On a Saturday morning in late July, a skinny teenager who still examined his face closely each morning, praying for any sign of hair growth, left the Bright Angel Lodge at the Grand Canyon’s South Rim in his VW Squareback.…
The much anticipated Millennium came and went; Y2K didn’t happen; the world would not start to fall apart in earnest for another 20 months, and I saw The Zephyr, as an economically viable business, peak… and then start a slow…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles BOOK CLIFFS HIGHWAY UPDATE & SOME THOUGHTS ON “PRODUCTION v CONSUMPTION SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles HILLARY CLINTON in the MASTER’S HOUSE The Zephyr Chronicles…pt 3 The “Fork in the Wilderness Road’ & ‘Time to…
Four months ago, the Grand County Council presented a proposal to build an “energy transportation corridor” via Sego Canyon, through the Book Cliffs, to possible oil development sites in the northern tip of Grand County. The plan included the creation…
It’s late July and the Rufous Hummers are back. Feisty little devils, they are. Ready to pick a fight, just to have something to do. I sit on my porch swing in the early evening and watch the aerobatics, the…
EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS FROM BEYOND? For decades, I was convinced I’d found an alien landing site. More 20 years ago, I wrote this: ‘Alien visitations? The proof is here, on an isolated ridge in the northern part of Grand County.…
Note: This article first appeared in the June/July 2010 Zephyr. It’s almost looking like Spring at Pack Creek Ranch. The lawns are greening up. The horses are looking like they’re feeling their oats after a long hard winter. Splashes of…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles “In Defense of Ravens (and Crows)” “I Still Miss Gene Schafer” SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Audyn Stiles ‘Does My Soul Look Good in These Jeans?” from the May 1995 Zephyr Archives ‘ABOUT PRICKLY PEAR & POVERTY’…
Recently, the Utah Wildlife Board proposed a hunting season for crows. While they are not particularly tasty and are known for their intelligence, crows have often been blamed by farmers for agricultural losses via crop damage—crows have to eat, after…
I’d been away from Monticello for a couple months, but one evening last week, after a long, hard drive, I pulled into the old elm-shaded driveway and started to unload my bags. Just then, the siren went off. For Monticello-ites,…