Evening approaches at Socorro County’s Bosque del Apache. We hurry to the northern end, where the cornfields and shallow wetlands are. Across the field we spot an enormous, restless, white, honking swath. Looking closer, we see it’s a giant gaggle of snow geese, recent arrivals from the north. Overhead, ragged streamers of huge gray sandhill [...]
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Bosque Dusk
Posted in Landscapes, Literary Nature Writing, Natural History, New Mexico, Parks & Monuments, Western Photography, Western Travel Writing, tagged Bosque del Apache, New Mexico autumn, southwestern autumn photography, western birds, wildlife on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wayfarers All
Posted in Literary Nature Writing, Natural History, Western Photography, tagged New Mexico autumn, southwestern autumn photography, western birds, Wind in the Willows on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The Water Rat was restless, and he did not exactly know why….ever observant of all winged movement, [he] saw that it was taking daily a southing tendency….It was difficult to settle down to anything seriously, with all this flitting going on.” from Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. All this “flitting going on,” as [...]
Photo Essay: Autumnal Tints—Western Style
Posted in Landscapes, Western Photography, Western Travel Writing, tagged Photo Essay, southwestern autumn photography, Thoreau on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photographer’s note: Thoreau’s essay “Autumnal Tints” describes his impressions of the infinite subtlety and beauty of the colors of New England in Fall. Who can not be startled surrounded by fiery woods, or seeing maple or liquid ambar exploding in October’s sun? The dry southwest colors—dun streaked, white gold, russet, browns, oranges and tans—present even [...]
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