Around the World in Eighty Years

~ ~ ~ I know, I know.  I keep coming back to photos from my hot air balloon rides but I just find the landforms fascinating when looked at from the air. Sorry if I’m boring you. As I wrote nearly a year ago: Humans had not, as far as we know, seen the Earth from [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

An evening rain storm soaks the valleys on the west face of the Colombine Hondo Wilderness Study Area just a few miles northeast of Taos right after sunset. A slew of other shots of the Colombine Hondo can be found here. What else is there to say? ##

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

~ ~ ~ Besides the fabulous blue skies, the hummingbirds, and the still very chilly storms, spring in Taos New Mexico is also just fun days racing around the neighborhood with friends, finding flowers in the park and flying our kites. These two shots perfectly captured our Sunday – one of the few where we [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

  Ute Mountain, located on the northern edge of the county of Taos, New Mexico, is perhaps the crown jewel of the new El Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. Ute is a 10,093 foot high volcanic cone rising nearly 3,000 feet above the surrounding plain. Ute is something you can’t miss. Located about ten [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

It doesn’t seem to matter much that many of the habitat maps for the little Ruby throated hummingbird puts Taos well outside of thier range. We’ve had loads of them. The males, like this one above, showed up early and fought amongst themselves for access to the solitary feeder we put out this year. Just [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

Ed Fenzl is a practical man. “I like things that are functional, easy to maintain, going to last at least five to eight years … that’s my only criteria.” The mustached former parks superintendent and landscape contractor credits much of the success of Arroyo Seco’s Living Light Farm to practical experimentation. “A lot of folks [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

Findan was an Irishman from Leinster. The Nordmanni took his sister. Findan’s father gave him a satchel of coins and instructions that he was to go the raiders and bring her back.  Joined by some friends he set out to find the Nordmanni.  Unfortunately, they found him first, slaughtered his companions, clapped him in irons [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

Last night I was going back through all the amazing photographs I took while in India last year and wondering…what should I do with them? This one stood out. At least tonight it did, when I’m having that very strong urge to travel again. I was camped up under a huge mass of reeds just [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

Near the greenhouse, Ty Minton found a big, fat fuzzy caterpillar and he wasn’t sure what, exactly, it was. “I was so excited,” he said. “I ran inside, grabbed the iPad and raced back out here before it was gone. I spent quite awhile poring over pictures online, trying to match it up with the [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

The majestic St. Lawrence River, which borders the southern side of the Canadian province of Quebec, is among the 25 longest rivers in the world, extending across more than 3000 kilometres. Home to fantastic animal species including whales (which can easily be observed in Tadoussac), the St. Lawrence River is also home to multiple islands, [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

Thursday night saw an incredibly dramatic and moody storm move across northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Perfect for storm pictures.  That kind of weather certainly matched the darkness in me that evening. I followed it around for a few hours, driving up through the county to the northern parts trying to capture its cross [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

    I wasn’t terribly impressed with this spring reflection image to be honest. Apparently, others were. I still find it just a bit mediocre….. (I like this one alot better) On Sundays the kids and I always head out into the world looking for some adventure to have.  Sometimes we will venture far afield [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”   ~ Masanobu Fukuoka   The magpies sat in the apple tree that sheltered the corn. They were large and thick and daring. The birds considered us with their ridiculously intelligent eyes. “They were watching like [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

Friday late afternoon saw a series of small but intense little storms rush over the Taos area bringing some stiff winds, a little bit of thunder, some large, spotty and cold rain drops (not much beyond that)  in town – and even some light snow in the mountains southeast of town. I took these shots [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

I’ll get it out of the way up front.  The Boquete Garden Inn is probably THE BEST little inn I’ve stayed at, ever. Understand, of course, that I am a fanatic for birds, gardens and flowers. So walking through the gate from the already near-paradise that is the town of Boquete into some place that [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

Just after dawn these early spring days, the air is perfectly still and the sound of Red-winged black birds fills the air. The snow and ice have melted and ponded and pooled and the calm morning air makes for some great water reflection photography. I shot this in Taos’ Fred Baca Park wetlands soon after [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

  Happy World Water Day!! 2013 was chosen to be the International Water Cooperation year and today, March 22, as International Water Day (or World Water Day). Why do we celebrate World Water Day?  Because water is the most important resource on the planet. Water is not just an environmental issue.  Access to clean water [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

Pretty tiresome tripe.  Crap, really.  Just opening to the first page will pain your sensibilities. Essentially, there exists a group of people with special powers to cross over to other dimensions. Then there are a group of people who are sworn to protect them. Then there are a group of people working to hunt them [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge…the “high bridge”…northwest of Taos, New Mexico from about 1000 feet up in a hot air balloon. The arched Rio Grande Gorge bridge is the 82nd highest bridge in the world and the tenth highest in the USA. It hangs 565 feet (170 meters) above the Rio Grande. The span is [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years

Around the World in Eighty Years

Panama has more species of birds than the United States and Canada combined. I awoke on my first morning in Panama to the sound of all those birds of Panama. I up and stumbled out onto the balcony of my friend Maria Elena overlooking the Bridge of the Americas, grabbed a cup of the most [...]

Around the World in Eighty Years