10yrs ago today, after finishing a 50 mile loop. I thought Santa Fe would’ve made roads safer for cyclists by now. But 😢

Earthquakes! Four earthquakes have been reported south of Belen, NM since 8:30 pm, June 13. The two most recent occurred around 11:40 am, June 14. The strongest was a M3.9 at 11:41 am near Las Nutrias, NM. Did you feel it??

This may be one of my favorite Milky Way shots to date. I actually love the red glow on the horizon from the wind turbine lights.

I saw this composition but didn't really have a long zoom lens, so I zoomed as far as I could, then cropped it. Thankfully, the image held together.

Faint rainbow after brief sprinkles & cool scent of petrichor. Datura will be opening tonight. All good for dreams.

Governor Abbott closed out his speech at the Texas GOP convention with a live elephant. It then peed on the floor as it left the room. The perfect metaphor for the Texas Republican Party.

And at home I have a cushy chair that when I sit in it and close my eyes, I fall asleep. A nap chair. This is crucial for any writer. garrisonkeillor.substack.com…

I saw several Eastern Collared Lizards yesterday, including a male & 2 females. The females are gravid & plump with eggs, the orange spots develop when they are pregnant. Interesting that 1 female has a very golden head while the other doesn't.

The thing about corn/bean ag is that people hold it up as the pinnacle of production. Cmon. The amount of investment in research and development, infrastructure, social engineering, etc that has gone into creating modern grain farming is almost unfathomable. The largest top down reframing of agriculture in history. this does not demonstrate that this is the most productive possible system, its merely the one that we went all in on, for myraid reasons. We definitely defied the "don't put all your eggs in one basket" aphorism, and now we are dealing with the consequences. The outcome of Haber-bosch and the subsequent green revolution did not HAVE to take the form of 220 bushel/acre corn spread over 10million illinois acres, with water, soil and community damage everywhere

Life is a trip. You’ll reach milestones where you think certain things: growth, change, new perspectives, flirting, new friends, new habits, etc. are impossible. Gone. Yesterday’s news. I’m the fossil here to let you know, no. You wince. I LOL. Your day is coming. Keep living.

Heavy rain a few nights ago brought out 4 species of amphibians 🐸 in the Chihuahuan Desert: Couch's Spadefoot, Mexican Spadefoot, Great Plains Toad, & Red-spotted Toad. Always amazing how many amphibs live in the desert just waiting for the rains.⛈️

I was literally praying this crow would stay still long enough for me to walk around her to get the composition of her between buttes in the brightest area and give her the most contrast.

These tiny sprouts hide in grama grass, popping up everywhere like desert mushrooms now in hot dry wind. I pull them up from my yard before they spread into colonies. Dog steps on them when snow covers the ground. I don’t know how coyotes avoid them!

Little snake at front door & swallows’ nest lined with my dog’s fluff high up at back door. NM high desert home.

🤠 Nevada’s oldest rodeo rides into Elko June 19-21 with mutton busting, mini bulls, and the legendary Ring of Fear. In between, don’t forget to visit their massive vendor market to pick out your favorite Western goods.. We’ll “Yee-Haw” to that! bit.ly/4bDF21y

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention. The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean. And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them. Record-breaking temperatures. A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse. The response? Yank out the instruments and walk away. That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency. For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives. The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident. That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first. cnn.com/2026/06/03/climate/o…

The coloration on this male Greater Earless Lizard is amazing!

All peaceful Sunday morning to you. I’ve cut another brand new ancient Viking rune. This one represents “Healing”. It feels like it belongs near the top of the hill with “Joy”.

Nah, man. We are Twitter.. You, me, us, them (a lot of lovely peeps). Judicious blocks, wow amazing follows, stories, songs, factual information, hearts, souls, beauty, hurts. Curate life. You know this.

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

In 2010, Andernach, Germany planted 101 varieties of tomatoes in the town center and told everyone to take whatever they wanted. It was so popular that they did it again, adding beans the next year. Over time, they added onions, fruit trees, lettuce, zucchini, berries, and herbs, all free to the public and maintained by the city. Andernach is now nicknamed the "edible city." And they're not alone. Philadelphia has been doing a version of this since 2007. The Philadelphia Orchard Project has helped establish 67 sites across the city with thousands of food-bearing trees. Baltimore is planting fruit trees on sidewalks. Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, and Asheville all have public urban orchards. A mature apple tree produces 400-500 pounds of fruit per year. A mature pear tree can produce for 75 years. Cities pride themselves on their tree cover. We've decided that trees are important, but we haven't fully decided those trees should feed people yet. Would you support urban fruit trees and vegetables in your city?