This won’t make much sense to anyone outside the state, but here goes:
See this picture? I can’t ever walk past a “Win This Car!” banner without at least inquiring as to the price of the raffle tickets. In this case a chance to win the 2008 Nissan Versa being given away a month from now [...]

I’m on the way to a short dental appointment in Santa Fe: distance from Llano Quemado (Ranchos de Taos) is about 70 miles. For unimportant reasons, I left early and have about 40 minutes to kill, so I stopped at the Oasis Cybercafe in Española where I am now…

Caffeine and comfort

It’s on the edge of [...]

A slightly different version of this and one other at FotoFeed. That’s from early yesterday afternoon, taken five minutes south of town looking roughly north.

Rio Grand Gorge w/ storm over Lobo Peak

Probably only Leos broadcast their birthdays in advance. No, not to get presents or put on airs — Leos don’t have to — but because they feel free to do so. It’s natural. The last thing my wife would do, or would have done even many years ago, is talk up her birthday, except privately [...]

I’m slowly catching up, still a day or two behind, but there are four more to see.
Meanwhile: here, for your viewing pleasure, is a baby horned toad. Yes, I finally “caught” one. This is a telephoto shot from about four feet away, cropped in Photoshop to bring it even closer. That’s one reason it’s a [...]

Things like this never happen when I have my camera with me.
Yesterday my wife and I took our exercise walk up the mesa. On the way back we saw two baby horned toads! These were two separate incidents, amazingly. And when I say “baby,” I mean tiny, about the size of my thumbnail. I took [...]

Okay, here you go, growing just outside the door, practically. I make a mean apricot pie, or better yet, turnovers. Apricots growing right out of the ground! Don’t say I never gave you nuthin.

No, these aren’t ripe yet, but we’re gonna have a ton of ‘em

Man, are there a lot of bugs this year.
The funny thing is, for the longest time before and after we moved out here I had the idea that there weren’t any bugs in New Mexico. I have no idea why. My late mother-in-law, reeling with ecological guilt, used to say “they don’t salt the streets [...]

How did it get to be five days?? Anyway, FotoFeed is now current again. Today’s image is a cropped closeup from the shot below. It also shows up as the current header rollover on this page. (Mouse over my mug shot for a real thrill.) There’s even a hint of a rainbow:

Looking east toward El [...]

It rained all Friday evening, which was novel.
I forget what happened the next morning, but we took off in the afternoon to drive down to a restaurant north of Santa Fe to meet my wife’s cousins. Very smart people. (One of them asks the most amazing questions.) On the way home we saw flooding in [...]