How did the custom of waiting until 5:00 p.m. before having a drink of alcohol ever get started? Crazy, isn’t it? I’ve been waging guerilla war against the practice for decades, rarely with much success, so I’m happy to report that I shot the above scene yesterday at approximately 23 minutes before the hour, with [...]
Taos
Walking rain in the distance »Buy This Photo!«
I was just about to serve our dinner when I saw the battered Jeep Cherokee pull into the driveway. The driver stopped but left the engine running noisily, then got out and started walking to the door. I put down my spatula and went outside to meet him. Barefoot, as it turned out, which put [...]
Three days later: rain, sleet, and snow! »Buy This Photo!«
Behold the gorge! Behold the rift valley! Behold the extinct volcanoes! Behold the shadowy sage! Behold what must be the five hundredth photo I’ve shot and posted of this exact same view! Behold, behold! Each one is different, though, that’s the amazing thing. This time of year, I’m always surprised to cast my gaze across [...]
Painting is entitled “Interlude at Possum Cove.” Yours truly is the man. »Buy This Photo!«
No more running. I’ve already hemmed and hawed and sniffed and pawed and dreamed and schemed and tried to cheat my way to heaven for more years than most of you reading this have been alive. The last fifteen years in Taos have blown the half-way measures all to hell, but that’s probably what they [...]
Eternal contradiction of New Mexico »Buy This Photo!«
Moving to New Mexico in ’99 was a good way to escape from America, or so I thought at the time, but it looks like it followed me here. (My self certainly did.) The tires magically appeared in the turnaround circle of the dirt road that no one owns or gives a shit about in [...]
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