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Category: Nature

  • Trees and wildflowers

    Showy Daisies in the Valles Caldera.
    Globe Mallows near the Jemez River.
    Oak tree near Battleship Rock.
    Birch, maybe?
    A caterpillar at home on an oak branch.
    Moth blending in to ponderosa pine.
    More oak.
    Trees damaged by the wildfires near Las Conchas.
    Firs in the Caldera.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • The wild life in Los Alamos differs from Los Angeles

    Having been here a little over three months, I’m still getting used to a few things – slower life style, more fresh air, cooking at a higher elevation, etc. One thing that still makes me catch my breath like a kid at 4th of July: Animals. I’m talking about being woken at 3:30am because a bear is going through the trash; or looking out the window while making a cup of coffee to see a buck staring at you from 7 feet away; or driving down the road and being stared down by a coyote two lanes over; or humming birds dive bombing you as you try to grill because you’re standing too close to their feeder (seriously, humming birds are the douche bags of the avian world).

    I love this little town.

     

  • Fuller Lodge

    I’m finally taking the time to start exploring Los Alamos and I decided to check out Fuller Lodge and its surroundings.

  • Getting back to my roots

    I used to post pics of flowers and plants on a different site. I’m starting it up again here at thebrownman.com where the pics will be larger and a little easier to upload because of the WordPress (see below for why it was such a pain to post to the old blog).

    With the old blog, the pictures I took were uploaded to Flickr because Typepad has a really f’ed up way of storing uploads in badly nested folders. WordPress has a media library that gives you a great front end to manage your media. Dealing with Flickr also had problems because I was always having to copy and paste the Flickr url for EACH pic. It was exhausting. WordPress really is a better choice for blogging.

  • Fire photos from last week

    A large plume seen from Ashley Pond in downtown Los Alamos.
    Qwest workers watching the fire from their rooftop.
    A couple watch the smoke plumes grow while sharing a picnic at Ashley Pond in Los Alamos.
    Fire danger: Extreme.
    Los Alamos, NM.
    Summer in New Mexico.
    Smoke can still be seen over the hills at sunset.
    The most visible portion of the fire was from Barranca Mesa.
    Fire rages north of Barranca Mesa.