Everyone else’s is dark brown and ours is green. For that and other reasons, this is kind of a special deal. For over ten years there’s been a sharing arrangement with the garbage can. When the dead landlord was alive, we had a bigger thing we called “the dumpster” that I burned up one night [...]
Taos
Funny how the camera takes the bumps out of the driveway
As you can see, it’s not the dead of winter yet. Sunny and dry, above average temps. There’s only a little mud, too, so that’s all right. Naturally it’s also getting darker all the time, but that’s how we like it out here in the terrible high desert when the icy cold begins to blow. [...]
Telephoto from the back yard
What do I know, it just happens. This shot across the Talpa valley shows you where the snowline is. There’s a certain glory in this mess that’s helpful in a crunch, and am I not addicted to the drama, anyway? I spit on you, you ugly beast. (No, not this!) The days grow short but [...]
Taos Mountain, late Tuesday afternoon
Beautiful and terrifying, yes? Thank God we had a wood delivery this afternoon, the very piñon you see here. Pointing to the mountain after we’d unloaded, my wood guy said, “This is going to scare a lot of people. My phone is ringing off the hook…” That’s because the place he cut my load is [...]
Just south of the John Dunn Bridge near Arroyo Hondo on the Rio Grande
Okay, sure, just what you’d expect to find at the bottom of a gorge. They’d actually just touched the water with the basket, but I didn’t get my camera out in time. A little farther up the road from where I shot this, I saw the flat place where they launch these things. You would [...]
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