Photo of the day

The rains missed us last night and this afternoon but the upper reaches of the trails were still wet.  I took a slightly different route up the mountain today to see if I might find some different flowers and sure enough, I was graced with some beauties. The Starburst lives up to it’s name, especially […]

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This was only my third climb up the mountain since it reopened and the second attempt to see how my new (to me) camera would perform.  Fortunately we have had plenty of rain these past weeks and the flowers have started to appear again on the mountain. One would think that it is spring again […]

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I was working on a home improvement project Thursday evening when out of the corner of my eye I saw a flash of light.  In my house however that’s not always what it appears since we have some kind of anti-hardshell bug repellers that emit a bright blue flash of light on a regular basis. […]

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With the second hike in for the new post-drought season, I’ve taken a new camera to the mountain to see if it’s a “keeper” or whether I’ll simply return it to E-Bay from whence it came. Although I didn’t get any time to look at the manual before starting the hike, I have a good […]

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This year fireworks are pretty much banned all around New Mexico, except for the public displays that are put on by various townships and cities.  As we drove into Alamogordo last night we happened to catch a lot of the action since it was set up in the foothills above the city. While hiking the […]

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It’s about time.  Hopefully the photo drought is over, as will be the real drought, sooner rather than later. I’ve written about it over in the journal.

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I happened to be driving home yesterday from the fix-it store and remembered that it was the “Supermoon” weekend, prompted of course by a giant rising full moon over the mountains.  Unfortunately there was a rather thick layer of high cloud that obscured the moon so I put it out of my mind until later […]

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While working on my slideshow galleries of wildflowers this week I learned a new word, Pollinator.  With this word though, came a second new one, embedded in the definition that I found on Wikipedia. A pollinator is the biotic agent (vector) that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization orsyngamy of the female gamete in the ovule of the flower […]

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Domestic flower terrorist in training, deep in thought.

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I had hoped to try and climb the mountain twice today and as such, I was on the trail earlier than normal, at 6:50am to be exact.  Since the mountain is closing due to the fire danger, one of the early victims has been the wildflowers, either wilted shortly after blossom or not showing up […]

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