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fine dining for insects
August 09, 2026 - Despite the heat, (which granted is not nearly as severe as it is in places such as Phoenix and Dubai), there is plenty...
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three lenses, one flower
July 19, 2026 - "Gardening is an active participation in the deepest mysteries of the universe."
Thomas Berry
Last week, the weather...
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blooms, Monet, and life
June 21, 2026 - Yesterday was the Summer Solstice, the longest day and the start of astronomical summer in the northern hemisphere. It i...
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up to the mountains, into the shadows
June 14, 2026 - As the temperatures began to rise, informing us in no uncertain terms that summer had arrived, we felt it was time to he...
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inspiration, persistence and perfection
May 10, 2026 - Perhaps it is the onset of spring in earnest. It could be the still images presented by nature and those that have alrea...
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seasons change/times change
May 03, 2026 - Spring is literally everywhere in the Rock Mountain west. In the higher elevations, it has just begun or is beginning, w...
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At the intersection of high-tech and low-tech
April 17, 2026 - Given the rapid pace of events and communication in the 21st century, it is not uncommon to hear journalists and news re...
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spring surprises unfolding
April 05, 2026 - Whether spring is happening in a yard or around the neighborhood, in the fields or mountains or in gifted blooms, there...
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red again
March 21, 2026 - For those of you who enjoyed the red in last week's blog or are otherwise lovers of the color, here are the five images...
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thoughts and inspiration
March 08, 2026 - A number of things this week have been thought provoking and inspirational. First was the eulogy delivered on Friday at...
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time for love?
February 08, 2026 - The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 10th edition, defines love in these ways "an intense feeling of deep affection",...
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blooms for the spirit
January 25, 2026 - It has been a rough week for many around our country and the world. I have no doubt that those who lived through the tur...
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a brief review
January 05, 2026 - As a friend of ours frequently says before a long and fascinating email, you might want to get another cup of coffee or...
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passageway to 2026
December 27, 2025 - With only three days left in 2025, which was, admittedly, an unsettling and fraught year, we approach the aperture of 20...
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it is all about the light
December 21, 2025 - The earth moves, as it should and as it has for millennia before mammals emerged on the scene. Sunrises and sunsets chan...
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ponder, create, curate, dump and repeat
September 15, 2025 - Under crystal clear skies, with a temperature of 56° outside, autumn in the relative high country of New Mexico is becom...
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after the rain
September 07, 2025 - In October of 2011, a group of tango dancers were gathered in a Taos studio for an intensive weekend of instruction. Two...
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surprises in the rarified air
July 26, 2025 - Every time I walk in the rarified air of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains north and east of Santa Fe, there are surprises.
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in your face gold
July 20, 2025 - One of the most interesting and extremely subtle things about Santa Fe and northern New Mexico at this time of year, is...
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wildflowers in the city
July 13, 2025 - Apparently, my obsession with flowers got the best of me again. This time, it was a small wildflower garden near the Old...
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in praise of pollen and pollinators
July 07, 2025 - It can be a dirty word. Some of you may have looked at today's blog title and uttered numerous and less than complimenta...
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on every corner...
June 23, 2025 - ...in every median, in every yard they appear. Almost as ubiquitous as Russian thistles or tumbleweeds for which the des...
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spines and blooms
June 01, 2025 - The winter of 2024-25 did not offer much in the way of moisture across New Mexico. There was a huge flood near Dexter in...
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flower of the day
May 25, 2025 - Memorial Day 2025. Flags are flying everywhere and flowers lay on the graves or headstones of those who died fighting fo...
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nothing like it
May 05, 2025 - As far as tulips are concerned, the slot in my brain's drive of early memories that includes flowers is vacant. However,...
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blooming
April 28, 2025 - Despite the wind and dust that is typical this time of year in the southern Rocky Mountains, nature's bloom cycle contin...
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breaking through
March 31, 2025 - Spring and March presented themselves in earnest last week with warm winds and sunshine. And all of nature knows this is...
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spring gifts
March 09, 2025 - The vernal or spring equinox arrives on 20 March this year, but meteorological spring arrived officially on the 1st of M...
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thinking white
February 16, 2025 - A long-time friend and professor for whom I worked at the University of New Mexico (do not ask how long ago that was) em...
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new year, new hope
December 30, 2024 - Wednesday is the beginning of a new year, 2025 to be exact. Cultures around the globe celebrate the new year in many way...
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fuchsia faces for any season
November 10, 2024 - Frequently, when a photographer ventures forth into the world, whether near or far, surprises await. They could be part...
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revelatory rain
September 16, 2024 - The rain fell gently during the night, leaving behind evocative water droplets, revealing easily missed details in the n...
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mallow family, otra vez
July 08, 2024 - Several blogs ago, I indicated that there would probably be more hollyhock photographs featured. Since the flowers are "...
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oddities
July 01, 2024 - The unusual, the slightly weird, or odd attracted my camera this week. Matter of fact, I had intended the entire blog to...
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Las Varas de San José
June 17, 2024 - Life long learning, in its most simple form, can be achieved by watching, regardless of where you are. A week without it...
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He called me a "penstemaniac"
June 02, 2024 - Years ago, when Santa Fe Greenhouses had a thriving business on Siler Road, where gardeners from around the state would...
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evolving spring yellow
May 19, 2024 - It has been a banner year, despite less than normal moisture, for all blooming things. So after a brief period of photog...
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spurred on
May 05, 2024 - "The genus name Aquilegia comes from the Latin "Aquila" or "eagle"; this is in obvious reference to the spurred, "hook"...
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more spring abundance
April 28, 2024 - Despite the temperature roller coaster ride in northern New Mexico this week, nature continues to surprise and amaze. Ne...
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an abundance of spring
April 21, 2024 - Many mornings last week, before the wind began its daily grind, I stood beneath ornamental apple, pear, plum, and peach...
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little things
April 08, 2024 - Spring in New Mexico is unfurling at a faster pace each day. The recent frost in parts of northern New Mexico was not de...
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of blossoms and bees
March 24, 2024 - Taking a break from rendering the photographs I had shot of the first daffodil of the season, I walked to the window and...
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a bit of the green
March 17, 2024 - Given that St. Patrick's Day celebrations have been going on all weekend, Major League Baseball games begin mid-week in...
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a week of love
February 12, 2024 - If one starts a week with Sunday, this week has something for everyone to love. For American football and sports fans (n...
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aged roses and new snow
January 15, 2024 - We have been lucky this week. Snow has fallen during the night and throughout the day on several occasions. Almost any l...
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The New Year
December 31, 2023 - The New York Times online had a wonderful feature yesterday titled "Your Best Advice for 2023". Many of us make lists -...
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Christmas 2023
December 25, 2023 - A bright blue sky is greeting us this Christmas morning, as crows and ravens circle the sky to the accompaniment of "The...
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the mad curator strikes again
October 29, 2023 - Given the events of the past couple of weeks in the Middle East and the United States, and in political arenas here and...
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the power of nature
July 24, 2023 - Nature is part of us and we are part of nature. Sometimes we notice it more than others, especially when nature reflects...
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following the blooms
July 09, 2023 - Since I have been immersed during the last month in flower photography, specifically photographing peonies, it seemed ap...
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time sensitive
July 03, 2023 - There are many eminently photographable things that are more or less static - mountains, meadows, trees, buildings, scul...
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paper or poppy
June 11, 2023 - At the risk of becoming known exclusively as a flower/plant/garden photographer, which is not the case, I, nonetheless,...
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equal time
June 04, 2023 - On 14 March 1927, House Bill # 371 officially declared the yucca (Yucca glauca) the New Mexico state flower. I am the fi...
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inside, out, and all around
May 21, 2023 - In between the most delicious and welcome rain showers this week, my camera and I were photographing numerous columbines...
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market bubble
April 30, 2023 - I heard a story some time ago about a stock market bubble in the 1600s (1636-1637) is the date given by multiple sources...
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a blog full of buds
April 23, 2023 - The buds are everywhere and in abundance. It is spring, which in New Mexico also means that either the wind or a late fr...
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all in the cup
April 16, 2023 - Spring really burst forth in this part of the Southwest last week, and with it, many more blooms of assorted types. So i...
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a nod to spring
April 09, 2023 - After fits and starts from nature, we are having some true spring days in the southern Rocky Mountains. To celebrate, to...
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splash of spring
March 05, 2023 - Since the 1st of March is the beginning of meteorological spring, and since we saw two honeybees yesterday despite patch...
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new year, new lens
January 01, 2023 - It is a new year. And this first blog features my recent practice with a new lens, the Fujinon aspherical lens, 30 mm ma...
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the power of art
August 15, 2022 - The third Monday in August. A time when many students are headed back to school while some in the northern hemisphere ar...
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raindrop joy
June 26, 2022 - It has been a miraculously rainy week in northern New Mexico, which, for the most part, has helped firefighters working...
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made in the shade
June 19, 2022 - As everyone in the Southwest knows and appreciates, the shade of a big tree, even a healthy yucca, calms the eyes and ke...
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crenation
June 05, 2022 - It was some years, probably decades ago (and I have no idea how long), that I first heard or read the word crenulation,...
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garden dancers
May 08, 2022 - I look at Columbine flowers and they make me smile. They are like little dancers in the garden, poised for anything, inc...
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and so it begins
April 03, 2022 - Suddenly, it is April, and seemingly, just as suddenly, many things have evolved from sticks to green or colorful buds a...
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on the rocks
March 28, 2022 - The days of "near spring" weather continue here in the southern Rocky Mountains. Last week, a wet, soaking snow fell, pr...
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roses for all
February 14, 2022 - 14 February 2022. Despite the continuing pandemic, the climate changing seemingly by the minute, and multiple possibilit...
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sky watch
January 30, 2022 - Today is the last blog of January 2022, demonstrating, once again, how days and weeks and months seem to be compressing,...
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color in winter
January 10, 2022 - There are places in the world, even in the northern hemisphere, where color doesn't wain during the winter months. Many...
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taking stock
December 26, 2021 - For most of us, 2021 was a year we anticipated with some measure of both dread and hope, leaving us at times feeling lik...
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comfort
November 28, 2021 - The weekly exercise of photography, for me, contains bits and pieces of what I do, see, or reproduce for publication in...
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curating color
September 19, 2021 - Several of you commented last week that in addition to the black and white photographs I curated for a photo competition...
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back to school
August 22, 2021 - Since many children have returned and others are headed back to school in the coming weeks, I figured it was a good time...
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a study in fuchsia, coral, lavender, and pink
August 16, 2021 - Given the increased chaos of the news this week, including images from the Kabul, Afghanistan airport of people hanging...
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grateful and humble
August 09, 2021 - The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, released a sobering report today on climate chang...
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celebrations abound
July 12, 2021 - Now that most countries around the globe have at least partially opened following what hopefully was the worst of the pa...
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an eruption of color
June 07, 2021 - A visitor to the western United States, viewing the low and high desert regions, might see a rose bush and think of it a...
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what you know and perhaps what you do not
April 18, 2021 - I don't know the person who originally said that writers should write about what they know. But many have said it and ev...
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sun, shade, and in-between
April 04, 2021 - It is spring. As I write, the temperature is 79 degrees, and the thermometer is eeking its way to 80. Either temperature...
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roses and then some
March 29, 2021 - Once again this week, wonderful gifted roses provided the material for today's blog. Over three days, I let my eyes, the...
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they keep on giving
March 14, 2021 - Orchids are amazing flowers. While growing up in New Mexico, it was rare to see an orchid, except upon occasion in a nur...
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it had to be snow
February 21, 2021 - Much of northern and other parts of New Mexico received its deepest snowfall of the season this week, welcomed by almost...
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rhythm section returns
February 08, 2021 - Even if it is interrupted or takes on subtle or huge differences, the rhythm of life goes on for humans and other animal...
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fading to fall
September 21, 2020 - Despite day time temperatures in the high 70 to low 80 degree range in the southern Rocky Mountains, there are fewer hou...
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what do you do?
September 14, 2020 - I have asked myself so many times this week "What can I do" and "what should I do" in reference to the climate crisis ev...
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gift of roses
August 31, 2020 - For this photographer, gifts are wonderful for two different reasons. The first is the experience of pleasure, beauty, a...
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old and new
July 27, 2020 - Before Fred and I ventured into the high piñon, juniper and sagebrush mesa of Taos County, we lived for twenty years in...
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different strokes
June 29, 2020 - Walking around with camera in hand, I found myself seeing the play of light and shadows on stucco walls. Just as adobler...
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sweet, lovely, and short
June 22, 2020 - Father's Day and the summer solstice punctuated the weekend, amidst the pandemic and political crises. The world turns,...
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this, that, and the other
June 15, 2020 - Especially during a year when many people around the world have had their work schedules and home lives altered by COVID...
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counterpoint
June 08, 2020 - As part of nature, human beings frequently have their own ways of being heard. We all saw peaceful protests with incredi...
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flax not phlox
May 18, 2020 - As I continue to follow the seasons on the mesa, it would be remiss of me not to photograph and highlight the wild blue...
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back to blooms
May 11, 2020 - You have noticed by now that my blogs for the last couple of months have featured subjects I find around our place. Like...
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phollowing the phlox
April 26, 2020 - One of the joys of spring is looking for and finding plants in bloom on the mesa. The 7,700+ foot altitude and limited m...
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ground work
April 20, 2020 - There are flowers of spring I await with great anticipation, because they are the sure signs of the season. And as if a...
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life in an altered state
April 06, 2020 - Truckers still make their daily runs of hay in the early morning hours from the San Luis Valley in Colorado into New Mex...
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life and love in the time of corona
March 16, 2020 - To say that uncertainty, dread, and nervousness were the order of the day around the world this week, courtesy of the co...
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the color of hope
March 09, 2020 - "Italy starts week with north in virus lockdown", "Actor Max Von Sydow dies at 90", "U. S. trading halted as shares plun...
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the week of love
February 10, 2020 - Love is the subject of more writing, musings, and discussion than almost anything except war. With Valentine's Day being...
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backdrop by nature
January 26, 2020 - This planet of ours is extraordinary, and the nature of it literally never ceases to amaze me. If I am paying attention...
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January gifts
January 19, 2020 - Gifts come from nature and people, and in many sizes and shapes. In much of New Mexico and the southwestern United State...
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new year botanicals
January 06, 2020 - It is hard to think of a better way to begin a photographic year than with "in-your-face" red of amaryllis blossoms. The...
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seeing a little red for the holidays
December 09, 2019 - Nothing like snow on the land to bring out the desire for bright, primary colors. Red brightens everything and so I vent...
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shapes and colors
September 30, 2019 - Although it feels as if the harvest season has just begun, in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, the harvest has...
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in your face gold
August 05, 2019 - August is a great month in the southern Rocky Mountains. The monsoons rains have arrived to moisturize the landscape, an...
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it's all about the wings
July 26, 2019 - Given the fact that the first men landed on the moon on 20 July of 1969 as part of the Apollo 11 mission, I thought flig...
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gifts of elevation
July 20, 2019 - This blog finds life in the northern hemisphere just a month beyond the summer solstice, and adjustments are being made...
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anniversary month
July 07, 2019 - During July of 2010, I began putting together a blog on blogspot.com., as recommended to me by several photographers and...
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the process
July 01, 2019 - During a most delightful brunch this week with friends, they asked how I come up with a blog every Monday. That was, ind...
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minor obsession
June 15, 2019 - When nature provides ample moisture in the western United States and the Rocky Mountain region, I admit I become obsesse...
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in every position
June 03, 2019 - Spring is stubbornly giving way to summer in northern New Mexico, and every day, the landscapes shares it surprises. Des...
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from outer space?
May 12, 2019 - Although there may have been more writers of science fiction who are not known to us, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenste...
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hidden in plain sight
May 06, 2019 - By now, many of you have seen unbelievably beautiful photographs of the desert "bloom" this year in Arizona and Californ...
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emergence
March 18, 2019 - The vernal equinox is this Wednesday, 20 March, and on the same day, there will be a full moon. It is a time of renewal...
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radiant
March 11, 2019 - Red, orange, flame, yellow, and shades within the spectrum are colors I think of as being "warm". But I recently purchas...
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jewels in the fog
March 04, 2019 - After a rather interesting week, comprised of snow, mud, wind, sunshine, and fog, I am reminded of several photo shoots...
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that feeling
February 11, 2019 - Thursday is Valentine's Day. Need I say more? It terrifies many because of societal expectations, and fills others with...
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kissed by snow
October 15, 2018 - It is said that the first snow in northern New Mexico usually happens on Halloween. The snow was a bit early this year,...
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flower girl
August 20, 2018 - Of all the weddings I have photographed to date, a majority of them took place in August. It is a fine month to marry, a...
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visual coolness
July 21, 2018 - Although it is winter in the southern hemisphere, parts of the northern hemisphere are experiencing extreme heat. It is,...
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survivors
July 15, 2018 - Extremely uplifting news came out of Thailand this week when all 12 young members of a football team and their coach wer...
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the cooling touch
June 24, 2018 - Summer arrived officially in the northern hemisphere on the 20th. With the humidity shifting between 3 and 10%, the wind...
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normal?
June 17, 2018 - My desk companion - the Concise Oxford English Dictionary - indicates the meaning of "normal" as "conforming to a standa...
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for each
May 28, 2018 - It is Memorial Day. Throughout the weekend, a steady stream of motorcycles, trucks, campers, boats and assorted vehicles...
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ode to the common
May 07, 2018 - On this spring morning in the northern hemisphere, one thing is certain: somewhere, probably everywhere there isn't snow...
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petal pusher
March 25, 2018 - As far as I am concerned, there is nothing like a gift of flowers to get the creative juices flowing. They also make me...
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the two springs
March 05, 2018 - Because I tend to think that spring arrives on the vernal or spring equinox, I did not give much thought to the 1st of M...
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back to my photographic roots
November 19, 2017 - During the past month, I have been putting together images for sets of prints and cards. One of the sets will be black a...
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a week in the life
August 06, 2017 - When I am not doing environmental portraiture or weddings, a typical photography week includes a number of different pho...
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fine stemware
July 16, 2017 - Human beings create any number of both artful and utilitarian objects using nature as a guide. Frequently, what some mig...
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backdrops and depth of field
July 09, 2017 - I have been thinking about portraiture and commercial art lately, and how the backdrop for a portrait can either complim...
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patience
July 02, 2017 - At almost any time or for any reason - large or small - patience in a human being can vary wildly. For photographers, pa...
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Broadway on the mesa
June 19, 2017 - Another show opened on the mesa today. This time, it was the hedgehog cactus, and I must say, costume designers for Broa...
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outside the box
June 12, 2017 - There are days when I feel like the Julia Child of photography - happily experimenting, adding and changing ingredients,...
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timing is everything
June 04, 2017 - On our planet, terrestrials - animals and plants alike - are controlled by the passing of time. Day into night, night in...
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remembering
May 29, 2017 - Today is Memorial Day, a day set aside for remembering those who died while serving in the country's armed forces. Altho...
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garden variety
May 15, 2017 - Looking back at my blogs this year, I realize there has been a preponderance of them featuring flowers of assorted varie...
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little surprises
April 17, 2017 - While California and Arizona are having epic wildflower blooms in all their eye-popping array of color, spring has a muc...
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Gifts - chocolate and flowers
April 02, 2017 - Again, I ask your indulgence this spring season, as I follow my photographic obsession with flowers and food. In this ca...
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welcoming spring
March 20, 2017 - Today is the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere. The beginning of spring. Some of you are still dealing with moun...
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ode to the season of blooms
November 07, 2016 - Other than the seemingly endless political marathon, the one piece of news that effects most Americans at this time of y...
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late summer tidbits
September 18, 2016 - With a low temperature of 36 degrees fahrenheit this morning, September 18, skim ice sat on the water in one of the bird...
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Sunflowers
August 15, 2016 - Just as sure as the sun rises and sets, August ushers in the season of sunflowers. They line the roadways with New Mexic...
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peripatetic
July 25, 2016 - Photographers, by nature, are peripatetic. Although the word is often used to describe teachers and professors walking b...
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the mother lode...
June 12, 2016 - ...of wild iris, that is.
I never know when we drive west on Highway 64 between Tres Piedras and Tierra Amarilla at thi...
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fade to black
June 06, 2016 - The expression "fade to black" has been in English usage for at least a century. The heavy metal band Metallica used it...
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in northwest gardens
May 02, 2016 - At this time of year in the Pacific Northwest, as well as coastal California and Oregon, so many flowers, shrubs, and tr...
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inkling of spring
March 07, 2016 - The vernal equinox is more than two weeks away, and yet, in many parts of the country, spring has definitely arrived. Su...
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Color it Red, second installment
December 12, 2015 - In last week's blog, I presented some of the images I plan to enter in the Red Dog News Color It Red photography contest...
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a broader view
July 19, 2015 - You have read several times in this blog that Highway 64 between Tres Piedras and Tierra Amarilla bisects some of the mo...
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variations on a theme of gaillardia
July 13, 2015 - It is high summer. Paintbrush and cacti are giving way to light purple penstemon, along with numerous yellow and white c...
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the winner is...
June 15, 2015 - When rain falls on the mesa, magic happens. Even the sagebrush comes alive, showing a brightness and depth of color that...
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inside out
May 18, 2015 - As humans, our eyes bring settings into stereo view, which enables us to see broad vistas and take in the "big picture"...
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serenity
April 19, 2015 - Wind is one of those forces of nature that effects almost everything and everyone. It churns the water in lakes, refresh...
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splash of color
April 13, 2015 - Although Española, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and points south have already seen fruit and nut trees blossom, and other bulb...
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