Happy Thanksgiving! youtu.be/pJp6uQw92Gg

Happy 11th anniversary to the release of “Burn Your Village to the Ground.” youtu.be/qnGnj_e6gBw?...

Endorse!

We just finished watching this great documentary -- Nature: My Life as a Turkey on @pbs.org This man is living the biologists dream. www.pbs.org/video/nature...

HELL YES

Bizarreness. 50 hp DIESEL... "plan your merges accordingly."

Delicious and healthy, highly recommend. Have met the owner. Might help with local allergens as well. The jars are also a very useful size & shape and the labels come off easily! 👍

Würm (Steve Howe). Taylor T5Z12 through Boss compression and a chorus pedal cranked to max so it flanges. This is the correct way to voice the G EFlat C chord progression. The G strings stays open to drone. The descending bass notes D to Bflat to G give the piece it’s melody and movement. Genius 😎

FORT GARLAND, COLORADO 11/01/2025 Almost sundown looking north. Turn 180°, go south for 70 miles, and you're in Taos.

Got honked at taking this picture heading into Taos via sekrit short cut.

MURDER PORCH 10/31/2025 The Villisca, Iowa Axe Murder House. The night of June 19, 1912, two adults and eight children were killed by an axe-wielding intruder in a crime that's never been solved. Google it.

NORTHEAST OF KEOTA 10/30/2025 Keota, Iowa

Just discovered this incredible 2015 article about John Clay and the Lost Austin Band. What an astonishing cascade of '60s-era Austin names. I played with them in the early '70s but saw plenty of John Clay in the preceding decade. I'm even mentioned briefly. www.theragblog.com/dan-and-chri...

PICURIS FOOTHILLS 11/23/2025

LLANO QUEMADO 11/23/2025 Bullet holes in the mailbox but sometimes you can see for 90 miles.

ACROSS THE VALLEY 11/23/2025

PSA

Snowed in, alas.

They are fixated on the linear polarities of politics that blinds them to the expansiveness of human lived experience in relationship to the Earth's vast ecology. A new poll ranks of far more prominence in their imaginations & cognitive functioning than ancient landscapes rich with history & life.

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

As the man says

desert snapshots sunrise 11.20.25

THIS IS THE WAY Texture and Light Bosque Del Apache NWR 11/20/2025

MOUNTAIN CLOUD 11/21/2025

NEARBY 2 11/21/2025

VIEW FROM THE ‘HOOD 11/21/2025 Taos Mountain, etc. Calm evening at 7,000 ft.

Here's one of the most gracefully-styled Fords ever made: this 1940 coupe, owned since 1971 by the seller's father.

Surreal Flow Was waiting 2h for this moment. Bavaria, Germany #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #fog

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VILLISCA WATERWORKS 1930 10/31/2025

Being able to get above the clouds so close to home this morning was rejuvenating. #Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Colorado #Clouds #Nikon #CaptureOne

FREEDOM 10/30/2025 Keota, Iowa

ALMOST TO NEW MEXICO 11/01/2025

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: 𝙙𝙤 𝙄 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙚?~Joseph Campbell

Nobody wants this shit. Nobody. The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.

NOVEMBER LIGHT 11/20/2025

Had to look that up. Great shot!

Congressional Republicans weaponizing the Congressional Review Act (a terrible piece of public policy that should be repealed) to strike down Biden-era "Resource Management Plans" governing long-range management of public lands are inviting a "fuck around and find out" moment.

⚠️ New Mexico's first Winter Weather Advisories of the season go into effect Wednesday night for the northern mountains. 3-7" of snow is likely, with up to 10" across mountain peaks. 4-8" are likely in the Colorado San Juans.

youtu.be/ZoMUqWqyTzQ?... LEVON HELM BAND 'Battle Is Over But The War Goes On'

YOU CAN DO IT 11/16/2025 Con el mayor respeto from Jesus Nazareno Cemetery in Taos, NM

It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too

Working on Part II of this (jhfarr.substack.com/p/breakout) but here's a teaser from Keota, Iowa on October 30:

If you're not watching THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION on PBS, fix that immediately. It couldn't be more relevant and inspiring.

Really great video of how real Americans treat masked secret police. The sound of whistles in the background is especially heartening.

#BotanySky 🍀🌱🌿