Posts by Laura Paskus

This summer, the sweet spot for visiting the Albuquerque bosque has been narrow. You can go during the scorching daylight hours or visit at dawn or dusk and be eaten alive by mosquitoes.  (Bike riders and speedy runners might outpace the bloodsuckers. As a meanderer easily distracted by bird calls and animal tracks, I’m easy…

On Sunday afternoon around 4 p.m., the light suddenly changed in northern New Mexico. I was looking down, tying my shoe, when I noticed. The play of light and shadow had that thick quality most of us recognize from when smoke spreads in front of the sun.  Sure enough, smoke was starting to pour over…