Life in Nevada

I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone... --Simone de Beauvoir



Pompeii the Traveller leaves Minnestoa, bound for...









Nevada!












our bathtub at the Ranch












Lamoille Canyon


















brand new shoes















































































semi-wild horses in the front yard (my buddy, Niije, in the front)









the water here is over the alkali flats, only about 2 or 3 inches deep... looking toward mt. tenabo from the crescent valley road












"you see, the trouble with gophers is..."












me and carrie






















the carfire.







the ranch from the East side




laundry is an epic battle












our solar panels! thank you, Honor the Earth!!












inside my trailer.












winter was bleak.














































the big house after our whitewash












the things you find at eye level...









cortez gold mine main pit -- over 900' deep at the time, a mile across and a mile and a half wide. and growing 24/7.

























































wildfire just outside Elko












wild horses near the ranch












learning to stand.












the wind took my porch roof... or what was left of it anyway.


























the ranch.









it finally rains (looking out at Crescent Valley)






























one of the junkyards.




































sun goes down on a gold rush town














Wyeth outpost in Crescent Valley









my van! (broken down in Julie's yard)





































at the western shoshone national council meeting












clifford & i worked hard!








































































clifford and antje









my buddy Niije














...and now some photos that never made the email...









inside the big house


from my trailer porch (photo by antje)





the next 5 photos are all from a trip we took to Death Valley to visit Corbin at Poo Ha Bah







































































after the roundup















me and poops (the cutest steak ever!)






carrie and her brand new great-granddaughter









sandy and i in lamoille canyon




lamoille canyon






































sandy and jaybird












we can't be trusted in an empty courtroom.














more of the carfire



















coming out of the solar panel battery shed (photo by antje)







hay season & i've been making bales
















driving back to the ranch after a bath (photo by antje)





my trailer












writing to clifford (photo by andreas)














Pompeii moves to Colorado


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