Notes from the desert, Sunday:

The photography above is "24 Brand New Hours" by Stu Jenks. It's a picture of the hook by the Bunk House door where I used to hang my house & truck keys, the words written where I'd read them anew whenever I left the place.

Below is a picture of the pencil-wielding Angel of Endicott West, hanging on the wall in the kitchen of the Main House.  (I snapped this one myself, which is why the image is so comparatively blurry.) She's a guardian angel for writers and artists, and we're leaving her here to watch over the new folks moving in.

The quote, hand-written in gold ink: "In the author's mind there bubbles up now and then the material for a story...This nags at him all day long and gets in the way of his work and his sleep and his meals. It's like being in love."

And so it is.