Catching up

I knew it had been a while since I updated this blog, I didn't realize that it has been six months.  I’m sure I have lost a lot of readers, if I ever had that many.

To start off I’m including images from one of the few winter storms that passed through Albuquerque this year.

New Year 2014 Hike

Pecos Wilderness

January 1, 2014

We had to get out of our respective houses this day!  Neither Byron nor I are big college football fans so we threw out the prospective date of January 1 for a hiking/photo and or fishing day.  We did both, Byron fishing with his new fly fishing rod and I did the photography.

El Malpais part 3

December 28, 2013

La Ventana Arch

We went farther south from the Sandstone Bluff to see what else there is to see.  It was a cold and windy day with temperatures around freezing at 9AM and a strong wind making it even colder.

El Malpais part 2

December 28, 2013

Sandstone Bluffs part 2

This was my return trip to the El Malpais, the first part was posted Jan 5.

El Malpais hike

November 29, 2013

Mt. Taylor in the background

This is how I spent my Black Friday.  No shopping, elbowing, running over other shoppers when the store doors open for me.  El Malpais National Conservation Area is about an hour west of Albuquerque and just east of Grants, NM within 20 miles of the exit from Interstate 40.

Fall-inter

October 17, 2013

Due to the federal government doing federal government things I got to have the day off from work.  I am not complaining about the day off, I’m complaining about the f government.  I’ve been working the whole time so I am better off than a lot of people.  That morning I kept going back and forth ‘To hike’ or ‘Not to hike’.  I was leaning ‘Not to hike’ but at the last minute decided to go....

Rio San Antonio (part 3 of 3) the golden hour

Sept 28, 2013

Usually we start out early in the morning, 700, making it to our destination around 830 and hike from there.  Since we scouted out a couple other locations and made a number of photographic stops on the way up so our hiking schedule moved to later in the day.  It actually made for better photography at the end of the day considering we were still on the road as the sun was starting to set…

Rio San Antonio (part 2 of 3) Flora

Sept 28, 2013

 

This time we took the time to stop and photograph the flora.  I always bring my macro lens with me but I am usually having such a good time photographing the big picture I forget to look at the details...

Rio San Antonio (part 1 of 3)

Sept 28, 2013

We went back to a river (stream) hike this time.  The Rio San Antonio (RSA) goes through the Valles Caldera and emerges into the Santa Fe National Forest at the west boundary of the Valles Caldera.  We drove up through the Santa Fe National Forest and found a spot where we could hike down to the river…

Hamilton Mesa

Sept. 14, 2013

Out of a list of several hikes we have on our to-do list we decided on the Hamilton Mesa in the southern part of the Pecos Wilderness.  This is a different type of hike from what Byron and I have been doing lately.  As you may remember he pretty much lives to fly-fish and we usually hike along a stream of some type where Byron fishes and I photograph.  We are both happy.  As you may surmise from the title we are not hiking at the bottom of a canyon, instead we are on the top of a mesa…