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Photo of the day, Saturday, January 4, 2015

Back up to the top of the mountain after what was supposed to be a dumping of fresh snow.

There was some, but the wind was the story on this day.

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Photo of the day, January 1, 2015

First hike of the new year.  Journal entry with more photos and panoramas here.
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Photos of the day, October 26, 2014 – San Diego, CA

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Photo of the day, October 18, 2014

Great fall hike in the Sandias.

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Photos of the afternoon, October 11, 2014

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Photos of the Day, July 12, 2014

Moonset over Albuquerque

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Photo of the day, June 14, 2014

Honey Moon over Albuquerque – Not the Friday the 13th moon but Saturday the 14th.

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Photos of the day, April 23, 2014

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Photos of the day, Saturday April 11, 2014

I went for a different hike today because the tram was closed.  I had hiked up to about 8,800 feet and gone close to 5 miles when I came across a two hikers who had stopped to photograph a flower.  I was glad to see that they had stopped because I might have overlooked it.  It is a Pulsatilla otherwise known as a pasqueflower.  Since it blooms around the time of Easter, it has the name pasque which means: of Easter.

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Larger   images will be over in the Journal when I post all of the images there.

The two men also told me about a flowering cactus that they had seen just a short ways up the trail.  I had almost decided to turn around because my boots were bothering me but the idea of finding a flowering cactus so high up the mountain so early in the season intrigued me.  I had seen the first claret cactus in bloom down around 6,500 feet and I could not imagine another cactus blooming so high on the mountain.

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Commonly known at a mountain ball cactus, its scientific name is Pediocactus simpsonii.  It is one of the most cold hardy species which it would have to be, seeing as I found it in a very narrow range on the south peak approach above 9,300 feet. It grows very low to the ground and is not of significant note except when it is blooming.

Photo of the day, Sunday March 30, 2014

I am pretty sure that I don’t have this flower in my collection.  I found it while going off trail a short ways near 7,600 feet on the whitewash trail.

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