Two days ago, it rained from 5a and didn’t stop until 3a the following morning. EXCEPT! – for the brief hour around 5p, when the sun came out long enough to snap two pictures of the rainbow it spread across the eastern horizon. Not knowing it was going to storm – and I mean STORM […]
On Sunday was a glorious, riotous orange and yellow sunrise that lit the east side of the Organs up like neon highlighter. The drive away down the Aguirre Springs road was made begrudgingly, but the border control checkpoint and White Sands were waiting. White Sands is best in the morning or evening, when it is […]
After the spectacular failure of our first camping trip south, I decided to do it again the next weekend and revisit everything I felt we had missed. The plan was to slowly meander back down NM-380 to Carrizozo, camp Friday night at Valley of Fires State Park, wake up to explore the area around Carrizozo, […]
On the Tuesday of the second week of school – as if things weren’t hectic enough – the universe once again threw puppies at us.* I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off for 12 straight hours – school all day, after-care program after school till 5:30p, PSA meeting from 5:30p […]
In other parts of the country, the month of September means school, changing leaves, or possibly the observation of Teddy Bear Day (a real thing). To New Mexicans, however, September is synonymous with one thing: CHILE. Red, green, fresh, fired, hot, mild, however you like it. Drive across the Rio Grande bridge in Albuquerque with […]
