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October 2022: In this Issue

Guest Editors Letter

Mid-summer in northern New Mexico can be challenging, packed as it is with visitors escaping sweltering temperatures at home, but those in the know, locals

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October 2022

Senior Menu (Printable) This Senior Lunch menu applies to all Senior Centers in Taos County. Meals are cooked fresh at each location. Lunch costs $1.50

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Sports Roundup: October

FOOTBALL: VOLLEYBALL: The Ladycats JV team put on a dynamite performance Sept. 6 against the Cimarron Lady Rams. The Ladycats took the first set handily

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QCC UPDATE: October 2022

QCC Hires First Executive Director On the heels of Questa’s best studio art tour ever this past August, the Questa Creative Council is becoming better

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Agua es Vida Para Aves

This year’s monsoons were a welcome reprieve from the dry conditions of previous years to both human and avian kind. New Mexico has been in

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Beavers Do it Better.

You’ve heard about the Slow Food movement, and even Slow Flowers, but what about Slow Water?It could hold the key to combating soil erosion and

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Weird & Wild Water Facts

Science and History of that Life-giving Liquid There are more molecules in one cup of water (0.237 liters) than there are stars in the Milky

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Aqua Es Vida

Water is used in many ways in everyday life. We use it to shower, for laundry, dishes, etc. There are many other ways water is

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The Texan Santa Fe Expedition

The Republic of Texas made big claims about owning eastern New Mexico. Their one attempt to assert authority across the Plains ended in embarrassment. The

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Poems of the Month

Perhaps the World Ends Here The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.The gifts of earth are brought

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The Garden At the Library

Let’s talk about the Garden at the Questa Public Library, “What garden?” you ask! “Not that mixture of bare dirt and weeds, sloppy mud, picnic

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October 2022: Harvest Fare

HARVEST FARE Some of the best ways to use the abundance of harvest vegetables this season include a tomato tart, a vegetable quiche, and a

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OBITUARY: Patricia Aragon

Patricia Aragon 55, a resident of Questa, passed away unexpectedly Aug. 29, 2022. She was preceded in death by her mother Helen Aragon; niece Felicity

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ASTROLOGY: October 2022

OPPOSITIONS “We are always seeking our opposite whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance.” Michio

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