The kids and I were out in a foot of fresh powdery snow most of yesterday. We were up in the Arroyo Hondo valley north of Taos New Mexico on the north edge of the Colombine-Hondo Wilderness Study Area. We built…
Its cloudy and -7 Celcius here in Taos, New Mexico as I write this with five inches of fresh snow on the ground. Snow in Taos is most welcome. Over the past few months we've hardly seen a cloud. Skin…
Every winter, just a week or two before the solstice Taos, New Mexico hosts one of the most entertaining and beautiful holiday-season events around: The Lighting of LeDoux. It all started in the way-back before the Spaniards ever set foot…
This is the place to spend your Saturday morning in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My friend Maria Elena and I took the five minute stroll over to the Santa Fe Farmers Market at the the re-furbished rail yard area from where we…
There is nothing better than a good mystery. Many times, a mystery reaffirms faith in a larger power. But, what happens when there is no actual mystery? The author Willa Cather based her masterpiece Death Comes for the Archbishop on…
Last Saturday was a blustery one and we set off in the hot-air balloon hoping to drop down into the Rio Grande Gorge near John Dunn Bridge. Instead, we set off to the north on a bit of a…
Well, OK. There was nothing "hot" about this roof. Nor "tin". In fact, yesterday evening was a chilly (but not cold), shingle-covered garage roof in a Pueblo, Colorado backyard - a roof my brother and I frequented as kids. I…
There was never a time I didn't know this mountain. From the house I grew up in, you could walk down the driveway to the street, turn left, walk less than 30 yards and look right - and there is…
North Crestone Colorado October on the North Crestone creek route in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness of Colorado. ...the Sangre de Cristo mountains are fault-block mountains and are no less grand. Sharply uplifted blocks and high pointed pinnacles characterize the…
I met this beautiful Peregrine Falcon at an event hosted by the Peregrine Fund, an incredibly successful organization that works to protect raptors from extinction. They have been instrumental in bringing the gorgeous Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) back from the…
Fall colors 2012....here they come! Expect alot more of these types of shots over the coming weeks as we slide further from summer. I may suffer my way through winter but I'm infatuated with the cool air and bright colors…
The railroads running out of the southern states didn’t much appreciate the American Locomotive Company naming their 4-8-4 steam engine the “Northern”. The C&O happily re-named them “Greenbriers” instead. The Nashville, Chattanooga & St.Louis named them "Dixies". Why the…