Photo of the day

It was all happening in the sky today I guess, at least from the point of view of my cameras. I only had time to use my cell phone to take this one after walking out from an early Valentines day dinner.

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Setting Moon behind Mt. Taylor, New Mexico Tomorrow I hope to have time to set up my camera before it sets.  Hopefully there will be a nice clear sky.  Tomorrow there will be 30 more minutes of light that should give more definition to the mountain.

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Saturday, after I realized that it would be fruitless to try and get to the top of the mountain, I decided that I could still get a reasonable workout by hiking the connecting trail for a couple of hours.  It’s amazing how much one is slowed down by trying to hike through 3 or 4 […]

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Grabbed a couple of shots of some climbing action this afternoon These were shot with the telephoto setting on the camera.  I’ve not had time yet to put together the panorama that I shot that shows the full area of the climb. After he got to the top, he adjusted his anchors and began to […]

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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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  I think this is a Horned Lizard – lives on ants and the like, seen on the Crest Trail, near the Tram.

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I used my tram pass to hike the upper trails prior to my big weekend of hiking, did a quick 4 miles and was able to sit and watch the sun set from 10,000 feet. For a bit of interesting perspective, the mountain 5 years ago was covered in fresh snow and I took off […]

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The mountain is almost devoid of bright color, especially since we have had little snow and no rain this spring. The cactus are still the bright spots on the lower mountain. Tucked away under a larger Cholla Cactus, the hedgehog lives, in and out of the sun.

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On my climb today I found the first wildflowers of the season. Now, perhaps the Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus is not considered a wildflower, but in my book, it counts, and this is my book. This particular cactus was just next to another that was about to burst into twenty to thirty blooms, which I hope […]

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I’ve tried to memorialize this tree several times this week but the light just was not right.  This evening, bright sun with a background of gray clouds helped, but it’s still not as good as the real thing.

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