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Joseph Yaroch
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Hike/run/photo: rocks and plants. Psychiatrist. New Mexico. Armchair philosopher, and founder of the Society of Perpetual Sophomores. Prepare for a general strike.
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Yellow-headed Blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) on the New Mexico State University campus.

bird photography
Telephoto view of a cluster of birds in a tree. Many birds in a tree
November 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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This video was made at the NMSU (New Mexico) campus ROTC building. It features all the things Trump hates. The MAGA movement valorizes the opposites of these virtues.
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Dasylirion wheeleri, also known as the desert spoon or common sotol, in the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument in New Mexico.
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Stinging Serpent (Cevallia sinuata), in Doña Ana New Mexico USA.
3 orange flowers in the morning sun. The plant is covered with tiny hairs connected to sacs of formic acid.
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Morning walk.
Close up of autumn leaves
November 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Deep roots. Amatista Ledges Trail, at the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument in New Mexico, USA.
This shows a very long, thin, twisted root that extends across several rock strata.
November 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Moon over the Organ Mountains 11/13/2016. One of my favorites.

Landscape photography, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
Telephoto picture of a supermoon rising above craggy mountain peaks.
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Cylindropuntia leptocaulis, Desert Christmas cactus. Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA.
A very spiky cactus
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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The government shutdown may last longer because of a fight over hemp.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he will not support speedy passage of a deal to reopen the government because of a provision that would make some THC products illegal.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
If enacted and signed into law, the hemp provision would mean hundreds of now-legal THC products — most commonly sold as Delta-8 or Delta-9 — would no longer be legal to sell. It is currently federally legal to sell hemp-derived THC products as long as they contain no more than 0.3% THC by dry weight. The language in the new legislation imposes a total THC limit of 0.4 milligrams and would effectively ban those products for personal or household use.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Aurora photography, Las Cruces, NM, USA.
Photo of the Aurora Borealis
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Male Gambel's quail (Callipepla gambelii)
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
The Callipepla gambelii birds are easily recognized by their top knots and scaly plumage on their undersides. Gambel's quail have bluish-gray plumage on much of their bodies, and males have copper feathers on the top of their heads, black faces, and white stripes above their eyes. Bird photography.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Yet another cat photo.
Black and white photo of a cat sitting in a sunbeam
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Rio Grande Levee Road fall color walk.
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
This is a distant view of a row of trees developing autumn color. This is a closer view of the trees. This is even closer. It's the photo I had in my mind as I approached the trees.
November 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Organ Mountains, New Mexico. Hiking photography.
This is a craggy peak, formed by intrusive magma about 30 million years ago.
November 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Group hike in the Organ Mountains. This was in Bar Canyon, which, confusingly, is in the Soledad Canyon Day Use Area near Las Cruces, NM, USA.
A guide from the Friends of the Organ Mountains explains the history of the stone house in the canyon. Remnants of the stone house A chasmophytic tree found a way to live up there. Maple trees are rare in New Mexico, but sometimes they can be found in places like these. This is Acer grandidentatum (Bigtooth Maple).
November 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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The direct sun is too warm, but the box in the sun is just right.
This is a cat in a cardboard box.
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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View from Bar Canyon, in the Soledad Canyon Day Use Area, part of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. Las Cruces NM USA.
November 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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This makes me happy in the morning.
Photograph of a stained glass artwork, depicting a roadrunner in a desert scene, backlit by the morning sun.
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Rocotillo Rapids hiking photos. Prehistoric National Monument, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. Not a beginner hike.
Photo showing deformed rick strata at the southern end of the Robledo Mountains, on the west side of the Rio Grande Rift. Several different kinds of rock can be found in this deep arroyo. This rock layer has been eroded by periodic water flows as well as high winds. This is a gnarled bit of juniper wood.
October 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Hiking the Rocotillo Rapids trail, Prehistoric Trackways, New Mexico, USA.
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Garden strawberry. Roadside Adonis Blazing Star.
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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There is a bumper sticker taped to the window of this barber shop. It says "Suavecito for President."
This is an old photo of an old barber shop. I recall being a kid in the 1960s and going there. It's in Nichols Arcade in Ann Arbor.
October 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, Las Cruces, NM, USA.
This is a rock spire separating from a layer of fossil-bearing rock.
October 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Boulder field in the Organ Mountains
Black and white photograph of a bunch of large boulders with the mountain peaks in the background.
October 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Panorama from the Baylor Pass trail near Las Cruces, NM, USA. Trail running.
October 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM