Jaguars in Arizona?!

I just read this at Cryptomundo and followed the link to a more recent article about it (from yesterday) - they caught a wild Jaguar in Arizona and are now tracking it. According to ReadItNews, "The male cat was incidentally captured Feb. 18 in an area southwest of Tucson during a research study aimed at monitoring habitat connectivity for mountain lions and black bears."

ReadItNews went on to explain, "Jaguars once ranged from southern South America through Central America and Mexico and into the southern United States. By the late 1900s, jaguars were thought to be gone from the U.S. landscape, but two independent sightings in 1996 confirmed that jaguars still used Arizona and New Mexico as part of the northern most extent of its range."

You can read more about Macho B - the Jaguar - at the Arizona Game and Fish Dept website.

Katherine Lee

While we were in Santa Fe we were lucky to see the Mind the Gap exhibition at Eight Modern before it closed. I really enjoyed the work of Katherine Lee:

Exterior 16 (New Mexico), 2008, Oil and Spray Paint on Paper, 30 x 40 in

Exterior 15, Oil and Spray Paint on Illustration Board, 60x80"

Exterior 8, Oil and Spray Paint on Paper, 22"X30", 2006

Exterior 9, Oil and Spray Paint on Paper, 22"X30", 2006

Exterior 7, Oil and Spray Paint on Paper, 22"X30", 2006

What Road

I took this photo in New Mexico and it reminded me of a lunar landscape with really good warm lighting...
Here are the lyrics for this image (c/o Destroyer - an excerpt from "What Road"):

so quick let's go
it's time for the ride
the future's yours
no wait I lied

it's not yours
it's a replica of scattered ash
and the road the rain's on

New Mexico

Photos of New Mexico by Lorna Cochrane

Gustave Baumann

We're in Santa Fe, New Mexico right now and this week we're going to be sure to see Gustave Baumann; A Santa Fe Legend at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Our room here is graced with his beautiful wood-block prints and I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Gustave Baumann (via The Blue Lantern)

Gustave Baumann, Indiana Red Gum., Color woodcut, 1915-16. (image from here)

Gustave Baumann, Three Pines (image from flickr member j l t)

Great New Aerial Photographs from This Weekend

This is just a sampling of the many photos I took yesterday. I went to Farmington, NM twice (morning and afternoon), and around Denver in between. Click on any photo to link to my flickr site set of aerial photography.

Storage facility in Denver

Snow in the Mountains

The wing of our plane looking at Pike's Peak - 14,100 ft elevation - so high that we flew beside/below it

A close up/aerial shot of Great Sand Dunes National Park

Farming fields in San Luis Valley, Co just before the Great Sand Dunes