We went to the Bernardo Bird Refuge today, a pleasant 20-minute drive from where we live.  Cold, clear, and filled with the sound of thousands of birds, mostly sandhill cranes and snow geese. Here are hundreds of snow geese panicked by the sound of my camera shutter.     The best pictures were those taken […]

  Okay, so finally Knight Moves is available for Kindle, Nook, and on multiple formats via Smashwords. This book is brought to you courtesy of my crowdsourcing program. My holidays are finally complete.

This is a not-particularly-brilliant photo of this year’s Merlinpeen tree.  I must admit that I was on my second margarita when I took it. I hope you all enjoy this year’s Festival of Mouth Pleasures, or— if you happen not to share my Verdukian faith— a wonderful Christmas, a joyous Festival of Lights, a riotous […]

Behold my photo of Santa Fe’s Loretto Chapel, where we attended Pro Musica’s annual Baroque Christmas Concert the other night.  The chapel was built by the Sisters of Loretto, who came to Santa Fe in the 1850s and ran an orphanage and hospital until 1968, after which the chapel was de-sanctified and is now a […]