Photo of the day

Right time, right place, right equipment, right application.  They all came together on a late Sunday afternoon. The story of it all is over at the journal with larger images, including panoramas. Just click on any image for the enlargement.

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The wild and uncultivated is no longer needed in a world that only looks out the window at itself. John Hay, The Immortal Wilderness More quotes on wilderness and nature found here. The expanded entry can be found over on the journal pages.

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Expanded entry with more images at the journal pages. L

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First hike of the new year.  Journal entry with more photos and panoramas here.      

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Great fall hike in the Sandias.    

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The weather suggested that I would find drama, and the mountain did not disappoint.  I wrote about it with images that can be made even larger over on the journal pages.

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Today’s photo of the day holds good news and bad news. The good news is that there are flowers about, and that means that it’s getting warm enough to hike in shorts and a t-shirt. The bad news is that it’s warm enough to hike in shorts and a t-shirt because that means that just […]

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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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It’s good to be back on the mountain and it rewarded me this morning with an unusual abundance of wildflowers. Although August was dry, it appears that the July rains and the most recent rains have brought out the flowers in mass. I saw a splash of red very early on in my hike and […]

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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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