Camp Recovery

Thought I’d hit you all with a picture of when I feel and hurt the old arm – that’s Kat and her brother Wes acting the fool in the background.















Another picture of the Sub-alpine meadows from out trip from Ouray to Durango. I love these meadows. We camped for 5 days just south of here.

















The Camp Recovery Center















Here is Neil holding up the tops and the root of Osha (Ligusticum porterii) – a major medicine of the region and world wide. Bears love this root; it is their medicine as well and hence has many spiritual properties for many of the native tribes. The aromatics are excreted through the lungs and are a classic remedy for cold, dry chest conditions that need moisture and heat brought to them.

















Osha Root














For the last two weeks Neil and I have been homesteading in the San Luis Valley – right near the great sand dunes. Neil has been cowboying around– I hear that he was born to ride and that he makes a great hand. I haven’t been able to do much riding with this arm; I can’t pull the reins hard enough to control these work horses. This place is owned by the Nature Conservancy and is 150,000 acre working ranch with one of the only free ranging bison herds in North America. What that really means is that we’ve been eating some buffalo burgers and elk stake.


We’re heading down South to the Conejos river today to get in some fly-fishing and camping. We’ve become masters of cooking over the open flames; just cause you’re camping don’t mean you got to rough it….




















Poppies in Ouray