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“The alphabet is too short.”

So wrote my sister-in-law when “Z is for Zoom” posted in my Ghost Ranch Views alphabet.

I assured her that, while I have no plans to create new letters and extend the alphabet, my postings of Ghost Ranch pictures will continue.

I may go on hiatus for a couple of days – work has reached a busy stretch – but this good thing has not come to an end.

Next up – an a to z series of pictures that feature people. Following that, I will simply post pictures that interest me until I run out of pictures.

More will come.

See you along the Trail.

 

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Z is for Zoom

Do hummingbirds zoom?
Flit seems the word more often used.
But watching them gather at the feeder
located behind the kitchen,
zoom seems to fit as
they engage in a delicate, high-speed ballet of flight.

1 August 2009

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Y is for Yellow

Flowers come in many colors
at Ghost Ranch.
On my anniversary,
this patch caught my eye.

20 July 2009

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X is for Xeric

xeric:

“characterized by, relating to, or requiring only a small amount of moisture

<a xeric habitat> <a xeric plant>”

Merriam-Webster

I simply recognized its beauty.

Tricia and Eric helped me learn that the word xeric can describe that beauty.

17 July 2011

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W is for Water

Along the Box Canyon Trail,
water flows,
in some places even creating a waterfall.
Or at least falling water.

6 August 2008

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V is for Veins

That is probably not the botanically correct word,
but that is what I see in this flower,
seen near Tumbleweed.

15 July 2011

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U is for Uphill

Some trails at Ghost Ranch go uphill,
even more uphill than this one.
Hopefully the summer of 2012 will
bring a better illustration of uphill.

8 August 2008

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T is for Thistle


This one has posted before. I have tried to avoid repeats, but it continues to intrigue me. It grew outside of Tumbleweed where Tricia and I were staying this past summer. What struck me then and what has remains with me is how much this one plant  – not there by design but simply because of its tenacity – reveals. I wrote the following last summer and repost it here.

Unbidden,
a thistle grows in the yard,
a sturdy, prickly weed.
Unasked,
its green and purple hues
reveal
a simple mystery:
life,
death,
life to be,
triangle of eternity.

16 July 2011 (date of picture)
Ghost Ranch, New Mexico (location where poem was written)

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S is for Snow

Pedernal has had more snow in its day.

Pedernal has had more snow recently.

Someday I hope to have a camera with me when I see that.

For now, that little strip gives Pedernal a slightly different look.

24 October 2010

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R is for Rainbow

Not sure anything needs to be said.

24 August 2010

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