Winter Box Blues

I love trekking up to Embudo Box Canyon in the winter months. It's really quiet for one thing. Apart from the river itself, and perhaps a few small birds, nothing seems to move. But the really amazing thing is the ice. The base of the canyon doesn't get touched by the sun for two months or more, so the ice just piles up. As you'll see in this assortment of photos from a recent journey there, the water reflects the canyon walls in brilliant ways and when sunlight manages to creep down, the light is really magical. Enjoy the photos, and then get out and hit the trail and see it for yourself before spring starts to make things noisy again.

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Fire on the Embudo

Fires burning out of control in Arizona... fires crossing the state line and a fire just up the hill. There was a far less terrifying fire just this past weekend as Holly's Follies wrapped up their 5 show run with a rockin' cast party. Simon hosted and the Pathetics provided the tunes. Joining them here is the inimitable, incomparable and yes, incorrigible Rita O'Connell with a little support from the incendiary Jeff Favorite...

and if that isn't enough, here's the Dixon Players Barbershop Quartet.

Thanks to all who came out (and came out again) for Hollys' Follies!