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April 23

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2019 2 hour hike along Hoodoo/Tunnel Mountain trail A flurry of wet snow reminds me that it’s April in the Rockies Hoodoos and the Bow River: the incredible glacial green water is not as evident Maybe a golden eagle: folks with binoculars saw one a few minutes earlier really REALLY windy REALLY windy It’s windy 2018 I show my passport; I’ve overstayed my welcome By two travel days. 2017 There are some voices To which I cannot listen. Fleeing Jeff Sessions. He says "President Trump," And I shake my head because It still seems surreal. 2015 Rio Grande hike, Pilar turnoff 2014 Wow 2013 To walk or to lounge? Inertia is powerful. I watch the hawk soar. In the time it takes To find my camera phone The clouds change colour. Oblivious (or Indifferent) to humans, Watching the sunrise. 2010 I hear a chainsaw.  The corner house with mean dogs  Has lost its hedges. 2009 damn. catching a cold. no No NO!!! my sweetie is hosting at the homeless shelter tonight. i get to pretend I'm...

February 9

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2020 Sunrise, moonrise, and launch of SolarOrbiter. All in a day’s work 2015 Lenticular clouds at UNM Taos 2014 San Miguel Chapel..,.oldest church in the US...built 1610...fabulous acoustics She points to the street. Law-abiding tumbleweeds Wait for the light change. 2013 This photograph, taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on January 18th, shows the north coast of Trinidad and a series of subtle, interacting arcs in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. These are known as “internal waves,” the surface manifestation of slow waves that move tens of meters beneath the sea surface. Internal waves produce enough of an effect on the sea surface to be seen from space, but only where they are enhanced due to reflection of sunlight, or sunglint, back towards the International Space Station. They are created by differences in density of water layers (from changes in temperature or salt content, for example) when that water moves over a feature such as an underwater mountain or a continen...