It is one of my favorite places in New Mexico. White Sands National Monument. I was out taking shots of the sunset over the Tularosa Basin and the Jornada del Muerto and the amazing light spreading across the gypsum fields…
These gorgeous little cliff swallows were nesting in the rafters near the Anthropology Museum at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico yesterday. Cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) are a friendly, brave little passeriforme that builds gourd-shaped nests from mud and straw. They tuck them…
~ ~ ~ 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…
An evening rain storm soaks the valleys on the west face of the Columbine Hondo Wilderness Study Area just a few miles northeast of Taos right after sunset. A slew of other shots of the Columbine Hondo can be found…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
"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…
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 -…
