Starting June 24. We have not reached the arroyo-running part of the season yet but will update. Also, couldn’t capture lightning in this sequence without getting too far out in it but will keep trying. Not everyone is happy about all this but at least I’ve gotten him out of the bathtub and into the …

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June sundown, smoke and all

June 20, 2025

The smoke is maybe from the Trout and Buck fires in southwest New Mexico. In this case, it filters the sun’s ray for my iPhone. This view is near the confluence of Orno and lower Las Huertas creeks, both dry, looking across the Rio Grande, past Santa Ana Mesa, to Cabezon and the Rio Puerco country.

Another gusty morning in spring: Reading the New York Times on an IPad and bird watching through the window. Little snow left on the mountain, no superbloom on the hills. Jerry Seinfeld, confronted with the Israel-Hamas war, the Times says, “can no longer be about nothing.” On Monday, neighbors and pueblo leaders will celebrate a …

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