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Tag Archives: Arizona History
What a Show This Will Be!
You know that Arizona is on the national map when the New York news channels start talking about the awesome spring flowers that are about to appear! Generally, especially with the weather news, we are, to put it in cow vernacular, sucking on the hind tit. Are there storms in the east? More than well covered. Frost in Florida … heat wave in Chicago …mud slides in California… you bet you hear about it…. global warming, global cooling, long and short summers – we are treated to it all, as long as it doesn’t concern the south west. Perhaps they think we are still a part of Mexico, before the Gadsden Purchase? Continue reading
Fiesta de los Vaqueros
I am looking forward to a riot of wildflowers due to the lovely rains in January, and I wonder how many of you know that a seed can live in this desert earth for up to 200 years without germinating – and then, when it gets some rain just at the right moment, it bursts out with a flower you’ve never seen before! I remember one year when almost overnight all the bushes on the mountains became entwined with long, thin tendrils of green covered with the most delicate, tiny mauve bells, so that each manzanita bush looked like it was shrouded in gauzy veils. Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona History, arizona wild flowers, desert rains, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horses, nature, ranch life, Tucson Rodeo
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The Sonoita Cowboy
As I am sure all of you know by now from my last two postings, we have had wonderful rains this January, totaling to date an exciting 4.8 inches, which should make for some spectacular spring wildflowers. Some of the moisture came in the form of snow, and, as much as I hate to be cold, I thought that the attached photo of the cattle ranch headquarters under snow is too beautiful not to share with you. Continue reading
The Life of a Vaquero
How time flies when you’re having fun!! Our fun at the moment is more rain – following on from last week’s news. So far we have had 3.70 inches for January, which may not seem much to you, but to the high desert it’s bounty indeed. When the first day’s rain was over, I rode up to the South Fork Tank, high up in the Noonan Canyon. Predictably, it was… Continue reading
Posted in Did You Know, Latest News
Tagged Arizona History, chaparreras, cowboy boots, desert rains, dogs, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horses, jaquima, la reata, Noonan Canyon, ranch life, valquero
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Indian Days
And so, guess what – news, news! As I sit here, it is raining! And you wet land rats, who probably grump at the sight of a cloud in the sky, don’t realize what a blessing it is, to us in the high desert, to get some rain! It has rained for a day and a bit now, and in that time we got over 2.50 inches of rain, and the tanks in the Flats, which were all empty but one, have filled up with just this one bonanza! Just as well, as if they hadn’t, we had every prospect of having to water the cattle out of our domestic well, not a very nice thought at all. Continue reading
If You Have a Wedding In Mind, Give Us a Call!
We had an exciting time on the ranch last week, beginning with a cattle round up on Sunday, and followed by corral work and pregnancy testing on Monday. (Check it out on YouTube, on the Grapevine Canyon Ranch channel, and see my step daughter, Sally, who is an obstetrician, taking her turn at pregnancy checking cows!! You will see this is quite a different approach to a human… Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona History, guest ranch, horseback wedding, horses, ranch food, ranch life, romantic getaways, weddings
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Rodeo Days
I would say that fall is definitely on the way – the cottonwoods in the canyon are turning that lovely shade of bronze, and the other day, while driving across the top of the Chiricahua mountains, we drove through groves of sycamores, surrounded by some sort of plant which was the loveliest shade Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona History, grand tetons, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, ranch life, rodeo
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And Yet It Spins!
And so here we are, with the spring round up and branding done, and now heading into the summer. It always amazes me, in spring time and then in the fall, how the fast spinning of the earth is demonstrated by the mornings, which seem to come so early so quickly, and then reverse in autumn. Here we are, light at 5 am and it seems that not long ago Continue reading
Finding The Good
You know those awful junk phone calls you get?? I just got one which still has me puzzled. The man said “Gerald Searle, please” (pronouncing it as you would the word “early”, instead of, as it should be, like the word “pearl” – which always annoys me most unreasonably). I said “I’m sorry, he’s deceased”. And he said, “Oh, OK, we’ll try later.” Hello??? Perhaps Gerry is coming back? That Continue reading
The Butterfield Trail
Photo taken by Preston Sands. Used with permission.
Thank you to Hike Arizona for allowing us to use this image of the Butterfield Trail.
Last time I talked about the Spanish settlers’ early encounter with the Apaches and the history of the San Bernardino Ranch, which took us to the early Continue reading
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Tagged apaches, Arizona History, Butterfield Trail Arizona, Coshise, Hiking Arizona, San Bernadino Ranch
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