We just got back from a road trip to Colorado. We enjoy traveling different routes home. Eastern NM has some nice terrain worth exploring. Since I enjoy murals we were overwhelmed my how much time and effort went into this huge project. Our four year old dalmatian, Chip made the trip with us. The mural showing a fire fighter and a dalmatian is a nice touch. Thanks, Sharon

Danny and Wendy article.My sister Helen Letham told me a story about helping Con with his surfboard shop
Also riding with him to pick up blanks.Were you friends with Helen back then?

hi Tim,
I, too, am glad you still blog once in a while. I have family in N. NM in and around Taos, and I'm an anthropologist (out of Wyoming and Kansas) so Folsom, the prehistoric site, has been in the background a long time.
Turns out Historic Folsom Village that flood, and that stockyard (!) are also of interest. I work in a Biz School these days but i get to putter around with research on meat production (big environmental question) as a marketing professor. Did a PhD on a meatpacking plant in Kansas. So I'm on the trail of more information about what was said to have been the biggest Stockyard West (or North depending on who you read) of Abeline. Anyhow, I drive through from time to time and will stop at the Museum. Keep blogging from time to time or at least keep the site up. I aim to retire one of these days pretty soon, but not before i learn a little more about the Village of Folsom. Appreciate your photos, too!

Thanks for the good article and photographs about my dear friend and once-upon-a-time drinking buddy, Ol' Max Evans.

Hey Tim! The rumors of my demise are an exaggeration! I'm still kicking. Living in Ojai, CA. Please email me if you get this message. Would love to catch up! Take care, Kevin

Sidewalk Surfing [ & Modern Art ] is all what I do !
( TOP STYLE !! )

Tim, thanks for your blog about Tom... I thought of you several times the night we did the tribute show. I thought about working up "Across the Borderland" for the show (since Tom love to play it and tell people about you), but I ran out of time. We ended up raising over $700 to donate to the WhyHunger organization (started by Tom and my favorite songwriter of all time... Harry Chapin!) and everyone seemed to enjoy the show very much. There are two videos out on YouTube already from the show... I hope you can check them out.


Love to you and yours,


Bill Nash

Thanks for such a recognizable verbal portrait of our friend Tom. Truly a giant of a human being who "walked softly and carried a big heart" (to misquote a former prez). What an impact he had.

nice tribute, Tim. Sorry I didn't ever meet him!

What a wonderful tribute to an amazing and brilliant man, who was a friend to us all. Thanks, Tim

Dearest Tim, thank you for this. You have older stories of Tom than anyone else has told. And I LOVE that turkey photo! I have posted the link on my FB Page for others to read.

Mr. Cornay I met your grandmother BeBe at a concert in Taos NM. She is so proud of your work as well as you dads.. And now I understand why. I absolutely love your pencil ART.. BeBe has such a beautiful soul, she told me a lot of stories about Folsom.. Rich History.. God Bless you sir..

Hi, Tim,

Once in a while I check up and see what you're doing. It's great that you are true to your art. I remember West Virginia days fondly.

Done Gone!
Love, Suesan

Hi Tim,
I am about 6 or 7 years younger than your dad. Sorry we were too busy making a living to take care of politics and left this mess for you all to clean up. It doesn't matter if your Democrat, GOP or Intendant, we screwed them all up.

I like your work. Great Pix and writing.

I picked up your story "On telling Stories with a Camera" in Ranch & Reata Magazine. Your tales and pix cover a lot of the world grew up and worked in all my life. Then followed it to your blog.

Reading April 15, 2017 "The Texas Panhandle",it seems like a few guy in Lubbock could meet where the pigeons roost late in the afternoon or just before dawn with shotguns and fix that problem. They can't kill them all but the pigeons will sure quit roosting all in the same place.

I am sorry to see Raton dying like the rest of the small Western towns are. I don't expect many folks stop on their way back and forth to Colorado. There too many like my wife in hurry to get where she is going so she can read her book or watch TV. She did see anything all exciting about the drive from Santa Fe to Lubbock through Ft Sumter, Clovis, Mule Shoe and Little Field to look at her farm. When we finished the dive back to Oklahoma though Amarillo I couldn't get her to by The Adobe Walls to drive the almost all Western history in two days.

Her farm is the Yellow House Ranch the South Headquarters for the XIT Ranch. She doesn't get that kind of history it needs a crown or something. I knew people that made it and she dose too.

Please keep making pictures of it and telling its story.

i am proud to say that, that man is my grandpa. i haven't seen him in a long time but i remember when i was little he used to take me to run cattle with him and my dad.

Fun doc on Showtime! The hub (no slouch in the skateboard dept) and I smiled throughout! Bravo!

Hey Guys,
I just watched the Palisades movie last night. It was awesome. I'm a good friend of Patti McGee and was stoked to see her cameo.

We are throwing an event in Phoenix, AZ on March 11-12. There will be an old school skate swap and lots of other fun stuff. It would be rad if you had a booth there or even if you guys just came to enjoy the skate fest. Check it out here. Http://www.phxskatercon.com

Love this lady!

Tim,

whats your number i grew up in the Marquez Knolls from 1965 on, I want to add some things to the record, this stuff is great!
thanks for the work youve done

Rick

I love to travel through you vicariously!
Sand skiing ! How fun

Beautiful picture of the wild horses
Your lucky to have see them

Tim
What a great site, so important to preserve and continue the tradition. At the same time, I was at Paul Revere with the other bunch (Torger Johnson, John Freis, Danny Bearer, David Ellis), and Mark Renneker at Uni High where I went all 3 summers. With the worlds first batch of polyurethane wheels in 1966, and on the C&D Skateboard Team, I competed successfully in Anaheim too, and Venice/Santa Monica. Now I'm living in Washington and am on the DC Wheels skateboard team, we're doing a demo Saturday. More to come!
Tony Altar Pali Hi 1969

MR.CORNAY I HAVE PERSONALLY TALKED TO YOU A COUPLE OF YRS AGO IM FROM CIBOLO,TEX I HAVE A BROTHER THAT LIVES I ABQ ,NEW,MEX I HAD LOST YOU NUMBER BUT GOT ON THE NET AND FOUND YUOR SITE I WILL BE CALLING YOU IN THE FUTURE I REALY LOVE YOU ART.THANKS, SIGNED DAVID,OZUNA.

The Browns, glad to see your still there. Was at the ranch back in the 50s with my Dad to buy some feeder cattle. (Shorthorns) John

This travelogue is a masterful series presented by a master storyteller and photographer %E2%80%94 such a delightful read! I can hardly wait to see what new adventures Tim will find to take us on. What a wonderful way to capture the interesting and exciting history of this area that we all love so much! THANK YOU, Tim Keller... HAPPY TRAILS, MY GOOD FRIEND!

will you be interested in taking my senior pics?

Thanks Tim....We like your comments and all others opinions...keep it up... Guy Solano " Got Beans ? "

Enjoyed your site and music selections, Tim. Pleasure to meet and chat with you last month in Trinidad at the art walk.
Ed Shaw (vimeo.com/edshaw)

Thanks for the great blog -- though I was only 4 in 1965, I always love to read about the Sixties, especially in the Palisades. Bill, Kim and I send our best to you, Terry and Jack. We will always hold your family, and your wonderful mother Joan, in our hearts. Our folks, Jack & Carol, truly counted Joan & Jack as their very best friends from Palmera onward. All my best,
Mike Douglas (the youngest, but now 54!)

So many wonderful memories of Joan, Jack, you and Terry. Staying with Aunt Fran on Oaklawn Road, your Mom and Dad in the Palisades, beach-time, Santa Monica Pier, So much more. Joan is at peace, now.
What a gental soul.
Love and light to you all.

Thanks for the flashback! I grew up in Pacific Palisades on Las Pulgas in the 50's and 60's. A great skateboarding hill, although I left plenty of skin on the Pali High parking lot too. I remember Chris Picciolo as a mop-headed little kid, but I guess it's not bragging if you can do it.....Hope he ended up better than Torger. I still miss my Hobie waffle board that my mom gave away to a friend!

Napa, CA

Hi Tim, I found your website while searching for info on COLLEGE RECORDS in Northridge. I hung out in that store as a kid for years. Was wondering if you were there when Jon and Barry and Ron Burla? And do you have any pictures of the store.

Thanks,

Chris

Nice work, blog, btw.

Beautiful lyrics, great music, and a good man behind it. Love Love Love it!

Well the FIRST NATIONAL SKATEBOARD CHAMPIONSHIP was held DECEMBER 1963 IN SANTA MONICA. This was at the MID-WINTER SURFING SURF-FAIR...

Larry Steveson of MAKAHA put the whole contest together in order to FIND someone to represent MAKAHA. The FIRST TWO riders were MYSELF and JOHN FRIES. WE were given the task to locate other riders to start the Makaha Exhibition Team. Check your old SURF-GUIDES or Sports Illustrated or LIFE magazine. Torger, Trafton, Woody, Scott Archer, KERRY SPENCER were the first ones. Yes, Danny and Bruce came along later with Gregg carrol. "Palisades" got the PRESS because the photographers and editors all lived around that area and promoted their hometown kids.
Check TV NEWS SHOWS, Tom Brokow and RALPH STORY'S LOS ANGELES etc. Sorry for pointing out what is the true chronological facts - but some of Your Stars were no where around in the 60's first start of notoriaty. Bruce Logan was the best - but certainly I never saw Brian at any shows we put on for MAKAHA. Danny too was also the best, for sure... but got somewhat fuzzy with accomplishments towards the end. Almost expected him to be the FIRST on the MOON according to some ways he told it...

Could'nt help myself pointing this out - starting to really bug me seeing "Johnny Come Lately" et all altering history to insert their selves with non-true timeline..

ALL HAIL MAKAHA & RIP LARRY STEVENSON - THANKS & ALOHA,

SQUEAK BLANCK

Hey Dash!

I'm here! Two flights of steps below. Will be thrilled to get back upstairs. In the meantime, come down and see me sometime!
;-)

Hey Tim, just for future reference the painting JD Chatfield is standing next to, on the painting the town project in mosquero, was painted by me. Along with another ten or so paintings on those walls that I personally painted.

Glad to grow up in Palisades during that skateboarding era. Our family had just moved backk to California from Washington State in 1963 when I was 10 years old. Our first next door neighbors at the Ford's (family friends) house in Marquez had some surfers a couple years older and I knew that's what I wanted to do. Started surfing at Sate beach around 65. Burgess pool company Skateboards were so cool when they came out. Good luck!

I recently purchased 3 signed un-numbered old prints.One is entitled" late for supper",another"just a little country show" and the third"oh for the things of an Angel" Could you tell me when these were produced?

I remember you, Paul. Good to hear from you. The premiere is already full but DVDs should be available soon. Maybe Don will book another showing, too. I'll keep the "Skateboarding's First Wave" page updated with news. Thanks.

Grew up in yhe Palisades during that great time,and knew every one of the skaters, would love to see the film how can i get tickets for the december premiere

I grew up in the Palisades (Riviera section) in the '50's and '60's. I remember seeing a skateboard movie at the old Bay Theater called Skater Dater. Think it must have been in the late'50's or so. Does anyone remember that movie?

I loved this article and can't wait till the movie comes out! I also grew up in the Palisades in the 50' and 60's and live down in North County San Diego for the last 35 years. I grew up going to Sand and Sea club my whole childhood and have so many great memories of surfing and also skaeboarding with my rollerskake wheels on a piece of wood. My Dad was from Hawaii originally and we spend many summers over there and at Outrigger Canoe Club. Great trip down memory lane. Thank you so so much!!!

As far as history goes, I "founded" the Imperial Skateboard club though Gregg was certainly there and intimately a part of the genesis along with Michael Mel. Anyway, its nice that Brian Logan adjusted the historical process here--who knows who started skateboarding. I do know that Skaterdater was directed by Noel Back and produced by Marshal Backlar which was the first commercial skateboard movie made and went on to win the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an academy award. Many more stories but that's enough for now...

Tim, I lost 3 parent in 3 years- too much grief- too much booze. Please forgive me for my last letter- wasted! Too embarrassed At the end of the day, I will always love you.
Thanks for the memories :)

Your first English class in college was sooo
easy for you and then there was journalism. Ten minutes you were done. Writing was always inside of you. Glad you finally made peace with being an "artist"! The world is better off for your contributions. Ramblin boy you did it!

Sometime around 1964, give or take a few years, I was doing hand stands on my skateboard in the upper parking lot at Palisades High, after doing it for hours my arms weakened and gave out, I ended up scraping my face along the asphalt for about 10 feet until I finally flipped over, I was stuck with my chest on the board.
Someone was there with an 8 mm camera and filmed the entire thing, if anyone has that film I would love to see it.
I ended up with a big scab under my right eye about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide. Talk about Pain!
I would love to hear from you.
thanks,
Jim

Just connected with these articles which are so much fun to read. A blast from the past. Someone posted them on Facebook, so glad I found them. I actually still have the patch from my old jacket for la Femme skateboard team, another offshoot team for the girls, Colleen, Donna, Wendy and myself. Fun times,thanks for bringing them back.

Hi Tim, This is Ruth Brown's sister Chris in Chimayo, I just talked with her Sunday & she shared all the wonderful events that have been happening at the coffee shop and how perfectly everything worked out for Miriam. What a good artist for one so young! Glad you are part of promoting Raton and the area, what a New Mexico diamond in the rough it is. Perhaps we'll meet sometime, I need to get over there for a visit SOON! Also enjoy your pieces in NM Mag. Sounds like an exciting, inspiring St. Paddy's Weekend!

Hi Tim, This is Ruth Brown's sister Chris in Chimayo, I just talked with her Sunday & she shared all the wonderful events that have been happening at the coffee shop and how perfectly everything worked out for Miriam. What a good artist for one so young! Glad you are part of promoting Raton and the area, what a New Mexico diamond in the rough it is. Perhaps we'll meet sometime, I need to get over there for a visit SOON! Also enjoy your pieces in NM Mag. Sounds like an exciting, inspiring St. Paddy's Weekend!

Great article Grew up in palisades. .knew most of guys from surfing..sad news though Danny Bearer passed away few days ago RIP

Tim,

Thanks for the great article. We were Boy Scouts together in troop 400. With Scott Johnson, Dave and Tom Sears and others. We also went to Paul Revere at the same time. I found this article on Facebook where I have found many old friends.
Stuart Smith

Although I enjoy reading your take on all the Palisades stories and how your part of the L.A. area was formed, I was one of the kids from other areas of L.A. beach city areas and we started at or about or maybe even sooner then people from the Palisades area but I am not going to dispute that but no one knows for sure in what area or city or who was the first skateboarder. There are even pictures of kids in books that had some kind of skateboard contraption back as far the the 1920's. I do know that the modern era of skateboarding started between Palos Verdes and Santa Monica/Palisades area in the very late 50's very early 1960's. Oh and to the guy that talked about Skatedater, that was Gregg Carroll and his Imperial Skateboard Team out of Torrance that made that movie and Colleen Boyd was not in it and the Imperial Team got to make that movie because their team was the overall winning team in the 1964 Santa Monica Championships and to the guy that said Tom Sims started the urethane wheel, NO WAY that was a guy by the name of Frank Nasworthy out of Encinitas Ca.Cadillac Wheels so much wrong information out there, but I do like your Palisades stories, all these stories and our own from the South Bay area of the late 50's and 60's are very important for history! LoganEarthSki.com for more skate history

Nice to see this article and know that someone is documenting a very special place and time. The Palisades Story is one of kind. I was very close friends with Wendy Bearer and Melissa Berg. Torger and Danny B. were both like brothers to me. Thanks!

Hi great article. I look forward to reading more about this history. I grew up in skating during the transition from clay to urethane wheels, and used to work at the Con surf shop on Pico. I knew Colleen Boyd. I actually still have the fiberglass Hobie skateboard she gave me in the 70's. There was a movie called "Skater dater" (I think) from that era. I believe she was in it. Were any of the other people you mentioned in it?

12-31-13
Today I saw little old lady @ Sam's fuel station and i saw front plate "Hindiville".
I said Hindiville? She just smiled with the biggest GRIN! She got in her white car, we waved at each other goodby. I looked up Hindiville and here I'am. She had this secret!
And what I just read makes me Proud to be New Mexican!!! You are true New Mexican's
ADRGB.

Peter,

It was great to find your article, I also have been pissed that Dogtown was not where it started. Im 56 so a little behind you guys.The first guy I saw skate Marquez Elementary was Paul Minkhoff on a 2+2, I think that board preceded Makaha and DB boards?
another Pali evolution is I was the one who invented Roadskiing . When Sims made the first polyurethane wheels I mounted skate boots on 65MM Skis. The US Olympic was willing to trade an endorsement for 100 pairs . I could not afford it.They eventually evolved into regular ski boots with ski bindings.
I texted Don Mike , ( no response) I would like to contribute what I can it has been a lifelong passion and I currently longboard with my adult Son!

Scott Archer

Barry Blenkhorn aka Barry Williams?

What a great article. Thanks for mentioning me. I learned how to kick turn from Paul Resnack and Jamie Budge. Paul was dating my sister and Jamie was his best friend. They were from Santa Monica and they were doing it on metal skates and home made boards a few years before anyone. Both great surfers.

Your photos are simply amazing! They make me so homesick...yet they give me the opportunity to show everyone just how beautiful NE New Mexico is... Many of my family are still living in the area, involved in rodeo, mining, politics, etc. Hoping to come to Raton/Springer next spring to finally show my kids where I grew up and why it will always be "God's Country" to me!

I grew up in Raton NM listening to the Fireballs. A couple years ago my son's boss opened an old safe. Inside were a lot of old cassette tapes of famous Country Western singers.While looking through them I found 2 of the Fireballs cassette tapes from the Clovis studio. They were going to be thrown away so I grabbed them and have them in a cedar chest.

Hello Tim.
I think you might remember me as Proffessor Paul Hunter's son, Martin. I recently came across your album "Little Miracles" and was overjoyed. "Lefty" has been a song that I can still remember by heart from being 10 yrs old. I am now a musician myself, and would love to pick your brain. It's been a long time since you stepped in that cactus in Santa Fe, but i will never forget that you didn't miss a beat as you were playing. I must say that you made quite an impression on me as a musician in my youth. I am going to try to get in tough with you through my dad, but i have much to ask, and even more to play. or if youd like, please call me at my "email".

i love don's poem its funny but true i live out on a ranch in texas 40 miles out of lubbock and my land is soo dry i have 5 wells allover my land its complicated to ride my horses without them beening spooked by those wells its embarrasing! :)

I simply love your works. You are truly blessed by all that is wonderful around you. Im am so looking forward to be able to enjoy the pleasures in your State. Thanks.

This place seems like a dream I would love to come have a tour and learn all I can!

THat was A Joke BTW!

Hey i was researcheing on this buried treasure thing and i think its under your house!

Tim,
Thanks so much for your kind article on "The Hunts." The group forwarded it to my office (I manage The Hunts with their record producer Mark Carman at MCM World Media) They also forwarded this to East Coast Touring (The Hunts Booking agency) and the team there was also delighted to read the piece you wrote. I agree, let's not wait another five years to hear The Hunts play in the great state of New Mexico...(Justin will be an old man of 19!)

Hi, Tim: Haven't seen you for over 20 years. Living above Monterey Bay now, writing and recording songs and writing screenplays. So, you're 38 miles outside of Raton, with your bride Christina! I thoroughly explored your website, enjoying it immensely. Have a great 2013!

Hi Tim! The Fireballs want to thank you for starting our 2013 New Year off with a New Mexico Magazine 'bang' ! A very nice piece of work and thankful you chose us for the article. Norman Petty, would be happy & proud too. Happy New Year !

I kicked started my education career Aug 1972 and marriage Jan 1973 in Des Moines New Mexico. Great families, super kids. It was a perfect fit for lynne and i.

Love the read, and the names brought back fond memories of the area.

Just read your article about the Fireballs, excellent story timeline and the photos were the cherry on the Sundae. Your art of photography and writing blesses the readers of this magazine.

Sorry about the type error, ha it was homemade bread that her Mom would make for us. My prayer are with her family.

Ms. Jackson was a wonderful teacher and life long friend. She was my favorite teacher, I remember like yesterday the trips she and I went on to Colorado horse ranch spend the night and come back the next day. Her Mom would make us sandwiches with homemade bread. Many great memories. I will miss her and will remember her always.

Tim:
So sorry to hear about Ms. Jackson. She was THE reason I became an English teacher. She taught so much more that English. Those Life Lessons will stay with everyone who was in her classrom for many years to come. She will live on because of her influence and effect on so many of her students.

Ms Jackson was by far one of my favorite high school teachers. She was fair, stern, caring, effective and her love of horses apparent. God Bless you Ms Jackson. You made a positive mark on so many of us.

Ms Jackson was by far one of my favorite high school teachers. She was fair, stern, caring, effective and her love of horses apparent. God Bless you Ms Jackson. You made a positive mark on so many of us.

Tim - Thanks for the great article on Linda Jackson. Like hundreds of kids, I saw the teacher and never realized that she could have an interesting life outside of school! She helped me appreciate and use my writing skills. Wish I would have known her better!

I'm sad that you've passed on, Ms Jackson. In high school, you were my English teacher.

While in College... your words, your style and your lessons got me through those required English classes so you technically were still my English teacher.

When I started my career with AT&T, you were lessons were reminders of effective words, polished phrases and proper communications skills. You took me far, my special English teacher.

After I retired from AT&T after twenty eight years... I look back and am so very happy that you were as diligent an English teacher as she was a lover of horses.

I HAVEN'T SEEN OR TALKED TO YOU SINCE HIGH SCHOOL but for many years, your lessons have never left me.

Hi there Tim Mrs Linda Jackson was my english teacher and was an amazing lady. She was the best english teacher i had and a great lady that taught me alot about horses. She will greatly missed and never forgotten

Hi Sweetie.... Oh, yes you can zoom!!!

Hey Tim, Just picked up a New Mexico Magazine. A great article on Raton, and your photography was wonderful as always. Thanks very much for the mention!

Really enjoyed the sights and 'sounds' on your website. I hope u enjoy the expressing of these things as much as we enjoy viewing and listening (with the mind's ear).Great!

Nice work, Tim. I enjoy your blogs, your articles, and photography, and for continuing to shed light on the arts in Northeastern New Mexico in your most talentd way. Keep up the good work!

Yatahay Tim, sounds like it was a great ride! I rode my horse and packed my other horse from Texas/Mexico border to Montana/Canadian border using only pre 1840 gear all primitive in 2010 with no back up support! 2200 miles mostly in the back country, I want to write a book on it.

Hi Tim i'm an old friend of Don and Brittany Rouse, i used to work with them at the stockyards ,i've lost touch with them and would like to get a hold of them , i found this article on them and was thrilled to see they were doin so well , can you help me , i need a phone # or an email address, Thank You Nancy

Hi Carrie,
A Google search for "'Texas Summer Nights' album" brings up Mickie, Tracie, Denice, the Ash Family, and more, though I'm not optimistic you'll ever find an LP available. Your best hope is to find someone who has coverted the tracks to digital as I eventually did with my early recordings. TSN is truly a one-of-a-kind classic: good luck!
Tim

Hello Tim,
Congratulations on your continued success!

My parents lost their home in the San Marcos Flood of 1998. Also lost was the Summer Nights Album I loved and listned to when I visited there.How might I find this music so loved again? Is it on line anywhere? My Brother and Sister went to college there and also loved that album..and I would love to surprise them with a copy!

It is was awesome Album!...and I would really appreciate your help!

Thanks, Carrie

WOW! Now that is what I call an Endurance trail Ride! I would love to do something like this! How does one get involved?

Did Will Banister mention that he does impersonations?? Check out his youtube videos! What an entertainer! Thanks for the awesome coverage!

What a wonderful act, Will Banister & the Mulberry Band.... Nara Visa has great taste in music and an amazing Community Center.

Looking forward to hearing more of Will and his band; watching this act rise.

I would love to see that video of Will doing Your Cheatin' Heart in diapers!

Thanks for a great adventure/date!!!

Wow! What a nice article on your website! The pictures are great! I really appreciate your efforts. We have never had an article written about the school before. I am looking forward to reading the paper tonight!

What a nice article about Maggie! Thanks a bunch for writing a story about her future endeavors. She was quite complemented by the fact that her favorite English teacher wanted to write an article about her! The picture is really nice, too! We appreciate this a lot! Let me know what day it will be published. Kathy

A permanent display at the Holiday Inn Express...

Brilliant!

I wonder if the largest hunting & fishing park in the world would like to have a Keller gracing their lodge.

Tim,
Just had the opportunity to view your site. Wonderful, inspiring.
Your story on "A First Trip to a Museum", was insiteful and reflective. The Raton Museum has strived to bring awareness to our youth about our history. The Journey Stories Exhibit and people such as yourself have helped further that goal THANK YOU

Thanks my friend -Pedro

Thanks for your wonderful coverage of M5. I always enjoy seeing what you do with your pics and your lit.

This is a wonderful story and I am sure they have lots of campfire tales to tell. Making memories that will last a lifetime. Something not many get to do but wish they could so we live through these stories.

P.S. Sorry for "SHOUTING" previously. Didn't know the caps lock was on!

TIM: THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR MARVELOUS STORY AND PHOTOS. I ALWAYS ENJOY YOUR "EYE." KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.

Tim,

I really enjoyed your story.
You probably don't remember me, but you were my home room teacher at S.M.H.S.
I graduated in 82'.
You were one of my favorite teachers, laid back, but firm.
I hope this email finds you well, and happy. Joel Moore.

P.S. San Marcos is still hot, and humid.

Linda, Tim Keller gave me your name to see if you or someone had a place for trail riders with there own horses to camp for a week or 2 in the Raton area. I probably won't be able to get there till next year but I thought I'd work on it so I can get out of this heat next summer.

Hi Love,

Thanks for this sweet tribute for all to see and share in the happiness we've found together.

May the years ahead bring many blessings and even more discovery~ Love, Christina

Thank you for the photos and the wonderful review. I don't know when I have enjoyed a performance more.

Great article and pics! Thank you!

What a wonderful predawn hour I just spent with your work here, Tim. Faves: neighbors house at blind gap, with the tree, seated circus elephant (that may be she, not the photo!), last in the Max Brand series (those eyes!), Christina happy, Darien's boys in the truck bed. Well, many others. All are extraordinary in a way I mean to discover and describe. The people are real, now that's because you SEE them, though how you catch that is the genius. All my love, always, you and christine. 'then he walked away from me...'

We are so lucky to have you covering news in Raton! And your pictures - best in the state!! Thank you thank you for your hard work and your art. And for teaching me a new word - "inveigle". :)

Enjoyed the Mask & Wig news. Always interested in what is happening at the Shuler.

Congratulations to those responsible, am truly impressed with your website etc. Sorry I haven't looked in long before. Now anxioux to get the "Hi Lo Country" as I left there after WW 11.

TRYING TO LOCATE SUSAN STONE WOULD LIKE TO USE SOME OF HER PHOTOS TO DRAW FROM AS REFERENCE MATERIAL. CAN YOU HELP ME LOCATE HER. THANK YOU SO MUCH

Tim (and Christina),
I just finished "Ameripass" and found it very interesting. Another way of getting to know our neighbors.
I enjoy your writing and pictures, you are an artist!
We all have history. It's just that not everyone's history is as interesting, nor can we write it the way you did! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for the article on Mary Lou Kern. I have the pleasure of working with her as the Admin. Assistant for the Colfax Soil and Water. Your article was very interesting and I sure enjoyed it.

Photo tour looks great over at New Mexico Magazine!

I heard that the Okie wagon train has picked up stakes and relocated from Clayton to the rest area east of Des Moines. Might be a story AND a portrait out of that one!

I loved reading it, Aunt Lynn :) I've read it...Hmm, I think 3 times now?

My choice of the two hat pictures is the one with the hat on the tombstone. It shows finality to a man's life. It is interesting how sacred a man's hat can become.

When I saw your first shot, I didn't like the saddle either. It confused the issue -- without added commentary the viewer would likely have assumed that the saddle shared the owner of the hat.

The second shot is much better.

The photo choice is interesting, I prefer the other two over the one that WH published, my fav is #2. I've moved to Ajo Arizona to The Curley School Artisan apartments. Very busy with my photography and still wanting to stop in Des Moines for a visit someday. Susan

Congratulations to the Whited Foundation! Nice Article, Tim!
And congratulations to you on photos in New Mexico mag.

I'm glad you put the "second-string" photos on the blog. That's the way it's supposed to work, anyways!

Some of your readers might find their own gems amongst the tailings.

Loved the Ride to Pride article. Congratulations on your expanding writing career!

I would love to hear that ranting, I can just imagine! I was thinking What?! when I read that. Cowgirls are a breed apart though!

Hehehe yes DHS rocks!

I just finished "The Hi-Lo Country". It was very strange to read a book based on the area in which I now live. In the forward of my copy, the author stressed that his goal was to accurately record the experience of living near Des Moines in the era after World War II.

How strange that the land in which I now live seems to bear so little resemblance to that described in the book. The geography matches, but the wind, although still a force today, seems to play an outsized role in the book. Was it so much worse then? Did working in it exacerbate its imprint on the psyche? When Max Evans left for Santa Fe, it seems the wind chased him in his dreams.

One thing is for certain, we have less drinking, fighting, and woman chasing. Perhaps our easier lives require less extravagant diversions. Satellite television and a bottle from the fridge seemingly provide the necessary respite in the modern day.

I would really like to see you write a feature comparing the book with modern day Des Moines. By the way, I never found the answer to the source of the name "Hi-Lo". In the forward, the author does give a clue; he describes the area as a land of extremes. Extreme in its perception as well as its reality.

Hey Tim! We worked together at Playback International (video warehouse) in Richardson, TX. Glad to see you're still around. Happy New Year and best wishes for you and yours. Estella and I are still together. Two beautiful girls and a good church life are my main purposes these days. Thank you for all the great music, sir.

Just stopping by to wish you and Christina a very happy holiday season spent with joy, hope, and humor; and of course those you love. I follow both your and Chritina's blogs faithfully and look forward to the day we can sit down together over a cup of coffee. Blessings....Susan

Thanks, TJ, for commenting and conversing about the content of one of my blog entries. I'd love to see more of that type of interaction here. It's nice to know that you're there and reading. I appreciate it. Tim

Tim, I've enjoyed reading your articles both in Western Horseman and on your blog. As a newspaper copy editor with a "country" background, I frequently grimace at the way some of my fellow copy editors change things in stories about which they have no working knowledge. Your comments about the changes to both the mesa and the river made me chortle because I know someone who would have made exactly those changes. Keep up the fantastic work bringing these stories to readers of both your blog and WH!

The humor is great! I love it when you make me laugh.... but hey, you posted right on top of that fabulous photo... what's up with that?

Hmmm...

Your gallery is awesome and inspiring. I loved the poem "Grasp" and relate to it. I will come back and view it often as the photography makes me VERY nostalgic. Christina is beautiful, but then I expected that... Viya con dias

Yes, I know the "tingle" well, it happens when I'm looking through the viewfinder and I just know the image is going to "work" and I get the same magical feeling when a print rolls out of the ol' Epson and it looks even better than I visualized. I wish I was in High School again and you were my teacher, I hope your students are as inspired by your dedication as I am. I am enjoying being a College student at my ripe old age and appreciate the opportunity. Adios amigo.

Tim, I've spent two hours looking through this amazing website, reading your bio, and lamenting that you sang tonight and I was not there. RHS kids are so fortunate to still have you--I can only imagine how busy you stay to produce such a variety of art and, most importantly, influence so many young minds. Always a fan! Pat

R. -

All my images are available for purchase, including "Long Gaze West". Adding photos to the web galleries is time-consuming: I do it in batches, every few months. Meantime, use the Purchase page on the Photography side to get details and a price estimate, then e-mail me (via the Contact button). I'll send exact costs and we'll have a done deal.

By the way, providing "a desktop computer background" is not actually my purpose here.

Always, thanks for visiting.

Tim

Mr. Keller,

The picture "Long gaze west" should be among the prints available for purchase. The picture is quite nice and should do more than make a desktop computer background.

I just read The Long Riders: Crossing America from Mexico to Canada on
Horseback. Enjoyed it very much. I look forward to reading it in publication.

Hi Tim,

This is a great article. My husband, Wayne Pedigo and our daughter Briana are riding on this great adventure. Wayne has ridden every mile of the trip and Briana joined him in June in LaJunta, CO. They are having an amazing experience and thank you for making me feel that I was there by reading your great article. Also I was looking at your photos on the web and they are breathtaking. You are very talented.

Julie

Neat! A new car from the efforts of your camera and writing. Also liked the Virtual Art Tour. It was certainly a beautiful exhibit.

Love,
Dad

Amazing writing, Tim. I felt as if I was on the cattle drive with you. Mark and I are so anxious to get there next weekend, and explore this wonderful part of the country with you and Christina!

See you soon!

Dot in Connecticut

Hi Love,

I am looking forward to hearing tell of your trail ride and seeing the images you bring back.

Good Road,

Christina

Frankly, Mr. Keller, I initially snickered at the thought of you singing. But, through and through, you have proved to me you are not only a great writer, a great photographer, and ultimately a great teacher, but also a great musician and an overall great person. I truly felt the need to compliment you, albeit anonymously.

Tim,

Thanks so much for the newspapers. Your article was fantastic. I love your site. Great pictures.

Sheila

Tim,

My sincere congratulations to you on the success of your ventures! I've missed you on PN, but what you are doing here is wonderful!

All the best !

Dick

Tim,
Very interesting, love the pictures, music etc....
Great work!!

Ha! Tim saw your Dad and Terry a few weeks ago they told me about your site,looks get. Congratulations, I catch up later.

Congratulations, Tim! I'm so glad that things are going so well for you. I know it has taken a lot of work and I can only wish you the very best!

Hi Tim,

I am so amazed at how your writing and photography has taken off! Congratulations on the NM Arts purchase. Wow!

Started thinking about you after listening again to Kirk sing Come & Go on his Rising on the Wind CD. I saw you a couple times around Dallas in the early 1990's. Had to have the Uncle Calvin's cassette-I volunteered there from 1994-2006. Love the website.

Tim

This is so well done and it looks just terrific......You should be very proud or yourself. WTG my friend.

Wow. Tim...all I can say is wow! I can't wait for a few minutes of spare time so I can return and explore some more. This is so wonderful...