Governor's Holiday Market
December 15, 2025
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One would be hard-pressed to know, except for the diminished daylight, that it is December in New Mexico. High temperatures throughout the state ranged from the 50s to the 70s this week (depending on elevation), and here in Santa Fe, there have been a few 60s at the airport reporting station. These conditions are relatively rare. But I do remember...
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the practice of art
December 08, 2025
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More than once in my years of blogging, I have addressed the practice and process of art - how practicing artists and craftspeople work, how they organize their time, among other things, and how they deal with a more or less solitary practice. For some, it is almost meditative, like being cloistered and completely involved in their work. A current...
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into winter
December 01, 2025
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A dusting of snow covers the ground this morning as we move into winter, following the most stunning autumn season on record. Now the chill begins, reminding us of the changing seasons and cycles in nature. We have a bird's eye view to it all from our office window and the loom room, where life and work proceed at pace throughout the year. This wee...
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giving thanks
November 23, 2025
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Two things shaped this week's blog. The first was the Ken Burns/Sarah Borstein/David Schmidt series The American Revolution that premiered this week on public television. To say my knowledge of the war was embarrassingly limited is an understatement. Both my husband and I, having been educated in two completely different school systems, were missin...
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to look AND see
November 17, 2025
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More than a few times in past blogs, I have written about the processes of photography and writing, and the way they work for me. Being involved in several different projects much of the time, there is nothing like a good brisk walk not only to awaken a variety of muscles, but to let everything in one's brain go wild into the autumn air. If someone...
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the eleventh hour of the eleventh day
November 09, 2025
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Celebrating the 40th year of Veterans for Peace, the organization published a special "Reclaim Armistice Day 2025" edition of its online newsletter with the subtitle "Until Never Again Means Never Again for Anyone ". As I have mentioned before, the horrors of war should never be forgotten. A much loftier and less achievable goal would be the comple...
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the sweet yellow of saffron
November 02, 2025
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I have been fortunate throughout the years to have friends and co-workers who, when they find out I have an intense interest in food, indulge me by bringing gifts of ingredients to explore. The delightful little bottle of saffron from Spain was gifted to me possibly as long as three decades ago. Since it has been kept in good environmental conditio...
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No Kings Rally - the costumes
October 26, 2025
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As promised in last week's blog, costumes from the No Kings Rally on 18 October in Santa Fe, are featured in today's posting. The political fashion statements ranged from commercially produced blowups to handmade. Creativity knows no bounds!
Given New Mexico's history with aliens and the Roswell Incident, this metaphorical image of aliens of a dif...
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No Kings Rally
October 19, 2025
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The day in Santa Fe was as perfect as it could have been. An autumn chill to the air but stunningly clear and cloudless blue skies. Judging from the weather radar early in the morning, and post-rally media, the weather was quite decent nation-wide for the No Kings Rally. An estimated 7,000,000 people in the United States attended rallies in over tw...
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the kitchen laboratory
October 13, 2025
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Weather in the southern Rockies this week has been more like that of the Pacific Northwest, with clouds and rain, and high and low temperatures oddly similar. But you won't be hearing any complaints from here. A great majority of time in the Southwest, rain is a welcome commodity. But for some strange reason, rain makes me hungry. It also makes me...
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forest primeval in transition
October 05, 2025
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It was a perfect autumn day, crisp and cool under a deep blue sky, and the leaves on the aspen trees seemed to be turning yellow, gold, orange, and red by the minute. There were many locations in Santa Fe where a person could look to the east and see the palette. And we are not the only ones who knew it because the Aspen Vista Trail parking area wa...
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apple of my eye
September 28, 2025
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A person doesn't need to live in New Mexico long before realizing that when the weather is right, certain kinds of fruit explode in abundance. Last year was the year of the apricot. 2025 seems to be the year apples shine. That means only one thing. I make sure they get their due, photographically speaking, before they are eaten.
With apples,...
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it is that time of year, precisely
September 21, 2025
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I thought at least twice about not taking the sidereal equinox tack in today's blog, because some of the deep science led to my own eye rolling. It is complicated. But if you read this today, 22 September 2025, it is the autumnal or sidereal (pronounced sigh-deer-ree al) equinox. The day of the year when the amount of daylight is reducing at the mo...
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ponder, create, curate, dump and repeat
September 15, 2025
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Under crystal clear skies, with a temperature of 56° outside, autumn in the relative high country of New Mexico is becoming more evident by the day. Soon, leaves will begin to turn shades of yellow, orange, and red, as nature starts to relax. But late summer remains part of the mix for the time being, and I photograph with that in mind. Particularl...
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after the rain
September 07, 2025
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In October of 2011, a group of tango dancers were gathered in a Taos studio for an intensive weekend of instruction. Two instructors from Buenos Aires - Carolina and Donato - were in the middle of an afternoon session when suddenly all of us (numbering twenty of so) rushed to the west windows. I remember the teachers saying "What is happening?" The...
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