“Ohhh my heart is a monster of love swallow you up like a dove, in the eye of a hurricane ohhh making my heart sing, over and over again” (silly old song I wrote years ago – JHF) My wife drove off to her studio a while ago. These colors remind me of what she [...]
Nature
Mountains, mountains, mountains. Thank God.
With just a little smoke! That’s coming in from the west (left) and barely visible in this shot, but later it would completely obscure the view. I don’t even know which forest was burning. Take your pick in the Southwest this summer. The truth is that fire is natural to these places. Lightning sets it [...]
I have so many of these shots now. Too much beauty!
Went walking the other day, my usual (for now) four-mile hike. I was planning to detour down a large arroyo—animal tracks, burrows, skeletons, artifacts—when I remembered I’d seen some beautiful red cactus flowers of some kind just starting to open at the end of my usual trail, so I stuck to it. It’s a good [...]
Looking east from Taos Valley Overlook
I took this yesterday, the same day I fell down. You could imagine the photographer standing there with a throbbing bloody knee, perhaps. Once more I am in awe of how far and how well one can see when the air’s not fouled by smoke from burning forests. There’s a little fire haze in this [...]
Close-up shot with telephoto lens
So ferocious-looking, yet so harmless. I love “horny toads” (horned toads to you). Easy to catch out in the open because they freeze when you approach. Primary food? Big red ants. I found this fellow at Taos Valley Overlook on BLM land. He tolerated me way longer than I ever would have. When I was [...]
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