B. B. King may be gone now, but the thrill of his music lives on.
El Paso DJ Sonny Melendrez and B. B. King backstage at the Pan American Center, New Mexico State University, Oct. 24, 1970.
Backstage with B. B. King
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Category Archives: Photos
Reptilian Discourse From A Horny Toad
‘Nuf said. Photo in the Doña Ana Mountains © William P. Diven.
Hang on Tight as Your Train Wiggles Through an Autumn Slide Show
Coal smoke, chill air and rampaging color. Can’t beat the high country as your train whistles and chugs above 10,000 feet and through the aspen groves on a splendid fall day.
Each aspen stand is its own little family with their DNA determining the remaining color as photosynthesis ends and the green drains away until next year. Photo © William P. Diven.
Heed Robin Williams’ Advice
Robin Williams, San Francisco, 1984. Photo © William P. Diven.
As Robin Williams left the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco he encountered a TV news photographer who was carrying only his still camera. The photographer never asked celebrities to pose with him in those pre-selfie days, Continue reading
A Meeting Of Snakes And Politics
Be careful where you step when hiking the campaign trail.
On the New Mexico campaign trail. © William P. Diven.
Today’s animal discourse from Catnip Kitty
Where have all the snowflakes gone?
The weather cooperated nicely this weekend for a hike in the Sandia Mountains. Sunny with tolerable wind and the thermometer dangling from my pack reading 60 as I shuffled up Tunnel Springs trail. Even the East Coast news guy on morning TV checking the national forecast map said, “It looks like the Southwest is the place to be.” Well maybe, maybe not, since our mountains again show only white tips instead of the deep snow cover ready to feed streams, rivers and irrigation systems with the spring melt.
