My Year in Photos

January

Albuquerque New Years with elk posole, hand made tortillas, and these dogs wanting to come out and join us by the fire on the patio.



February

Rows of Air Force solar panels, the Vegas strip, and snow covered mountains as I worked.



March

Visited a friend in Tombstone, AZ, made an interesting new one. I saw this monk wandering around taking photos of everything, as wonder bread cracked jokes about him.



April

Working near this pretty horse in a field of fresh flowers, outside of San Diego, CA.



May

Blues festival after a few days of frog training, lots of biker leather, tie dye, and local cowboys laying in the hot sun in Silver City, NM. You drink too much sody pop there cowboy? Looking for a port-o-potty that has been baking in the sun.



June

I went camping in the US Virgin Islands alone for some peace, solitude, and turquoise water. Click here for haiku about my trip.



July

Dinner, two-stepping and cattle roping all at the same spot in Brownsville,TX.



August

Even Walmart was roasting green chili, everyone does this time of year in Albuquerque.



September

Mini Oktoberfest near Bonn, Germany. Click here for haiku about this trip.



October

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta with a cup of hot coco in one hand, and my camera in the other.



November

The roads traveled alone are always the most thought provoking. Somewhere in Northern New Mexico by myself. Click here and here for haiku about this trip.



December

Look, I can stay warm with a blanket, and hold my coco and the remote at the same time in my Snuggie! So stylish and slimming too!

The Greatest Christmas Decoration Ever

My boss sent this to me in an email. I laughed so hard, I have to pass it on.



Fantastic. Greg sends along this DIY FYI:

"Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever.Great stories. But two things made me take it down.

First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.

Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn't realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard."

White Sail on the Horizon

"Down in her soul, the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a shipwrecked sailor, she perused her solitary life with hopeless eyes, searching for some white sail far away where the horizon turns to mist. She didn't know what her luck might bring, what wind would blow it her way, what shore it would take her to, whether it was a sloop or a three-masted schooner, laden with anguish or crammed to the portholes with happiness." Gustav Flaubert from Madame Bovary

Flaubert always says my feeling best, and I do seem at a loss for words myself lately. I feel shipwrecked myself, as if everything I knew before was lost, and I see a white sail on the horizon. I'm not sure what that ship holds other than the excitement of the unknown. It won't so much as rescue me, as allow me to join it in it's present and future adventures in places I haven't allowed myself to explore yet.