In June, with the story told July 27, a New York Times reporter accompanied a Navajo shepherdess taking her Churro sheep on the traditional summer migration into the mountains. He doesn’t quite get that spinning and weaving are the words for the parts of the process with the wool he’s trying to describe, but he does pretty well overall. He gives the history of the breed and the people and respects her request to only tell so much.

I’ve read of Navajos and their Churros before but have never been given so close a view.

On a trivial aside, I know I know the brand of spinning wheel hers is or at least that it looks like, but it’s not coming to me. Anyone?

Anyway. If you click on his link on the word Churro, you get a beautiful picture of one in full coat. I love his observation that the older sheep knew what the day meant and the route and led the way.