Another Nagasaki Day birthday coming up on Tuesday! I don’t know why this is so important to me. It always is, at any rate, perhaps because I’m a Leo and was born on such a historic date. Everywhere I’ve ever lived (except here in Taos), I’ve known scads of Leos, and there always was a [...]
Garden of Eden
Looking west from Taos Valley Overlook today, after the slaughter (see below!)
The first thing was, to kill them all: big black flies! You know, the kind that get inside the house and buzz around at night, thonking into your lampshade, the ones you can’t ignore. But this was something out of a nightmare: each of the three small windows in the bathroom was covered with at [...]
Taos proper just a little to the left and three more miles
This is the view we see every time we go to town. (Another iPhone 6s Plus shot, zoomed in this time, which does affect the quality.) I have a soft spot for the property in the foreground because the former owner built real hot rods and drove them every day. After he moved away, the [...]
What a privilege to be here
We were driving along the Rio Grande a few miles north of Pilar at the southern end of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument when we spotted about a dozen female bighorn sheep in two separate groups, one of which was moving down toward the river to drink. After parking in a day use [...]
Sensory Overload City
Why beat around the bush? I wanted you to see the setting for Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge in southern Colorado. The peaks you’re looking at top out at over fourteen thousand feet! For that matter, the ground your photographer is standing on is 7,664 feet above sea level. The cranes don’t seem to mind [...]
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