My favorite fingernail moon (waxing crescent, 2 days old) setting with earthshine, with Jupiter to it’s 11 o’clock (at 7 degrees) and Venus (in a waxing gibbous phase itself) almost directly above it about 15 degrees. Above Venus is [...]
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It is a gorgeous day with poofy little [...] The wildflower season started early this year because of all the rain we’ve gotten this spring. It was a lot of early rain and the grass got pretty tall before the wildflowers came out. While it might not be a perfect wildflower year, it’s still starting out extremely impressively and I anticipate it’s going to be [...] Driving down from Cortez and through the Navajo reservation (which seemed barren, but had it’s own stark beauty), we got into Farmington well before sunset, met with the manager of Kokopelli’s Cave and drove up this dirt road on top of a mesa to get to the cave. It was a (short) hike down the side [...] We arrived without incident on a Thursday morning and got a whole row to ourselves even though the flight was full. I upgraded to a 4wd Jeep Patriot since I knew it was going to be snowy in the mountains (probably one of the smartest things I did) and we took off for Santa Fe. A [...] I’m furiously sifting through over 2000 pictures that I took on our trip to New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and a tiny bit of Utah. It was a fantasticlly perfect trip, everything I could have wanted it to be! Here’s a good one from one of the Inns at which we [...] A little closer, and a little more spectacular [...] This tree is falling apart, every time I drive past it, it’s lost more branches. But even in it’s falling down, it is still absolutely perfect to me and I am so in love with [...] We’ve had some rather moist mornings lately. The other morning I was up and milking early in the fog, and on my way to class I pulled over and snapped this shot with my iPhone of a neighbor’s field in the [...] I’ve heard so many things about West Texas over the years, opinions seem to vary between indifference to outright vehement bashing, but I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for wide open places and huge skies. I hitched up my britches and Hubsand and I decided to do a mini driving vacation to Marfa, [...] |
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