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July 26, 2024
Weekly WeatherIn GratitudeAbiquiu Farmer MarketThank you to the anonymous donor that sponsors the Abiquiu Farmer's Market. The Abiquiu Farmers Market operates every Tuesday from 4-6pm during the growing/harvesting season (generally late June through early Fall). The market features fresh produce from local farms, and locally-produced products such as honey and jams, breads and other baked goods, eggs and meats. Located just off of Rt 84 in Abiquiu, directly across from Bode's mercantile, the market is also a place for friends and families to gather and enjoy summer in Abiquiu.
Thank you You support the farmers. You support the community. You bring Abiquiu together Thank you Contributors and Paid SubscribersMary O
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News and FeaturesNote: Our News and Features are offered as links. Click to read full articles. If you missed the News last week, we also include "Previous Features".
New and familiar faces joined forces for the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s 11th annual Abiquiú Garden Project. Under the guidance of Aagapita (Pita) Lopez, Projects Director of Abiquiú Historic Properties, Project Coordinators Josephine Dominguez, a former garden project intern herself, and Randy Garcia. Read More
It’s a beautiful day in the Jemez Mountains.
The early summer morning air is crisp – but not cold enough for a jacket – and dead silent. Above, a couple clouds lazily float across the deep blue sky. Read More
Three months ago, Animal Protection Voters and Española Humane united to file a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by the pet industry challenging Senate Bill 57, a crucial affordable spay/neuter law passed in 2020. Read More
Over the last twenty-five years the Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project has worked diligently for the protection and preservation of the cultural landscape of the northern Rio Grande Valley region. Read More
(Hint: They Rock) Read More
I love butterflies and have always grown perennials that are good pollinators because they attract bees and butterflies as well as providing nectar for my hummingbirds. I also have milkweed plants growing in every open area on my property, and up until recently, used to raise a monarch or two from caterpillar to chrysalis to adulthood. Now that these butterflies are scarce, I no longer do. This year I note that I am seeing fewer butterflies in general, much to my dismay. A couple of exceptions are swallowtails and fritillaries.
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Also known as: Equisetum laevigatum, Horsetail Family (Equisetaceae)
Found in moist, open areas, river banks Seen in July by the Rio Chama Read More
I’m not going to get into all the ways Australia and New Zealand are different from everywhere else in the world. And Tasmania is part of that too. I want to talk about a specific animal, the Tasmanian Tiger. Read More
If you have an older computer that has a mechanical hard drive, then you might consider swapping it out for a Solid State Drive, or SSD. Read More
Previous Features
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham called New Mexico legislative leaders’ bluff, signing a proclamation Wednesday afternoon to demand state lawmakers return to Santa Fe for a mid-year special legislative session scheduled to begin noon Thursday. Read More
When Janice and Michael Quinn bought their property in Rio Chama near Medanales, they were quite intrigued by the strange and decidedly unique structure which was part of it: a small building without any straight lines. It looked like something that had grown out of the earth, with undulating curves, bulbous outcrops, round and colorful windows.
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New Mexico PBS show explores climate change impacts, policies and people who are trying to resolve a changing globe
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Water Managers continue to respond to sediment plug on Rio Chama: State and Federal partners coordinating to ensure safety and access to water
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If you ever want to feel like the cream that has risen to the top of society, while simultaneously reaching the profound realization that you have wasted your life’s potential up to this moment, then I can only recommend going to the opera.
Read More This week we feature a biscotti recipe. Biscotti means twice baked and that's exactly what you'll do. Brian's twin sent us a package of Gluten Free Orange Almond Biscotti. The recipe that follow is adapted from the Minimalist Baker. Read More
Also known as: Mentzelia multiflora, Stickleaf Family (Loasaceae)
Found at roadsides and in dry, sandy areas Seen blooming in July near Hwy 554 Read More
Unfortunately, iPhones need replacing. Just like I never thought I’d spend $7 for a coffee (thank you Starbucks), I never thought I’d spend $1000 for a phone. Now, the phone is way more than a phone, obviously, and that iced decaf americano with 6 pumps vanilla syrup, foam cream and cinnamon is well worth 7 bucks, but how often do I need one?
Read More In Memory - Ingrid Katherina Ringler Jordan
She ventured to New Mexico with her new husband and fell in love with the land, sold her house in California, and together they built an off-the-grid house of rammed earth, with Ingrid wielding the wheelbarrow with great strength, to the top of a hill in Ojo Caliente. She had a special gift for growing things and so provided vegetables for their consumption, all with caught rainwater. She even grew bananas, lemons and limes in her greenhouse.
Ingrid took up rag rug weaving, having taken classes at the El Rito College, and made a plethora of beautiful rugs which she sold all around New Mexico. After having a stroke in 2012 her daughter, Patricia took her with her to Utah, Nebraska and then to Coos Bay, Oregon where she died on May 26, 2024. She is survived by her 3 daughters, Karen Lossing, Patricia Lossing and Monique Stewart as well as many grandchildren. We will miss her can-do-anything attitude and her joy for life! Abiquiu Lake: Fishing for walleye was fair when using jig heads tipped with worms. Contact the Abiquiu Lake Main Office at 505-685-4371 for updated lake conditions and closure information.
Rio Chama: Streamflow below El Vado Lake Monday morning was 486 cfs; streamflow below Abiquiu Lake Tuesday morning was 395 cfs. Please remember, from the river-crossing bridge on U.S. Highway 84 at Abiquiu upstream 7 miles to the base of Abiquiu Dam is special trout waters with a bag limit of only two trout. Survey:
If possible, give specific names to locations of photographs taken in Abiquiu area. Answer: We're asking our photographers to include location information when providing images. This week's image by Mario Manzo was taken on Monastery Road near the Big Eddy takeouit. Also, if you have a story to tell, send it in. If you want, interview your friend, relative, teacher, co-worker. If you think it would be interesting, I bet other people would too. Give it a try and send something in to us. Carol Bondy Scene Around TownSend us your local images. Send to AbiquiuNewsImages@gmail.com Please send images under 1mb. My inbox will thank you. ~Carol
Art, Music and BooksCall for Artists / Food VendorsWe are looking for food, and arts & crafts vendors for our Santa Rosa fiestas in Abiquiu on August 24, 2024.
Email Carmen This year, in addition to artist donations, we are accepting gift certificate donations from local & regional businesses for shopping, dining, lodging, workshops, etc. If you or someone you know would like to contribute this type of donation, please email us at artscouncilabiquiu@gmail.com - the deadline is August 1.
STUDIO TOUR MEMBERS: ARTWORK DONATION DROP-OFF IS AT CAFÉ SIERRA NEGRA - DEADLINE IS THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 Donations should not exceed 5” x 7”. Please see our email sent on the evening of Monday, June 24th to view raffle details and donation instructions. If you have not received an email, please check your junk/spam folders. If you are a studio tour artist who needs to be added to the list, please email us at: artscouncilabiquiu@gmai.com TICKETS WILL BE ON SALE AT LOCAL BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER AND THIS YEAR, THEY WILL ALSO BE SOLD ONLINE! A basket will be on display at the Abiquiu Inn and depending on donation turn-out, we hope to have multiple baskets! More details to come on ticket sales after August 1. RAFFLE DRAWING IS THURSDAY, OCT 3 AT THE ABIQUIU INN - (TIME TBD) The drawing will be held during our annual Abiquiú Studio Tour Artist Exhibition Showcase Opening Reception on Thursday, October 3, which the Abiquiu Inn has graciously agreed to host. More details about the reception and drawing will be provided as we get closer to the date. We would love to see you there! Winners will be contacted right away and baskets can be shipped, if winners are not local. WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED GENEROUS SPIRITS AND SUPPORT! With Gratitude, The Abiquiú Arts Council Board of Directors
The Locals’ Picks Book List
Zach Hively Casa Urraca Press has created a place for locals in our area to recommend books to each other, and a place to find book suggestions with a personal touch.
"The Eyre Affair is a crime story that takes place in relatively recent times, only the times aren’t quite what they are in reality. It’s a fantasy Sci-Fi background, but if you like words, and there are lots of them in this book, then you may enjoy it. This is a crime novel about characters from books being kidnapped, and all those books in existence are subsequently altered. The ‘bad guy’ holds captive kidnapped characters, and novels, for large sums of money. There are lots of twists & turns, of course, and it definitely does not take itself seriously. This book is funny, silly, insightful, sweet, and serious. Yes, all those things. If you can accept the genre, then you will love finding out how it all turns out in the end. The protagonist, Thursday Next, has 8 books in this series. This is the first one."
Have a book to recommend? Send it to Zach at casaurracaltd@gmail.com – title, author, and the reason you suggest it.
The full Locals’ Picks list is available to view here on Bookshop. A purchase from Casa Urraca's link helps support independent bookstores. Abiquiu’s Casa Urraca Press earns a commission from every shopping trip that starts with the above Bookshop link—you can shop the entire Bookshop site in addition to the locals' picks. Plus, a percentage of every book (at least 10%) goes straight to independent bookstores. This is an opportunity to support small businesses with the same convenience as large online retailers. From the Abiquiu LibraryPALCC Board Meeting
Wednesday, July 31 at 6PM at Library Abiquiu Book Club
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The Abiquiú Arts Council 501(c)(3) invites you to attend the 1st annual Abiquiú Gathering of Artisans mercado event, held July 27 & 28 at the Rio Arriba Rural Event Center from 10am-5pm! Over 20 juried artists from Rio Arriba County will be exhibiting their work. Visit Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Mobile Creativity Studio truck Art to G.O. on Sunday 7/28, starting at 10 am! The Abiquiú Gathering of Artisans is a fiscal program of the Abiquiú Arts Council and partially funded by Rio Arriba Lodger’s Tax.
Food Vendors: Sat 7/27 Lazy Buffalo, Sun 7/28 (TBD)
Can’t make it to this event? Join us on October 12 & 13 for the 30th annual Abiquiú Studio Tour! Visit abiquiustudiotour.org for more details or contact artscouncilabiquiu@gmail.com
Únashay is a grief sanctuary, 501(c)3 in the desert that offers reachable community care through the arts, companionship, land-based and mobile offerings; all whilst forging a new emergent culture for grief. Visit unashayhome.com to learn more.
A note from Zevk Ensemble: Zevk Ensemble is grateful for the opportunity to support the presence of Únashay Grief Sanctuary. With our music and poetry, it is our intention to gather and uplift hearts together in acknowledgement and love of the Divine Presence. We accept the Decree that gives and takes life. We attempt to face that door leading to the next world with tranquility and steadfast hearts. And we have faith that the next world is one of Mercy and Peace. And on Kal Cahoone and Aimee Wilson: Kal Cahoone (from Denver, CO): "Cahoone’s music is airy and ghostlike. In composition her songs are unpretentious but always in possession of some frightening complication that bubbles just beneath the surface. You can feel this complication. Nearly see it. In content, Cahoone seems almost obsessed with the ultimate human emotions and virtues – obsessed because she is uncomfortably learned in their power and charm; and deceit. To understand how everything around love and loss and pain has corners; and how they are all blindingly sharp going down – one doesn’t need much more than to listen to her songs. Lyrically, most of her cathedral work is conversational and so bleedingly honest and universal that one can’t help from cringing in understanding while listening." Aimee Wilson (Abiquiu, NM): "To the spirits, Aimee Wilson is a psychopomp armed with a voice that carves ravines and a guitar strung with strings that reverberate an uncloaked silence. Aimee sings to the angels when they play as if tapping into the origins of human sorrow." Saturday, August 3, 2P - 4P
Pueblo de Abiquiú Library & Cultural Center Len Nils Beké has a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics. He has studied vernacular Nuevomexicano place names, analyzed the ways they have been erased and altered on government maps, and explored the social meanings that arise from the contested use of place names in New Mexico and in southern Colorado. Is it La Plaza Blanca or The White Place?
Polvadera Peak or La Polvadera? Where is La Loma de Mana Dela? This presentation will report on an ongoing research project focused on documenting and mapping out the place naming traditions of Spanish-English bilingual Manito communities living in northern Nuevo México and southern Colorado, primarily along the Sierra de la Sangre de Cristo. Manito toponymies are variously erased, obscured and delegitimized in the topographic cartography developed by the United States Geological Survey. Since 2015, data collection has involved over 3500 miles of cycling and over 500 miles of hiking to learn the landscape and travel to various field sites, and interviews with over 70 community knowledge bearers from La Cuesta (Villanueva), NM north to El Alto del Cañón (Gardner), CO. Inside a study area covered by 66 1:24,000 topographic sheets, this study was able to document vernacular antecedents for 49.5% of the official names for natural features, and map out a further 280 previously unmapped names, representing a 25.5% growth in the available record. I systematically compare this collection of names in oral tradition to the state sanctioned inventory of place names to determine by what (linguistic) strategies the USGS achieved the toponymic silencing of Nuevomexicanos in the official cartographic record. While a majority of the official toponymy is based on names in Manito oral tradition, only 15.4% of the labels for natural features represent unaltered versions of the names in that tradition. I show how the topographic maps produced by the USGS present a conceptually impoverished understanding of the landscape, and project significant is conceptions of Manito geographic knowledge and ways of speaking. Santa Rosa Fiesta
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Dan’s the man! Pyr lovers, we have one heckin’ good doggo for you! This lovely, lanky boy is easy to walk, enjoys other dogs, has double dew claws & and a gentle giant Pyr head, and whatever he's mixed with? Well, it’s a super nice combo because this dude is a charmer! Dan’s adoption fee is waived this week thanks to our Empty the Shelters event with Bissell Pet Foundation, and he goes home neutered, vaccinated, microchipped and with six months of FREE heartworm prevention! Open Monday-Saturday 11am-4:30pm www.espanolahumane.org 505-753-8662 Lyla
Lyla is a love! This petite and purrfect purrbaby is all elegance with an exquisite profile, warm amber eyes, and a slinky, smooth way about her. She can’t wait to have some attention - it’s hard to be an adult cat available for adoption during kitten season! Lyla’s adoption fee is waived this week thanks to our Empty the Shelters event with Bissell Pet Foundation, and she goes home spayed, vaccinated, and microchipped! Monday-Saturday 11am-4:30pm. www.espanolahumane.org 505-753-8662 Lost and Found PetsOver the past week we have been selected as a hang-out for a group of fine looking dogs. Our house is up at the end of CR158 and I can't figure out where these guys came from. They appear to be well cared for and are very friendly. The go traveling often but keep coming back to mooch on the cat food I have been putting out for the neighborhood ravens. Are these your dogs or would you like to adopt one? Otherwise I'll need to take them to the shelter.
This sweet 7 yr young female lab mix can no longer be cared for by Abiquiu Lake non-resident owner. She is spayed, up to date on all shots, and very playful. Friendly with other dogs. Eager to please a new owner and family.
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