Summer

Fresh hay, Arroyo Seco

In some way that I cannot fully explain, I believe that this photograph will come to be the single image that I would select if asked to choose one photograph to represent this year’s New Mexico visit. And our stay is not even half way through yet.

The freshly stacked, still green, hay contains the young summer. The farming is non-intensive, like the town. The light is clear and bright. All in the presence of the mountains and the sky. I watched the hay being cut from our rental house; the stack sits just a block away.

The South Fork Fire stills burns in the Santa Fe National Forest; now 14,300 acres and only 45% contained. However, the prevailing wind over the wildfire has turned more towards the east taking the smoke over Santa Fe rather than Taos. New Mexico blues have returned to the landscape and my camera responded by seeking the horizon for the first time since arriving in Roswell a week ago.