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Summer’s Eve

rainbow over Llano Quemado (Ranchos)

It’s almost actually warm, too »Buy This Photo!«

I‘ll bet most people in the Northern Hemisphere think of June, July, and August as “summer.” Meteorologically speaking, the three warmest months of the year are the climatological summer, so in that sense they’d be correct. I know I always think of June that way, hence the “summer’s eve” photo taken after yesterday’s showers. My [...]

Gold Mine in the Sky

somewhere in New Mexico

Somewhere in New Mexico »Buy This Photo!«

On the way to where I took this photo on September 13, 2008, well before the going got rough, he showed me and the others where he’d once dynamited a roadside cliff for gold. You could do that then, before the troubles—buy TNT and blasting caps at the hardware store, go out and seek your [...]

Knock Knock

vista near the gorge

Take away the freeways, something happens »Buy This Photo!«

I was walking along this escarpment a couple of days ago. The wind was strong and blowing from the west, hitting the cliff below straight on, blasting an updraft over the top. Moments before I took this photo, a pair of turkey vultures swooped up from the arroyo below, riding on the current! It was [...]

Apparition by the Gorge

view northwest from Llano Quemado

Lookng northwest from near our home »Buy This Photo!«

I was out there in that vastness earlier on a hike. The clouds hadn’t rolled in yet with their dragging rain, and I’d taken a different route down this time. Almost right away I spied someone jogging up the trail from the gorge. I hate meeting people on the trail, of course. Number one, they’re [...]

Cold Air Balloon

hot-air balloon

Last Friday, about 7:30 a.m…

The post previously associated with this photo has been deleted due to reasons of terminal idiocy. Enjoy the view, however! »Buy This Photo!«

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