Tuesday, Nov 14 - Clouds Over Taos

Happy Birthday wishes to my nephew, Bobby, who is 21 today!

I started shooting the snow clouds at 7 a.m. when I noticed that Taos Mountain had "disappeared" and resumed again at noon, as I drove east into Taos on Hwy 68.











I hope you enjoy these amazing cloud photos.

I recognize that I am somewhat obsessed by the sunsets here, but do hope you enjoy seeing what I saw today.

There are lots more photos on the Kodak album, available at http://www.kodakgallery.com

Look closely at the cloud shots from the highway - they are photos of the Rio Grande Gorge.

At 3 p.m. the black snow clouds appeared, and the sunlight peeking through turned all aspen trees a shimmering white, stunning against the dark cloud background.
hope you enjoy these amazing cloud photos.




















Pink clouds and cloud mists appeared, followed by dark clouds moving across the mountains and valley.

We were gifted with a spectacular, layered cloud sunset.


After shooting this spectacular sunset, I saw another interesting and fascinating movie, of the human kind.

Tonight was the final showing of the movie, "The U.S. vs John Lennon" at the Taos Center for the Arts (we don't have a movie theatre devoted to independant films).

If you haven't seen this movie, it's worth the 90 minutes. It was an amazing sight to once again see the hundreds of thousands of people who cared enough to go to our nation's capital and question our government's actions and decisions. To stand there with candles and chant, "give peace a chance". It was interesting to see, from this 2006 perspective, that the administration at that time was threatened by John Lennon and his message of "all you need is love" and his plea to "give peace a chance". John Lennon was indeed a man of peace and love, and while at the time he was portrayed in the media as a nutcase, after watching the footage of his interviews in the early 70's, it's clear that he was a messenger of peace, using his fame, his music, and the press to communicate his hope and desire to just "give peace a chance".

And to compare what was happening then to what is happening now......