Just look at that! The Rio Grande is way the hell down there somewhere. If the Comanches had had wingsuits, history might have been different. I took this photo standing in the same spot as before, by the way. Just did an about-face and boom, there it was. Los Alamos is across the valley up [...]
New Mexico
Taos Mountain’s in there somewhere but I love the clouds
That was the temperature when I took off yesterday to walk. It was just a little past ten o’clock. The trail at Taos Valley Overlook was suck-your-boots-off muddy just before it snowed the day before, but I hoped the mud would be frozen hard that early and it was. No one else was hiking. There [...]
Telephoto of Taos Mountain from our road two days ago
I had a wonderful personal revelation today while I was hiking in the snow (and mud) at Taos Valley Overlook. On the off chance that there’s a point in here somewhere, enjoy… For years I’ve questioned what I did in getting us to move out here. Especially in times of fear, focusing on lack and [...]
It always smooths one out to come here
Just sharing some beauty from the weekend with this view of the Rio Grande at Orilla Verde in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. And actually, that may not be right. Since the Orilla Verde area was included in the new national monument, maybe it doesn’t rate a special designation any more. I’ll have [...]
Telephoto shot from the back yard just this morning
We went to look at a house in San Cristobal yesterday. Just a peek-in-the-windows thing. Hearing the traffic go whistling past on the nearby highway killed the deal, but driving up that way again was notable. The mountain village was our first stop in New Mexico, you see. (For the lowdown on San Cristobal, Buffalo [...]
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