Monthly Archives: April 2008

On Tuesday I drove southeastward to get a view of the east facing slopes of the Manzano mountains where the Trigo wildfire continues to burn. With my telephoto lens zoomed in all the way to 300mm, the image above shows a helicopter preparing to drop fire retardant. As of this writing, the fire is still [...]

A massive wildfire, dubbed the “Trigo Fire”, has spread into the Manzano mountains southeast of Albuquerque, and fire crews are still struggling to gain control over it. It ignited on the western slopes of the mountains on Tuesday the 15th, and is estimated to have burned upwards of 3,400 acres as of today (Monday afternoon). [...]

As I stated in my previous post, the first stop on my March 7th day trip was at the Valley of Fires, but from there I headed southward to White Sands National Monument. I thought it was really worth the trip, and I enjoyed the photo ops…some of which were very challenging to capture on [...]

Back on March 7th, I went to the Valley of Fires recreation area in the Tularosa Basin of south central New Mexico. The Malpais lava flow stretches across the recreation area here where lava blankets the lower elevations of the basin and stretches southward for miles. You can see it on satellite imagery, including the [...]

Our house that we purchased last June has been a constant work in progress. Most of our money and most of our free time has been sucked into a seemingly endless home improvement pit (kind of like The Money Pit with Tom Hanks and Shelly Long…no it’s not that bad!) that Margie and I have [...]