








I’m staying out of the wind this morning for COPD’s sake but it’s fun to watch through my window.


iPhone view from Placitas northeast toward Santa Fe, looking over the Cuchilla de San Francisco, opposite sunset, May 16, 2024.

Sunset, May 16, west view toward Cabezon with iPhone.


iPhone views north from Placitas, May 10. I could not see the colors with my own eyes but, as the experts advised, the iPhone lense could.

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 new Interior Department order barring mineral development on 4,000-some acres of Placitas-area BLM land, including 195 acres just south of my window, where Cowboy2 and I walked yesterday and probably will again today.

Cowboy2, moonset, 6 am.

A little walking rain, aka virga, over the upper middle Rio Grande. The river looks full from releases upstream.