evolving spring yellow
May 19, 2024
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It has been a banner year, despite less than normal moisture, for all blooming things. So after a brief period of photographing, documenting, and delivering Fred's Navajo-Churro wool items to both Tierra Wools in Chama and to Centinela near Chimayo, I returned to photographing new flowers. Yellow is the color of the week in this photographer's gard...
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woven into a day
May 12, 2024
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When I awoke this morning, something was missing. For the first time in two weeks, not one leaf on the aspen trees outside our bedroom window was moving. The wind has been so consistent that the quiet - just for a moment - was odd. But what a welcome change! We managed to walk every day except one, and when we saw people on the street in the area,...
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spurred on
May 05, 2024
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"The genus name Aquilegia comes from the Latin "Aquila" or "eagle"; this is in obvious reference to the spurred, "hook" shapes within the blooms, that many gardeners say resemble an eagle's talons." I have to ponder that one, from the good folks at Wikipedia. But the spurs of all columbine flowers are definitely distinctive, and make identifying th...
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more spring abundance
April 28, 2024
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Despite the temperature roller coaster ride in northern New Mexico this week, nature continues to surprise and amaze. Nearly everyone I see while walking comments about how beautiful the trees and flowers look this year, some giving advice on where to look for particularly outstanding blooms. It had to be, then, that at least one more blog would fe...
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an abundance of spring
April 21, 2024
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Many mornings last week, before the wind began its daily grind, I stood beneath ornamental apple, pear, plum, and peach trees, staring in awe at their blossoms, and inhaling one of the finest fragrances nature has to offer. The hum of hundreds of bees made it absolutely mesmerizing. It was as if I had been transported to an extraordinary place. Nee...
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deadlines and arrivals
April 14, 2024
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In the United States, 15 April is traditionally the deadline for submitting one's income tax forms/payments to the government. Oddly enough, it also has become the near-official arrival date of hummingbirds in northern New Mexico. And while living in Taos County, we began looking for these amazing creatures at the beginning of April, hanging a feed...
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little things
April 08, 2024
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Spring in New Mexico is unfurling at a faster pace each day. The recent frost in parts of northern New Mexico was not deep enough to damage too much in the way of flowering tree blossoms, thankfully and ironically, due to the spring winds. Anything that could take flight this week did, including a piece of pink day-glow plastic tape that may be a p...
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product photography challenge
March 31, 2024
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Happy April Fool's Day!
This week's blog began because I needed a watch. I have always loved watches and when Fred suggested he buy me a watch for my birthday, I hemmed and hawed for a minute or two and went to the computer to search for watches made in America by American small businesses. There were more small businesses than I expected and an a...
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of blossoms and bees
March 24, 2024
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Taking a break from rendering the photographs I had shot of the first daffodil of the season, I walked to the window and, to my surprise, noticed that several apricot trees were in bloom. It seemed a little early, and although there were flowering fruit trees in bloom at the Santa Fe Railyard Park, I had not seen any in the neighborhood. That excit...
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a bit of the green
March 17, 2024
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Given that St. Patrick's Day celebrations have been going on all weekend, Major League Baseball games begin mid-week in Seoul, South Korea, spring breakers are headed in hordes to warmer and greener parts of the country, and the vernal or spring equinox is Tuesday, 19 March this year, it only seemed appropriate to show some green in this week's blo...
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signs of spring
March 11, 2024
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Signs of spring are everywhere in this second week of March. The amount of daylight is becoming longer at an ever increasing rate as the Vernal Equinox - this year on 19 March - approaches. Although there are no flowers in evidence just yet, in the early morning hours, a trip out the door ushers in a chorus of glorious noise from the bushes and tre...
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walls talking
March 03, 2024
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Since the beginning of our existence on Planet Earth, humans have sought and developed the shelter they needed to stay alive and store necessities for that same purpose. The structures vary in construction, but most have one thing in common - walls. Whether they are solid or flexible, walls provide safety from the elements and predators. When Homo...
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new reflecting old
February 26, 2024
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Since the first railroad train pulled into the city of Santa Fe in February of 1880, change and development and how to deal with them have been major issues for the City Different. They are for any city. But because Santa Fe was originally built and connected by wagon and burro trails, fairly narrow in scope, winding down to the river and up into t...
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turn, turn, turn
February 19, 2024
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As I long as I can remember, the month of February always offered a spring thaw, sometimes brief, sometimes a week or two, but it happened without fail. The trend proved true regardless of where we lived in New Mexico - in the western, northern or central part of the state - and it was always a treat. Then March arrives, dashing hopes of an early s...
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a week of love
February 12, 2024
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If one starts a week with Sunday, this week has something for everyone to love. For American football and sports fans (not to mention gamblers), the Superbowl was the biggest event all year. For those who like a grand party, Mardi Gras and Carnival are in full swing, culminating on Fat Tuesday. And Wednesday is for lovers - Valentine's Day. What be...
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