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. [...]
It’s difficult to describe my affinity for dawn in the Texas Hill Country. Already this precious two hours of mornings on Madrono Ranch feel like ritual. The lakeside pasture which, just [...]
Now it wouldn’t be right to stay in Cowboy Country much longer than week without giving more of a nod to the fellows themselves. I’ve seen my share of boots and hats in Bandera [...]
