October 27, 2008
Went home for lunch and finished another El Kid piece. This one is called, "Manos Arriba!" (Hands up!):



I like the dust effects and it looks like the landscape around Anton Chico.

PHOENIX (AP) — Tony Hillerman, author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels and creator of two of the unlikeliest of literary heroes — Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee — has died. He was 83.

Hillerman's daughter, Anne Hillerman, said her father's health had been declining in the last couple years and that he was at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque when he died of pulmonary failure Sunday.

Hillerman lived through two heart attacks and surgeries for prostate and bladder cancer. He kept tapping at his keyboard even as his eyes began to dim, as his hearing faded, as rheumatoid arthritis turned his hands into claws.

"I'm getting old," he declared in 2002, "but I still like to write."



"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
—Socrates