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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A 4:45am wake up sent me to the computer in the other room to check the actual weather conditions at the balloon fiesta park.  Fearful of the forecast, I was most pleased that the winds were calm.  We woke our guest and were out the door just after 5:30. Later in the park she said […]

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What a weekend. I think I took more photos of more unusual things than I’ve ever done on a single weekend before. A cold front brought tons of rain and snow for the high elevations. The full sized image is here.  (After the image loads in the browser window, click on it for a full […]

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From the land of all that Albuquerque is not, I submit the following:     “From this point I beheld the grandest and most pleasing prospects which my eyes ever surveyed, in my frount a boundless Ocean; … a most romantic appearance.”  January 8, 1806 William Clark – Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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Probably about as close as I’m ever going to get to being on the top of Mt. Ranier Once upon a time I thought I’d try and bag this fourteener but the logistics never made it possible.  Besides, I really only like snow for downhill skiing. And after landing – we headed for all that […]

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Its getting to be that time, when the evenings are cooler and a glass of wine on the balcony is a most welcome end to the day.    

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