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I think this is a calliope hummingbird, sitting on a yucca stalk near the hummingbird feeder outside our dining room window. We get a lot of black-chinned hummingbirds around here, but this guy is different.

Taken with a LUMIX GX1, with a Panasonic 100-300mm zoom lens, cranked all the way out (600 mm-effective).

#photography #birb

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It’s a pretty pre-sunrise morning out there.

#photography #NewMexico #sunrise

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Another hot day here in #NewMexico, with another beautiful sunset to reward me for making it to the end of the day.

Also had steak, sweet potato fries, and fresh green beans for dinner, which was a nice treat.

And with any luck, this will also post to Twitter. Fingers crossed!

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Another evening, another spectacular #sunset by Mother Nature here in #NewMexico

#photography

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Made this #recipe the other night, and it was damned tasty. Worth capturing, I thought.

Ingredients

• 2-4 tilapia fillets
• 1 can sweetened condensed coconut milk
• 1 Tbsp Thai red chili paste
• 2 Tbsp lime juice
• 1 Tbsp chopped garlic
• 1 tsp dried ground ginger
• 4 drops orange extract

Kiwi Salsa Ingredients

• 3 golden kiwis
• 2 Tbsp finely chopped yellow onions
• 2 Tbsp Pico Fruta or 4 tsp Tajin seasoning
• ½ tsp lime juice

Directions

• Make the salsa the night before and let it sit overnight in the fridge.
• Marinate fish in other ingredients.
• Broil fish in the marinade for about 13 minutes @ 400 in a shallow pan.
• Turn fish over and broil another 7-9 minutes.
• Optionally put some Spanish rice in taco shells and drizzle with the marinade.
• Assemble tacos. Think “three-ingredient street tacos” and maybe throw in some shredded cabbage or carrots to go with the meat and salsa.

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We have some awfully pretty skies here in New Mexico. This was taken this evening, looking northeast from our place near Eldorado at Santa Fe. The sunset was pretty, but nothing spectacular, but the way it lit up the towering clouds to the east was pretty special. I hope this never gets old.

#photography #NewMexico #sunset

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Just a little test to see how the writing behaves from my iPhone. Does the JavaScript mess with text selection?

And how about going back to edit after the fact? That’s not too bad once I figured out where to find the edit button.

There’s the scrolling issue with the text hiding behind the keyboard. That’s not great, but I can usually scroll the text up so I can see it as I’m writing. Except sometimes when iOS wants to move the selection point instead of scrolling.

And I seem to remember some markdown, though I’ll need a refresher on that.

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