Ran into a friend in the Bosque, and we both remarked about how low the rio was, and I jokingly said, "I almost feel like I should take a picture of the river every week to sort of document it." She said, "Yeah. That'd be interesting." As she continued with her dog walk, I thought, "I should do that." With rare exceptions, I walk my dog in the bosque every Thursday morning. And with rare exceptions, I walk the bosque behind the National Hispanic Cultural Center (sometimes parking at the NHCC and sometimes parking at the small pullout lot south off of 2nd Street). My idea is to the take a picture in the same spot every Thursday for a year to get a photographic record of how much the river changes over time. I understand a lot about this caged and managed river. Indeed, Reining in the Rio Grande is probably the first sort of scientific, historical, political book on the river I've ever read. That's not a genre I usually read. Without
And then we reach 1980. It's been a decade since they broke up, and as the decade progressed there were more and more opportunities for them to collaborate. Ringo seemed to be the impetus for a lot of those collaborations including at least 3 songs that would've been released on his Stop And Smell The Roses release had Mark David Chapman not chosen to close off this chapter by murdering John Lennon . With the exception of the songs from McCartney II, the albums these songs were pulled from were released after Lennon's death ( Somewhere in England in May, Ringo's Stop And Smell the Roses in October, and Lennon's posthumous Milk and Honey in 1984). Lennon was clearly settling into a new happy direction in his life and writing beautiful and personal songs that further highlight the tragedy of his death. John Lennon had always been the most direct and upfront in his songs, and the songs on Milk and Honey , with about half being Yoko Ono tunes, do just that. It