This happens to me all the time: no matter how much at home I feel at any given moment, no matter how often my heart sings with joy at being in the mountains, no matter many epiphanies or transcendental experiences I’ve had, whenever I hear of someone leaving Taos, my first reaction is almost always [...]
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Wednesday evening sunset
Thoughts from the past pull me down. Can’t look at this stuff. I’m older now, with more awareness. Sure, I’d do things differently in an impossible world. The horror is misplaced, in other words. I imagine something that never could have been. There is no crime! Women are better at this, I think. More present. [...]
So wild, so poor, so cool, and so expensive
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 [...]
The things you’d see if you lived here, oh man
About an hour from where we live is the impossibly high village of Truchas, NM at a little over 8,000 feet. This is one stupendous topography we have in northern New Mexico. I’ll never get over how one can drive from sagebrush mesas to roaring mountain streams in under 30 minutes! And of course, there’s [...]
Looking west from Taos Valley Overlook, gorge just beyond the shadow
There was a time once when I declared this wasn’t a photo-blog. I wonder why I bother. The main thing is, I’m sharing something. The view above lifted my spirits in a most delightful way when I first encountered it. The air was bitterly cold, but just the sight of all that sunshine on the [...]
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