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THE CLAW hits the road for another journey, this time traveling 1300 miles in 3 days from Medina, Texas to Celo, North Carolina. The first day will be a short haul from Medina to Lorena (just [...]

R’s daughter picked me up in the four-wheeler the other morning and I got to help feed the bison. The only way to illustrate this is photographically, and I’m not sure even that can [...]

Sunrise at Madrono Ranch. Enough said.

The past several days have been a-buzz with activity at Madrono Ranch and I’ve appreciated this for the balance it provides to my fiction-writing process. This morning, the ranch owners [...]

It’s been cooler the past several days, which means I can hop on my mountain bike before dusk and get an hour’s ride in before the world turns grainy and gray. I’m struggling [...]

It’s a special night–the tail end of my residency at Madrono Ranch and the beginning of another artist’s stay. The ranch owners are in town from Austin and have offered to host [...]

A fellow blogger and supporter of mine recently reminded me of a post I wrote a while back that discussed the blind contour line drawing prompt envisioned by Philip Hartigan and Patrician Ann [...]

Somehow I’ve failed to mention that Bandera, Texas is the cowboy capital of the world. Once a town of 3,000 it numbers just under 1,000 today with a quaint main street (Highway 16) and a [...]

There’s something else I enjoy about dawn here at Madrono Ranch and that’s the improvised chorus of Hill Country Aviators, as I like to call them. Or more directly: birds. But not [...]

We’re standing outside in direct sunlight on this 100-degree day and I’m the only one who seems to be sweating. There’s R the ranch manager, myself, and a soil conservationist. [...]