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Between storms

JR

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February 25, 2023

And I have retired from the water board, mostly tired of my own impatience.

Categories: birds, Cowboy, critters, high desert, Placitas, seasons, snow•Tags: February, water board•

Bernalillo sightings

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November 18, 2022

Playing it safe at Walgreens. Treatment options at Walgreens. Belshaw (once Arnholz) at Under Charlie’s Covers. Moon over huevos rancheros. Cranes gettin’ their kicks over old 66.

Categories: Bernalillo, New Mexico•Tags: Belshaw, cranes, farolitos, Range•

Walking rain

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August 4, 2022

Why I prefer the Navajo reference walking rain to the Latin word virga. Looking west down the Las Huertas Creek drainage to the Rio Grande and over the great river to the volcanic plug Cabezon, Santa Ana Mesa at the end of the Pajarito Plateau, up the east fork of the Jemez River and to …

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Categories: monsoon, Placitas, rain, storm, seasons, Sunset•Tags: Cabezon, Jemez, Las Huertas, Rio Puerco•

Fire evacuations map, 05/21 morning.

JR

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May 21, 2022

This is likely to change by tonight or overnight but it’s such a great (click here) interactive map I wanted to post it now. Here’s the link to the interactive map again. You can expand or shrink the detail. Plus it shows the two fires within my views, at least smoke plume-wise, in the same …

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Categories: New Mexico, wildfire•Tags: Calf Canyon/Hermit's Peak, Cerro Pelado, wildfire•

Smoke and fire 05.01.22

JR

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May 1, 2022

The Cerro Pelado fire in the Jemez Mountains, photographed from Placitas, spotting east on April 30. The fire started in what pundits called a big “wind event” on April 22 — Earth Day, by the way. It has burned into the 2011 Las Conchas burn scar but still threatens cabin clusters on several sides and …

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Categories: climate, New Mexico, wildfire•Tags: Cerro Pelado fire•

Morning after Earth Day

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April 23, 2022

The black-and-white broadside of a paint horse on a hillside at least a half-mile away drew me out of bed this morning. The news from the Sangre de Cristos and Jemez was not good after Earth Day wind, fire and dust violence, but we seemed to luck out near the Sandia mountain. The Calf Canyon …

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Categories: climate, high desert, mountains, New Mexico, spring, The West, weather, wildfire•

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