Winter solstice 2022

Winter solstice 2022

Another spin around the sun, and the light returns as promised.

May 2023 be a spectacular year full of joy and satisfaction.

Thanks for sharing the journey with me. xoxo T

Christ in the Desert Monastery, Rio Chama, New Mexico

Doors with opposing handles

 

White Lakes, New Mexico, roadside, bar, ruins, abandoned places, abandoned building

Roadside bar reimagined

 

White Lakes, New Mexico, roadside, bar, ruins, abandoned places, abandoned building, chain gang, standard oil

Standard Oil Products

 

Arizona, Pipeline fire, Flagstaff, wild fire, forest fire

The Pipeline Fire

 

montana, badger

Badgers!

 

Sheep mountain, Montana

Sheep Mountain View

 

thunderstorm, cumulonimbus, shelf cloud, cloudspotters, New Mexico, storm, clouds

Shelf cloud rolls ahead of the rain

 

giraffe, Namibia, Africa, Southern Africa

Oh, yeah, Namibia boys

 

Namibia, Africa, Southern Africa, Sossusvlei, red sand, red dunes, salt flats, salt pans, desert

It’s a long walk

 

New Mexico, aerial photo, airplane, landscape

New Mexico from 12,000 feet

 


New Mexico, ruins, abandoned places, abandoned building

A view of the pond from the house I can’t find again.

Things you find in the desert

Things you find in the desert

The desert always holds the unexpected.

A coal, oil, lumber train lumbering through sage and creosote.

Great blue herons wading through a still Rio Grande channel surrounded by autumn cattails and reflected in rain-muddied water.

A fall watercolor of saltgrass to sage, sage to willow, willow to cottonwood, the details of texture and color fuzzy, delicately bleeding onto the page.

Subtlety is an art form.

Great blue heron, Bosque del Apache, New Mexico, national wildlife refuge, desert oasis, desert

 

Great blue heron, Bosque del Apache, New Mexico, national wildlife refuge, desert oasis, desert, cottonwood, willow, Rio Grande River

Slow assimilation

Slow assimilation

It has been a long slide from Africa to October – at least the length of a giraffe’s neck.

A few photos to stem the tide… I won’t promise soon, but sometime, there will be more for you here.

In the meantime, a little scale…

Africa, Namibia, giraffes, Sossusvlei, red dunes, sand, desert, triangles, patterns

Africa, Namibia, giraffes, Sossusvlei, red dunes, sand, desert, triangles, patterns

Africa, Namibia, giraffes, Sossusvlei, red dunes, sand, desert, triangles, patterns

The Road not Taken Enough