There’s a Saturday farmers market, and I bought some very fresh, clean goat milk panela, russian kale, radishes, garlic scapes, young broccoli, Aracana hen eggs.
\nFarmers like everywhere. Many beautiful Gaia types.<\/p>\n
Everybody here is really friendly. Not shit-grin friendly, but genuinely happy to stop and talk. Lots of benches around town, and people swapping stories outside the plenitude of cafes. There’s a breeze but it’s freaking hot, so best\u00a0 move slow. No getting whirled.<\/p>\n At the Silver City Museum, the super friendly volunteer at the desk asked me where I am from. When I said Brooklyn, he told me he lived in Staten Island in the 1970s. “What did you do there?” “I was in a cult. Children of God. Criminals.” I know a bit too much about them from one of my students<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bought some supplies at the co-op, another friendly place, with reasonable prices (versus my $5.65 latte this morning) on bulk, elixirs, organics,\u00a0 probiotics, and limes… I’m gonna eat nothing but elixirs and raw vegetables.<\/p>\n Western New Mexico University Museum<\/a> has a very large collection of Mimbres pottery. It’s in a beautiful cavernous old wooden building on campus, but I was not allowed to take any pictures.The displays are old-school archeology with big run-on sentences in all-caps vinyl letters that explained everything so well. I wonder why the pots selected for display omit the birth scenes, and the luridly huge-phallused pieces and copulations, or any predators (like bear).<\/p>\n There was heat and altitude to collapse from… I drove to buy some beer and also up Pinos Altos, in the direction of the Gila Cliff Dwellings (which are closed because of the fires). I went about 20 miles north, to the start of the Trail of the mountain Spirits or some such. and saw the old Pinos Altos mining town,\u00a0 and then stopped for a micro hike. Turned out to be the Continental Divide trail… I got about 50 yards\u00a0 when I flushed a group of vultures who wheeled low and fast around me, seemingly annoyed. The wind and crickets were symphonic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thanks Walmart. There’s shade and a party in this hat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today’s bag was full of:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-Shot-2012-06-02-at-9.07.00-PM.png\" "\\"Screen")
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\nnothing like a siesta…<\/p>\n
\nI crossed the continental divide,<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n