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The Ides of May

Taos Mountain in the clouds

Taos Mountain in early morning light, 5-15-2015 »Buy This Photo!«

It feels like a turning point of some kind. After all, snow on the mountain is spring with a bullwhip! (That’s the only good line you’re getting out of me tonight, it’s just too late.) Also, I told the truth all neat and clean for once. Not only did I not get killed, but true [...]

Tierra Peligrosa

Taos Mountain in mid-spring

You have to imagine the high winds in this photo, but they’re there »Buy This Photo!«

Springtime in the Rockies, as the saying goes. I even let us run out of wood, because I thought the warm weather would last. What you’re looking at here is an all-too typical early May afternoon at 7,000 feet, about forty-one degrees when I shot this image of Taos Mountain in between snow squalls. That’s [...]

Las Llantas Todavía Están Aquí

water towers and mountains south of Taos

The light today is fabulous »Buy This Photo!«

Yes, that’s true. I haven’t been keeping track, but it’s been about a month. At least someone has arranged the pile so that the tires form a sort of four-leaf clover. Another way of looking at it is that the height of the rubber donation is less than half of what it was. One ought [...]

Mountains in the Morning

Taos Mountain in the clouds

Taos Mountain, 3-19-2015, clouds streaming to the right into the morning sun »Buy This Photo!«

I took the truck to Reyes yesterday morning. It took a while to get there. Two tries, in fact. The ’87 F-150 had become almost impossible to shift. That model has a hydraulic clutch; I hoped it just needed bleeding. Believe me, this was an insider trip. As far as I can tell, the guy’s [...]

Dawn in Llano Quemado

Dawn in Taos

A few degrees above zero when I shot this

Somehow I was up early enough to take this picture a few days ago. Who knows if the light breaking over the mountains here is any kind of portent, but I am having lots of fun formatting my new book for print. This interest in laying out a physical book is something of a first [...]

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