Photo of the day

I headed out to the top of the mountain today to try out my Christmas present – snow shoes. At the tram boarding I shot this photo which missed the top speed that I saw, 55mph. I looked up the wind-chill for those figures and it was 4 degrees F. I slogged through the snow […]

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Sunset highlights the Sandias – taken through my office window.

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After being in New Mexico for 6 fall seasons I can say that it’s pretty hard to find much red in our trees.  The usual color is yellow, and occasionally we get some orange, but you can generally rule out the bright reds of the sugar maples found in the midwest and northeast. Occasionally however, […]

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We all knew that this day was upon us, because we have had two teases since the first snow on the second weekend of the Balloon Fiesta. I climbed it yesterday, but didn’t take out the camera, nothing really stuck my fancy.  Above 9,000 feet there was about an inch or two on the trail […]

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I was up way too early to catch a 6am flight that landed in Phoenix at 6:20am, courtesy of the time zone switch.  As I got of the rental car bus I had to dig into my rolling briefcase to pull out my “travel camera” which has been ruined by a problem that many Panasonic Lumix cameras […]

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