much detail from the map, […]

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Driving Southeastern Arizona’s Monsoon

The monsoon summer of our part of the world has begun winding down, perhaps a little slower than usual. Here in Canelo, our rains began increasing in intensity throughout the month of July and are continuing up to this moment. However, this last series of rains may the swan song for this year’s monsoon that in a typical year ends with the month of August. Speaking of August, the month simply evaporated for us, most of it in New Mexico. […]

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