#ElNiño outlook is encouraging for wetter conditions in late 2026–2027. Long range forecasts also point to an active summer monsoon season in the Four Corners. 🤞🌩️
#nmwx #cowx #azwx #utwx #weather #meteorology #water
Night sky filled with stars above a dark mountain ridge, with a bright comet visible near the upper center-right, its glowing head and faint tail pointing upward. The foreground is silhouetted terrain under a deep blue sky.
Likely birthed in the Oort Cloud hundreds of thousands of years ago, Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) emerges into view. Captured Friday morning at the #edge of dawn. 🥱
#alphabetchallenge #WeekOforOld #astronomy #nature 📷🔭 #comet #NM #NewMexico #publiclands #astrophotography #landscape #BlueSkyArtShow
A small adobe church with a bell tower and white crosses sits at the end of a gravel path in a rural mountain setting. In the foreground, a stone cross and a fenced grave adorned with flowers mark a simple cemetery. Scrubby vegetation and scattered rocks surround the grave and path with tree-covered mountain ridges rising in the background beneath a partly cloudy sky.
St Francis de Asis Catholic Church, Golden, NM
Build in 1830s and renovated in 1960s.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOForOld #photography 📷 #newmexico #nmtrue #religion
And it holds the accumulated knowledge of mankind! Good adaptation of the book. 🤜🤛🪨
Free standing taco restaurant sign that reads: In queso emergencies we pray to cheese us.
Remember Cheesus Saves!
#photography 📷
#alphabetchallenge #weeknfornonsense
Five colorful hot air balloons floating against a clear Blue Sky.
This morning sunrise in Albuquerque NM. It's that time of the year.
Black and white image of a small-town cinema labeled “America Theatre” featuring a vertical marquee sign and a ticket booth entrance, with parked cars alongside the brick building under a partly cloudy sky.
This photo captions itself for the #AlphabetChallenge. The reality is we’re closer to The Last Picture Show. #WeekMforMovies #photography #americana 🙏
Sunlit desert landscape with layered sandstone formations in the foreground, their curved, striated surfaces glowing orange in low-angle light. In the distance, broad flat-topped mesas rise against a blue sky dotted with scattered clouds, with deep shadows.
Needles District, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers #photography #nature ⛏️ #geology
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A museum display of Native American woven baskets arranged on blue pedestals, featuring large and small jars, bowls, and trays with intricate geometric patterns in natural tan and dark brown fibers. Behind the display is a black and white photograph of an indigenous woman weaving a basket outdoors, providing historical context for the craftsmanship. Labels identify the pieces as works from Apache tribes.
Jicarilla and Western Apache tribe baskets at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos represent generations of knowledge shaped by land and tradition. Skills declined under forced relocation/assimilation but continue to be preserved and revived today #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers #photography #NM 🏛️
Abstract aerial view of desert badlands near Mexican Hat, Utah, showing layered red and tan sandstone forming zigzag and chevron patterns across the landscape, dotted with sparse vegetation.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers
#Photography #utah 📷⛏️ #geology #nature
Skyfire and great clouds!
A macro image of a piece of petrified wood which is part of the Royal Ontario Museum's mineral collection. The concentric rings of the original tree are visible in the brown, fossilized remains. Opal deposits have formed in what were presumably cracks in the wood. At the angle the image was made, the opal is primarily blue with some milkier white spots and flashes of green fire.
Petrified wood with opal inclusions. Opal is by far my favourite gemstone; I think the fire is mesmerising.
#BlueSkyMonday #MacroMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLayers #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #ECK #Geology #ROM #Macro #Photography
Black and white landscape of eroded badlands hills, their smooth, layered and striated surfaces shaped into rounded mounds and ridges. Three mounds catches bright, directional light while foreground and background areas fall into shadow.
Layers of time revealed in light and shadow in Northern Arizona
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLayers #geology ⛏️ #AZ #badlands #erosion #strata #BlackandWhite #Southwest #photography 📷
NIce Mike! Great meteor, too. I went out last night north of ABQ until about 10 and did not see it.
Thanks Mike. Using QDslrdashboard makes it a lot easier than doing it by hand. Looks like aurora might happen tonight. Seeing reports on aurorasaurus. One positive about the heat- clear skies.
Time lapse of Zodiacal light, which is the rare glow of the solar system. Cabezon Wilderness Study Area west of Albuquerque, NM. Captured while the aurora wasn't cooperating. 😁
Music: Everlasting Sunset by Max Brodie
#photography #timelapse #video #astronomy 🔭 #nature
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#art #photo #photography #nightphotography #temple #Tainan #EastCoastKin #culture #lanterns #LightAndShadow
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Image from NOAA space weather dashboard showing KP-6 level aurora possible tonight.
3 day forecast of aurora. Peak levels 03-1200 UT on March 19
Fingers crossed!
3 day forecast of aurora. Peak levels 03-1200 UT on March 19
#aurora #sun #NOAA
O'Sheena. 👍🤣
Eyes focused on handler, black, white, and tan dog leaping over a blue and white agility bar in a sandy arena, captured mid-air during a dog sports event at Albuquerque Fair Grounds.
Such joy! Yet, even in midair, the pup’s focus stays on the handler watching for the next cue, and where the next move, begins.
Agility event, Albuquerque, New Mexico
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition #NM #athletic #attention
#photography #dog #event 📷
Ancient pictographs of lizards on a red sandstone cliff face with blue sky, wispy clouds above and contrail of jet crossing the sky.
Ancient and modern in Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado Utah
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJForJuxtaposition #photography #nature #indigenous #art #publiclands
#rockart #CO #UT
In the foreground a skateboarder rides among pedestrians while a man behind him on a skateboard films.
Just a position. 16th Street Mall, Denver, CO
#Photography #Street #urban 📷
#AlphabetChallenge
#weekJforJuxtaposition
Very creative! After years of diligent training by my wife, the first thing I notice is the toilet paper hanging the
'wrong' way. Now I can tell her “under” was pre-ordained. 😄
I bet you can hold your own. 🥴
I think the decorators did it to f with the drunks.
Reminds me of the sci-fi series Travelers. Feels like there might be something equally surreal on the other side of those doors.
Great poem, Mike. A beautifully written metaphor for coexistence and compassion. Something we need in these times. Thanks for sharing.
Interior of a large rail yard maintenance building with rusted steel beams, broken windows, and debris scattered across the concrete floor. cool daylight from high windows.
Albuquerque Rail Yard
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForInterior