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April Snow Line

snow line photo south of Taos

No houses up there, ain’t it grand? »Buy This Photo!«

Crazy energy yesterday morning, what with the late night snow that mostly missed us and the rolling clouds shot through with sun. It was cold, too. Springtime in the Rockies, hoo boy. How wild is it to have a mountainside like this next door? You can see exactly where the freezing was! I love this [...]

Snow Line Dropping

snow line dropping on mountain

This shot taken a couple of hours before it actually snowed

Sometimes snow sweeps in like a thunderstorm. At other times it looks like this, a big gray-white cloud that oh so slowly settles lower and expands in your direction. After a while, the mountain in the distance fades away. A short time later, tiny snowflakes fall, then larger ones. That’s what happened here a little [...]

The Freeze Before the Freeze

2007 Vibe

Not a real license number

She walked up the driveway in the single-digit pre-dawn dark to scrape the windshield like she always does, all this before driving off to exercise at 6:30 a.m. I don’t know how she does either, frankly. On this particular morning, all the doors were frozen shut—a higher order of problem, since the ice scraper was [...]

Extraordinary Day

Llano Quemado, south side of Taos, New Mexico

Windy, low 70s, warm sun, a touch of humidity

You’re going to get tired of these, so I’ll just say it was another one of those days. Absolutely stunning weather (if windy), high energy, rising power. On the human side, free-form adaptation. Things sliding into place. I could use more of whatever this is. I don’t know how to capture it in a photograph. [...]

Summer’s Gone

Taos Mountain in the clouds

Taos Mountain today with dark October sky

Oh, you can tell. Never made it out of the sixties today, heading into the forties tonight. I asked my wife if I should make a fire. Deviously though, as if she were the one to want it: “Not in August!” I understand. Summer is a state of mind at seven thousand feet. (Believe you [...]

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