I love new moons. (This one was 3-1-2014.) I love being aware of new moons. I like that in an astrological, psychological, spiritual, and folkloric sense, it’s an opportunity for new beginnings. Remember, this isn’t just some idiot’s idea but the actual moon itself, lined up on the same side of the Earth as the [...]
Garden of Eden
Taos Mountain (what else) up to no good with the clouds
This is what I saw—more or less—when I looked out my window on Friday afternoon. Wild earth, wild sky, and where they meet. This is where the monsters live. In Maryland it happened where the water met the sand. Wildness wasn’t so much a factor as “relatively undisturbed.” In places along the tidal rivers, there [...]
Motherlode of truth
Tell me we’re not surrounded by love. See the different blues and greens and reds, the backlit droplets bouncing off the rocks, the reflections and the light. The water is moving fast from right to left. It’s all alive. We’ve even got two female goldeneyes (ducks) in there. I mean, you could start a religion [...]
Mallards and goldeneyes behind the geese
What an incredible visit to the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument today. A bald eagle flew right over our heads, and afterwards we spotted two more. It could have been the same one, I suppose, but thinking we saw three eagles feels a whole lot better. We also saw several kinds of ducks, numerous [...]
See the snow line, like someone used a giant spray gun?
For the record, pronounced i-MOLK (no “b”). It actually means “in the belly” and refers to the pregnancy of ewes. According to Wikipedia, Imbolc is “one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals along with Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain.” As such, the February 1st midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox has been an [...]
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