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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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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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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