Yearly Archives: 2021

Smokey sunset 7_11_21

Smoke from all the fires out West are wrapping around the High pressure and streaming down into New Mexico. Makes for a red sunset, bad air and another all-to-often smokey situation.

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Finch nests and ravens 7_5_21

We have finches nesting in the new portal who now have a nest thanks to Joan’s ingenuity! Later, a trio of raucous ravens stopped by to be filmed (plainly demonstrating my shakiness in wildlife film documentation). They were interested in … Continue reading

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Early July sunsets, clouds and RAIN!

Including a Kelvin-Helmholtz Fluctus cloud (see picture descriptions)!

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Pecos National Historic Park geology walk 7_2_21

Today, I went to one of the many guided walks at one of my favorite spots, the Pecos National Historic Park, the site of the Pecos Pueblo ruins. This tour covered the geology of the area and how that influenced … Continue reading

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Rain and sunset 6_29_21

So while the Pacific Northwest is suffering record heat, we are experiencing cool wet weather. We didn’t get a lot of inches of rain… but it lasted all day. And I think the video shows the atmospheric instability that’s caused … Continue reading

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Sunsets and timelapse 6_21

Some sunsets from the past few evenings. The last video shows a small virga cloudburst. Hopefully this indicates that rain is on its way… soon.

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Santa Fe Fuego baseball 6_19_21

Part of the Pecos League, the Santa Fe Fuego play their home games at the Fort Marcy Ballpark and this evening faced the Tucson Sagueros for a 12 to 11 win. The league is independent of MLB, has been around … Continue reading

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Happy Father’s Day!

Looking at this photo, you can see what kind of outdoorsman Dad was. I mean… who wears patent leather shoes and dress slacks to go fishing? Still, he managed to teach us boys how to fish and judging from this … Continue reading

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Marls 6_15_21

Hanging out while I watch the Giants.

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Cloud and sunset 6_15_21

An odd lone stratocumulus cloud from a previous evening dissipated into a wispy ghost of a cloud. And a nice though narrow sunset from a later evening.

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