Jesus, I fell down again on a hiking trail! Not too far from where I took that photo, actually. This is getting old, or is it? There was definitely some strangeness involved this time. Read on and see what you think. Yesterday evening I was out at Taos Valley Overlook as usual, on the way [...]
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I have so many of these shots now. Too much beauty!
Went walking the other day, my usual (for now) four-mile hike. I was planning to detour down a large arroyo—animal tracks, burrows, skeletons, artifacts—when I remembered I’d seen some beautiful red cactus flowers of some kind just starting to open at the end of my usual trail, so I stuck to it. It’s a good [...]
Rift Valley Trail, Taos Valley Overlook
About five minutes after taking this shot, I tripped and tumbled forward, falling spread-out kaboom, flat on my face on the narrow trail. My forearms and knees took most of the blow. I was moving quickly descending a hill, probably not standing up straight, and my stick wasn’t positioned to help. The stumble sent me [...]
Riffing on the tires here, gimme a minute
Yes, friends, that mountain is 12,835 ft high. The trail up to the summit is allegedly suitable for beginners, other than the altitude sickness thing if you just drove in from the the flatlands or the coast. I knew what a coast was once. If you consider this scene, it’s a conceptually close facsimile. May [...]
This picture is so brilliant, I don’t know where to start
Warm and windy now, about 67 °F (19.5 °C), humidity 16%. You can do anything in weather like this, because the sun is glorious but you don’t get sweaty. So long as what you’re working on doesn’t blow away, it’s kind of miraculous, really. That cool/warm thing where you’re fine in shorts and T-shirt so [...]
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