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...