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Rick Robb’s garden 2026. One view from early May through mid July. Dry as all get out. Finally a little rain yesterday.

The mushrooms were shot in the Jemez mountains

Camping Penderies near Rociada, NM. We were there to do a craft show on July 4th, hence the lights and decorations around the campsite. (Normally we don’t decorate, especially since I’m a Canadian.)(My wife is a US citizen but is pretty disgruntled with the current state of affairs.) The bear was a youngster who was hanging around the area drinking from birdbaths and eating seed from feeders. He’s getting a little too habituated to people so the residents are hoping he’ll leave on his own so fish and wildlife won’t need to put him down. The little leather charm tags on our hiking boots were made by a friend.

That last video is of a usually dry stream bed that piles up with pine needles when there’s a torrential rain. This is probably 4-5 ft deep in places and I’d guess there is at least half a ton of needles. It’s been there (and been added to) for at least 4 years; I think since the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon fire in April of 2022 took out a lot of the trees and underbrush, leaving not much to slow down the runoff.

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In 2018, Pastor Dave Barnhart of the Saint Junia United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama posted this message to Facebook:

“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. It’s almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe.