In northern New Mexico/southern Colorado, the monsoon season which normally commences in July instead started at the end of May... with the result that a normally fairly arid region has been turned very green. The gorge of the Río Grande del Norte between Taos and the Colorado-New Mexico border. Photo: Elijah Rael (June 5, 2023)
[Robert Scott Horton]
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“One thing I’ve learned in the woods is that there is no such thing as random. Everything is steeped in meaning, colored by relationships, one thing with another.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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View from top of mesa looking toward Santa Fe, New Mexico.
March 2023
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Aurora & a crescent moon l Erik Contreras l New Mexico
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The Belt of Venus, aka "the twilight arch", sets a pastel mood over Northern New Mexico on a cold evening. Photo: In Light of Nature Photography (Jan 28, 2023) :: [Scott Horton]
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“He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings. An old Chronicle. To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his return. Eyes closed, arms oaring. Upright to what? Something nameless in the night, lode or matrix. To which he and the stars were common satellite. Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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Ghost Ranch in Northern New Mexico.
February 2023
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