We hiked the Little Arsenic trail at the Wild Rivers National Monument near Questa, NM. It was only 2 miles out and back but it was down almost 800 ft and then 800 ft back up again.

Mary Jo hiking the Columbine Creek trail near Red River, NM. Very changeable weather conditions on our trip

Drove right up to this guy on a little dirt road at the edge of the Rio Grande gorge near Taos, NM

Sitting on the edge overlooking the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos, NM. Yes, Mary Jo was going nuts about me being too close to the edge

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"All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn't that the evil thing wins - it never will - but that it doesn't die." --John Steinbeck

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

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A couple of pics of skiing in my neighborhood as the big storms from early this month were dumping nearly a foot of snow

Trying to become a little more active here. Let's see how well a song posts. Lets try one that's been running through my mind recently for some reason.

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Looks like Trump's new populist working class GOP will pay for tax cuts for rich/corporations by:

*killing green manufacturing jobs
*taxing ordinary US consumers
*nixing food assistance (impacting Trump country)
*making life easier for wealthy tax cheats

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First actual post here. Closed twitter account, moving away from FB. Trying to see if this place will be a good replacement.
Just a sunset pic from our trip near Taos NM