Sometimes snow sweeps in like a thunderstorm. At other times it looks like this, a big gray-white cloud that oh so slowly settles lower and expands in your direction. After a while, the mountain in the distance fades away. A short time later, tiny snowflakes fall, then larger ones. That’s what happened here a little [...]
New Mexico
Still running 10 to 15 degrees above average here
Oh, you’ll find it. This is a telephoto shot, but I could hear him (?) squawking all the way across the road. It was all of a piece: a welcome end to Thursday night’s rain, the light about to break through low-hanging clouds, the raven calling the sun. Just a couple hundred feet above us, [...]
Looks to me like it’s advancing
This is San Antonio Mountain (10,9o8 ft), a free-standing volcanic peak in the Taos Plateau volcanic field of the Rio Grande Rift valley. I took the telephoto shot at 5:37 p.m. Mountain Time two days ago before the big snow on Sunday. You’re looking at that weather coming here, in fact. The leading edge of [...]
Only took the one shot here, no need to stick around
This photo taken early in the morning on February 25, 2001 in San Cristobal, New Mexico, was the basis for the cover of the first ebook version of Buffalo Lights, the amazing story of jumping headfirst off a cliff. No, wait, it’s about our moving to New Mexico! (Haha, just kidding, it hasn’t killed us [...]
Telephoto shot, of course. They’re very skittish.
Most Americans call these antelope. I know we do. That’s not what they are, though, and it would be more accurate to call them “pronghorns.” Although Antilocapra americana evolved under the same conditions as Old World antelope and (except for their horns) are physiologically very similar, the animals are unique. According to Wikipedia: [The pronghorn] [...]
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