emergence
March 18, 2019
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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 in the northern hemisphere. When it seems that the entirety of living things emerge from their winter stasis. There is noticeably more daylight. Spring bulbs begin to push through the soil. Seasonal birds, including the Say's phoe...
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radiant
March 11, 2019
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Red, orange, flame, yellow, and shades within the spectrum are colors I think of as being "warm". But I recently purchased a fuchsia-colored orchid as a birthday present for a friend that made me realize the color heat in its petals leaned a lot toward the warm. The more I looked at and photographed this moth orchid (Phalaenopsis orchid), the more...
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jewels in the fog
March 04, 2019
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After a rather interesting week, comprised of snow, mud, wind, sunshine, and fog, I am reminded of several photo shoots from years past at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. It is one of those places that grabs you and won't let go, a little like parts of New Mexico. Whether you call it a cape or a peninsula, Point Reyes juts out into the...
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get my drift?
February 22, 2019
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After reading comments on Facebook last week, (probably from non-skiers and non-snow boarders or those lacking enthusiasm for winter), expressing readiness for spring by writing "enough already", I said to myself I would not do any more blogs featuring snow and other winter subjects this season. So much for that. After the last substantial snow we...
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the wonder of stairs
February 18, 2019
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After reading one of my recent blogs, my photographer friend, Steve Immel asked about the process used in developing them. How I come up with blog ideas and how I proceeded to put them together. This week's blog would fall into the category of odd inspiration, developing into an architectural travelog. It came to me after watching one of those inan...
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that feeling
February 11, 2019
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Thursday is Valentine's Day. Need I say more? It terrifies many because of societal expectations, and fills others with the joy of giving and receiving. Although Valentine's Day is celebrated on July 6 and 30th in Eastern Orthodox churches, February 14 has become the official date for many celebrations around the world. The theme of the day - love...
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photographic pilgrimage
February 03, 2019
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February began on Friday, and, with great joy, my husband said, "It is nice to be looking at January from the rear view mirror." In other words, there is something about coming out of one of the coldest months in the northern hemisphere, to a month that has the potential to be slightly warmer. The days are also becoming noticeably longer. Mentally,...
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a small study in brown
January 28, 2019
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In the 2016 publication The Secret Lives of Color, Kassia St. Clair indicates that "Brown suffers in part because it is not a hue, but a shade. It is not found in a rainbow or on a simple color wheel; making it requires darkening and graying down yellows, oranges, some impure reds or mixing together the three artists' primaries-red, yellow, and blu...
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snow angels
January 21, 2019
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One of the great things about publishing a weekly blog is the commentary one receives from readers. Several people mentioned that it was likely I was never in Fargo because winter there is much more beastly than it is in New Mexico. This is very true. Never been there. Only seen the Cohen Brothers movie of that title. Many of the "snow" exteriors w...
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Fargo in New Mexico?????
January 14, 2019
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During a stretch of leaden skies and snow that makes it necessary to dress like the young boy from The Christmas Story, I begin to think we are living in Fargo, North Dakota rather than New Mexico. The weather really is changing, making me yearn for the time when a storm from the west coast of the United States would flow over New Mexico, drop its...
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Happy Birthday, New Mexico!
January 07, 2019
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On January 6, 1912, the territory of New Mexico officially became the 47th state of the United States of America. In celebrating the 107th birthday of the state, which, quite bizarrely, many people still do not know is actually a state, I put together some new and also iconic images of the Land of Enchantment.
In the early 1980s, I worked at the S...
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a new year
December 31, 2018
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Just as we were gifted an extended and lovely autumn, winter has come with intensity, making its presence known in our high mesa country lives following the solstice. As I sit across from the computer screen, typing, another wave of moisture is entering the state. Here are some surprises nature left this week.
The frost Saturday morning was applie...
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ice in the abstract
December 24, 2018
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It is Christmas Eve. After wonderful celebrations with friends this week and weekend, things are moving at a very civilized pace this morning. Nowhere to go except by foot, sun shining through the windows, wash churning in the machine in preparation for a string of snowy, less than sun-filled days.
The stock tank continues to offer amazing ice des...
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solstice clock
December 16, 2018
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The Concise Oxford English Dictionary helped me with today's blog. The definition of solstice is "each of the two times in the year, respectively at midsummer and midwinter, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days." We, in the northern hemisphere, will experience that shortest day...
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celebrations
December 10, 2018
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Sunday was a gorgeous day on the mesa, and we celebrated Ingrid and Fred's birthdays with comfort food, lively conversation, and a nice walk on the nearly muddy road. The type of day that reminds us how lucky we are to have full bellies and souls, and amply satisfying work. So this morning, I thought I would continue the theme of cool weather and w...
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