Pagosa Springs Daily Digest Monday, May 11, 2026
Ty's Take
Mother's Day falls different out here than it does in places where you can order flowers and have them waiting on a doorstep by noon. Up in Archuleta County, a lot of the women we're thinking about this Sunday are the ones who kept the ranch going through the drought years, or raised kids mostly alone while their husbands worked timber or fire season, or—and this matters in a place where we've lost more than a few to wildfire evacuations and long winters—held families together across lines that didn't always make sense on a map. The ones worth remembering aren't always the ones in the photographs either. Some of them are gone now. Some of them still live here and we see them at the market. Either way, Sunday's a good day to make it plain that we noticed.
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