Lots of moisture and rain this week and interesting cumulus clouds building in the mornings.






Lots of moisture and rain this week and interesting cumulus clouds building in the mornings.






Irises are in full bloom as well as the wildflowers in the greenbelt.












Today at around 2 p.m.; Ragi – my brewing partner and friend for over 35 years (seen here wearing a really ugly shirt and complaining about something) was wheeled into an operating room and got himself a new pair of lungs. He has a long road of recovery but the operation went without a hitch. Now we wait to see if the lungs will cooperate. I’m amazed at the strides medicine has made but also at the courage that he and his family have shown during all of this. Tonight I’m drinking a good IPA and toasting my buddy.
Thanks to a wet weather pattern, the clouds have been very “saucy” (a term used by a USFS weatherman during last year’s fire). Haven’t had time to post, so here is a mega time lapse, super duper, loooooong post. The first time lapse shows the backwards and forwards clouds racing over the mountains. And that for me is a joy to film!


A collection of clouds, virga, sunsets, the moon and a few time lapses (the bottom one looks like a forest fire, ulp).







The hummingbirds are starting to appear while the jays are less abundant. And Marley is sleepy, very, very sleeeeeeepy.








I traveled up to the Pecos River to see how it was running after this year’s ample snowfall. It was fast and high but not flooding like other rivers in Northern New Mexico have been. Along the way, I stopped at the little church near Apache Canyon as well as one of the sections of the Civil War Battle of Glorieta.








