June 8, 2014 8:29 PM
by JHF
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Birds,
Taos
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I’m expecting kangaroos next
We were sitting at the bottom of our driveway. My wife got up to fetch something from the house and froze, facing the road with the most amazed expression on her face. I happened to have my camera in my lap and stood up, too. There at the top of the driveway by the garbage can was a great big freaking peacock!
I walked slowly towards him with my camera, but he edged away and headed down the road, where I took the shot you see above. Choosing suicide over fame, however, he soon veered left into the pińon, juniper, and cactus, never to be seen again. If he lasted until sunset, I’d be real surprised. Without a mothership to beam him up, a roving pack of yappy dogs—not to mention coyotes, bobcats, racoons, foxes, and mountain lions—will have his ass in damn short order.
UPDATE: So much for me as a peacock expert. It’s almost dark know. I just jumped up because I saw something huge fly past the window. You know what it was. When I walked up to the glass, it took off from a spot about fifty feet away and flew quite well into the upper branches of a giant elm. At this moment, the bird is roosting fifty feet above the ground in the back yard of the house next door.
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June 8, 2014 11:47 AM
by JHF
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Taos
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From the cliff at Taos Valley Overlook: Rio Pueblo far below, mesa on the right is Native land, road to Carson in the distance
There was a post here once, but something happened to it. Time passes, things change. You try one angle, it works for half a day. Take another stab, who knows? Ah, well. If anyone is seriously interested in the death mother archetype, you might try this.
Enjoy the view (and watch your step)!
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Any color you want, lots of different styles
So it’s come to that, has it? Well, yes and no. I just had to take a break from editing to do something fun, so I spent a couple days setting up a shop at Redbubble.com. (The image above is enlarged from the product page for the HUMMER SOUL T-shirt.) The new “Store” tab in the nav menu takes you directly there. The only other design available at the moment is called OFFICIAL PEYOTE. Yes, right now you can buy a T-shirt and all kinds of things with one of these two beauties on the front or back. Nifty!
This is also something I’ve always wanted to do. Not for the money, really, but to have a way to manufacture something on impulse. Redbubble seems to have its act together, so we’ll see. The cool thing is that if I want a crazy-ass one-off shirt for my own self, I can whip one up and have it in my hands at cost plus shipping. All right, enough of that. Back to work and carry on.
UPDATE: Made $22.76 profit in the four hours I slept after opening the store. I can go to lunch!
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June 2, 2014 10:36 PM
by JHF
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Taos
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Can’t get over how green it looks, and with hardly any rain
Behold The Terrible High Desert™ in all its horror, eh? Give me a place like this and we’re in business, but it hasn’t happened yet. Our buyer’s agent keeps sending me listings for houses in the sagebrush—there’s plenty in this view—and I just can’t relate. Rocks and hills and arroyos to explore is quite the other animal. This is of course a teeny-tiny little piece of the 2,580-acre BLM-managed Taos Valley Overlook area where I go hiking, and you’d have to work to find much fault. I walked five miles here yesterday and met another person, for example. Maybe we should sign up in advance for certain slots so no one else will have to suffer.
As noted in the title, we are plunging into June. Less than a week ago, I was building morning and evening wood stove fires, then all of a sudden, it got warm. Upper eighties today! It’s like a miracle to sit outside and not be cold.
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June 2, 2014 3:50 PM
by JHF
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Art
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No reason to lock it up in Chama
This is the second generation Corvair, which covered the model years from 1965 to ’69. I was around back then but don’t recall seeing very many. Of course, the government was trying hard to kill me then and I didn’t have much time for cars. (Funny how that focuses the mind.)
The second generation was much improved over the original machines. They certainly look better and have a lot more oomph with up to 180 hp. You sit quite low in these and they don’t weigh much, so they must have been a hoot to drive.
[Learn what the hell this has to do with Chama, NM right here.]
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