Hello Tim.
I think you might remember me as Proffessor Paul Hunter's son, Martin. I recently came across your album "Little Miracles" and was overjoyed. "Lefty" has been a song that I can still remember by heart from being 10 yrs old. I am now a musician myself, and would love to pick your brain. It's been a long time since you stepped in that cactus in Santa Fe, but i will never forget that you didn't miss a beat as you were playing. I must say that you made quite an impression on me as a musician in my youth. I am going to try to get in tough with you through my dad, but i have much to ask, and even more to play. or if youd like, please call me at my "email".

i love don's poem its funny but true i live out on a ranch in texas 40 miles out of lubbock and my land is soo dry i have 5 wells allover my land its complicated to ride my horses without them beening spooked by those wells its embarrasing! :)

I simply love your works. You are truly blessed by all that is wonderful around you. Im am so looking forward to be able to enjoy the pleasures in your State. Thanks.

This place seems like a dream I would love to come have a tour and learn all I can!

THat was A Joke BTW!

Hey i was researcheing on this buried treasure thing and i think its under your house!

Tim,
Thanks so much for your kind article on "The Hunts." The group forwarded it to my office (I manage The Hunts with their record producer Mark Carman at MCM World Media) They also forwarded this to East Coast Touring (The Hunts Booking agency) and the team there was also delighted to read the piece you wrote. I agree, let's not wait another five years to hear The Hunts play in the great state of New Mexico...(Justin will be an old man of 19!)

Hi, Tim: Haven't seen you for over 20 years. Living above Monterey Bay now, writing and recording songs and writing screenplays. So, you're 38 miles outside of Raton, with your bride Christina! I thoroughly explored your website, enjoying it immensely. Have a great 2013!

Hi Tim! The Fireballs want to thank you for starting our 2013 New Year off with a New Mexico Magazine 'bang' ! A very nice piece of work and thankful you chose us for the article. Norman Petty, would be happy & proud too. Happy New Year !

I kicked started my education career Aug 1972 and marriage Jan 1973 in Des Moines New Mexico. Great families, super kids. It was a perfect fit for lynne and i.

Love the read, and the names brought back fond memories of the area.

Just read your article about the Fireballs, excellent story timeline and the photos were the cherry on the Sundae. Your art of photography and writing blesses the readers of this magazine.

Sorry about the type error, ha it was homemade bread that her Mom would make for us. My prayer are with her family.

Ms. Jackson was a wonderful teacher and life long friend. She was my favorite teacher, I remember like yesterday the trips she and I went on to Colorado horse ranch spend the night and come back the next day. Her Mom would make us sandwiches with homemade bread. Many great memories. I will miss her and will remember her always.

Tim:
So sorry to hear about Ms. Jackson. She was THE reason I became an English teacher. She taught so much more that English. Those Life Lessons will stay with everyone who was in her classrom for many years to come. She will live on because of her influence and effect on so many of her students.

Ms Jackson was by far one of my favorite high school teachers. She was fair, stern, caring, effective and her love of horses apparent. God Bless you Ms Jackson. You made a positive mark on so many of us.

Ms Jackson was by far one of my favorite high school teachers. She was fair, stern, caring, effective and her love of horses apparent. God Bless you Ms Jackson. You made a positive mark on so many of us.

Tim - Thanks for the great article on Linda Jackson. Like hundreds of kids, I saw the teacher and never realized that she could have an interesting life outside of school! She helped me appreciate and use my writing skills. Wish I would have known her better!

I'm sad that you've passed on, Ms Jackson. In high school, you were my English teacher.

While in College... your words, your style and your lessons got me through those required English classes so you technically were still my English teacher.

When I started my career with AT&T, you were lessons were reminders of effective words, polished phrases and proper communications skills. You took me far, my special English teacher.

After I retired from AT&T after twenty eight years... I look back and am so very happy that you were as diligent an English teacher as she was a lover of horses.

I HAVEN'T SEEN OR TALKED TO YOU SINCE HIGH SCHOOL but for many years, your lessons have never left me.

Hi there Tim Mrs Linda Jackson was my english teacher and was an amazing lady. She was the best english teacher i had and a great lady that taught me alot about horses. She will greatly missed and never forgotten

Hi Sweetie.... Oh, yes you can zoom!!!

Hey Tim, Just picked up a New Mexico Magazine. A great article on Raton, and your photography was wonderful as always. Thanks very much for the mention!

Really enjoyed the sights and 'sounds' on your website. I hope u enjoy the expressing of these things as much as we enjoy viewing and listening (with the mind's ear).Great!

Nice work, Tim. I enjoy your blogs, your articles, and photography, and for continuing to shed light on the arts in Northeastern New Mexico in your most talentd way. Keep up the good work!

Yatahay Tim, sounds like it was a great ride! I rode my horse and packed my other horse from Texas/Mexico border to Montana/Canadian border using only pre 1840 gear all primitive in 2010 with no back up support! 2200 miles mostly in the back country, I want to write a book on it.

Hi Tim i'm an old friend of Don and Brittany Rouse, i used to work with them at the stockyards ,i've lost touch with them and would like to get a hold of them , i found this article on them and was thrilled to see they were doin so well , can you help me , i need a phone # or an email address, Thank You Nancy

Hi Carrie,
A Google search for "'Texas Summer Nights' album" brings up Mickie, Tracie, Denice, the Ash Family, and more, though I'm not optimistic you'll ever find an LP available. Your best hope is to find someone who has coverted the tracks to digital as I eventually did with my early recordings. TSN is truly a one-of-a-kind classic: good luck!
Tim

Hello Tim,
Congratulations on your continued success!

My parents lost their home in the San Marcos Flood of 1998. Also lost was the Summer Nights Album I loved and listned to when I visited there.How might I find this music so loved again? Is it on line anywhere? My Brother and Sister went to college there and also loved that album..and I would love to surprise them with a copy!

It is was awesome Album!...and I would really appreciate your help!

Thanks, Carrie

WOW! Now that is what I call an Endurance trail Ride! I would love to do something like this! How does one get involved?

Did Will Banister mention that he does impersonations?? Check out his youtube videos! What an entertainer! Thanks for the awesome coverage!

What a wonderful act, Will Banister & the Mulberry Band.... Nara Visa has great taste in music and an amazing Community Center.

Looking forward to hearing more of Will and his band; watching this act rise.

I would love to see that video of Will doing Your Cheatin' Heart in diapers!

Thanks for a great adventure/date!!!

Wow! What a nice article on your website! The pictures are great! I really appreciate your efforts. We have never had an article written about the school before. I am looking forward to reading the paper tonight!

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...