Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
It was a pleasure today to go and see my nephew Grant (center in the photo above) in the Eldorado High drama department’s presentation of A Midsummer’s Night Dream. The show was well done, and if not funny for the parts of it we couldn’t understand, it was due to the students who brought...
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At day end, I had just finished a task on the computer and was walking to the table near the open front door when I heard two of my neighbors out front talking. The question was “Is it sand or smoke?” And that was the only cue I needed for me to grab the...
Read more →Today is Easter Day, 2022. I don’t feel I have much of anything to say today really, because I’ve just appreciated the quiet of today. I got up and after I got around a bit, I took a casual morning walk around the Academy Loop. I enjoyed a late lunch with my immediate family...
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Two California condors rest on the girders of one of the Navajo Bridges in northern Arizona. Once thought extinct, the condors have made a small comeback, and they find the area around Navajo Bridges an attractive place to hang out at.
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This morning, up early and scheming for some photography practice, I texted my sister. Any interest in going to the Botanic Gardens? Yes. 7:40, she arrived with a cup of raspberry mocha for me, and we headed down towards I-25 and I-40 and the Old Town area. We enjoyed a great morning in the...
Read more →I recently watched a TedTalk video given by Max Hawkins, a guy who at one time lived a fairly rigidly structured life. Because he was a person of discipline, he meticulously scheduled his time, and by living according to this schedule, being in firm control, he came to feel he was living a bit...
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A second view out a south window in the McDonald Ranch House, which includes more of the room detail.
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McDonald Ranch House Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range, NM The world’s first nuclear weapon was assembled in an adobe and wood house, two miles from where it would detonate, in a remote New Mexico desert. Remarkably, the McDonald Ranch House stood up decently to the bomb’s terrifying blast on July 16, 1945, and...
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While out walking at North Domingo Baca Park after work, I saw light on the north Sandias between some treetops. I took a photo and then thought nothing of it and finished my walk. But then later, when you process a photo, sometimes you see something in it that you did not see when...
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