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Category Archives: Hiking in New Mexico

Photos for the day, Saturday April 27, 2013

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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Photos of the day and Quote for the day, Sunday, April 21, 2013

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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Photos of the Day, Sunday Feb 3, 2012

On the way home from the new diggs in Cloudcroft I took a 5 mile detour to the east and stopped at the BLM managed site at Three Rivers where there is a very large collection of petroglyphs, supposedly one of the best in the southwest.   Seen here, a face with earrings, and at […]

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Photo of the day 10.6.2012

Hiked the trails again this weekend and at the upper reaches of the LaLuz trail there were one or two clumps of flowers clinging to life on the side of the mountain.

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Photo of the day, Sunday July 29, 2012

Well, it’s a screen capture turned into a photo, but it’s time to remember so I’m posting it. It’s my Sunday morning walk up the mountain, in case you were wondering. The big news is found in the time section.  See that – even though I started a minute later that indicated, it’s still under […]

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Photos of the day, 7.21.2012

The day is still young, but these were from this morning. This is a good example of an nearly impossible shot without a tripod and a HDR software package.  I actually tried to have Photoshop do an HDR conversion (High Dynamic Range) but it didn’t work out, so what I ended up doing was taking […]

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Photos of the day, Saturday July 14,2012

Today, its about the bugs. Those wings look like plastic. And this guy – I guess I’ll have to change my strategy to take bug photos, especially with larger bugs.  The macro mode on my camera will focus down to one inch, and as you can see, parts of the bee are in focus, and […]

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Skyrocket – Photo of the day July 4, 2012

I suppose it’s fitting to post a flower called a skyrocket on the 4th of July. I had no idea of it’s name till after I was back editing images. The flower is a biennial, with clusters of bright red, trumpet-shaped flowers on slender, often solitary stems up to 2-2 1/2 feet tall.  Typical of […]

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Photo of the day, March 4, 2012

Six hour hike / snowshoe climb to the summit on the La Luz trail. Full story with panorama links here.

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Photo of the day, January 1, 2012

Taken while crashing through the crusted snow in my new snow shoes at 3:30 or so in the afternoon on Sunday. The story is here.

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