Debate over police surveillance intensifies in NM haussamen.com/2026/02/11/d...

Border Patrol took a man’s gun, then executed him haussamen.com/2026/01/25/b...

A couple of evenings ago.

The Companies Behind Ice: Mapped readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Federal thugs are deterring protest with violence haussamen.com/2026/01/14/f...

America has fallen and she can't get up.

Good morning! How are you holding up? What are you up to today? The autumn crocuses declare that autumn is here :) (Colchicum autumnale - not really crocuses!) I have them in areas that are dead dry all summer; like the hardy cyclamen, the flowers are a harbinger of fall :)

Good morning! How are you holding up? What are you up to today? It's definitely feeling like autumn here. The highbush cranberry is giving the first bit of autumn color. I love autumn, even if ours tends to be rather abbreviated for us.

Aside from all the other obvious points it strikes me as particularly cringeworthy to feel you need to put your own face on BOTH sides of the coin

Not a football fan but this was hilarious. 👏

Monsoon sunset light in Sedona. Have a good night.

End of the rainbow in Sedona. Have a good nigh.

Clouds above the red rocks in Sedona. Have a good evening.

Variegated Meadowhawk.

Amid federal chaos, NM charts a course forward haussamen.com/2025/10/01/a...

Update.

"During the transition, law enforcement officials notified the incoming administration about the case as Mr. Trump’s team considered whom to appoint to to government positions..." And they still gave him the job! Did he keep the $50k? And what was his Cava order? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens was stunning. I did not want to leave.

Last week in NYC I sat with a friend I’ve known for 30 yrs. He retold me the story of how he was supposed to be in tower 2 for a meeting on 9/11 but it got cancelled that morning. He worked at a building just a block away. It is stunning the grief folks carry, still.

Thunder Mountain and a slender spire near Coffeepot Rock in Sedona. Have a good day.

Red, white, and blue in Sedona. Have a good evening.

As far as I can tell the Trump Administration’s stance is that he took $50,000 in cash for totally innocent reasons and that thinking otherwise is deep state nonsense. No, it’s not plausible.

this bitch

Sunny and Dusty

Mule deer (young buck).

Pueblo ruins, Wupatki National Monument (northern Arizona).

How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording

Evening clouds and shadows in Sedona. Have a good night.

Great short film. youtu.be/e9CrboyqcA4?...

Or you can submit here: earthjustice.org/action/prote...

Reminder: just 17 days left to submit your comment about the Roadless Rule. I just submitted mine here: www.regulations.gov/document/FS-...

Good morning! How are you holding up? What are you up to today? This crab spider is lying in wait on the coreopsis. With autumn coming, there are orb weaver webs everywhere as well!

This is Pepper. She needs a home where her job is weighted blanket and not terrorizing every other cat in the house + making them ill. She's very territorial but extremely sweet with (adult) humans. Do you live within driving distance of Houston + need a solo lap cat? I will bring her to you!

Harvested the rest of the first row of carrots today—Nantes Half-long, which I love bc they are thick & not as tapered as some other hybrids & don’t break when you pull them up. Tasty too.

Ruby-throated hummingbird #birds

Scaled Quail.

Democrats didn’t start redistricting war haussamen.com/2025/08/27/d...

“Papers, please”

Miss "Lydia" shows us her screen with a temp of 97° at 11am while she works packing grapes in Bakersfield CA. The area is under an extreme heat warning meaning a high risk for heat illness especially among the elderly like herself, but she works out of necessity. #WeFeedYou #calor

On the front lines in NM, many express hope haussamen.com/2025/08/19/o...

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Good morning! How are you holding up? What are you up to today? We got an inch of amazing rain in the last 36 hours. It mostly fell as a fine mist, no runoff at all. It was wonderful but surprising -- we usually get 1-2 rains in August, 1/8" or less. The plants are so happy!

Fishhook barrel cactus buds starting to bloom.

Cevallia sinuata, aka "Stinging Serpent," a Chihuahuan Desert plant you definitely don't want to touch.

Trump’s nominee to replace the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner he fired pictured at January 6th, amazing scoop by @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.

NEW: The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is demanding an explanation on discrepancies between public statements about wildland firefighter staffing and a ProPublica report showing thousands of vacancies in the Forest Service’s workforce. By @abestreep.bsky.social