Photo of the day

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

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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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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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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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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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Recently I bought a “pocket” or “travel” camera that has a great zoom, HD video and is small and compact.  So small and compact in fact that it fell out of my hands one day as I was getting stuff out of the car and it landed on the concrete. Bad move for a digital […]

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No fireworks tonight, at least not at the local country club. It was great however, to be up on the roof and watching the horizon explode in every quadrant with flashes and booms and all the noise that is the celebration of the 4th. We, my hiking friend from Michigan and I, are very tired. […]

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