Daily Postcard: Female Indigo Bunting and juvenile sharing a snack on Barranca Mesa. Indigo Buntings are rare in the western states, only 1-2 a year are seen in Los Alamos. Photo by Selvi Viswanathan
Female Indigo Bunting. Photo by Selvi Viswanathan
Male Lazuli Bunting on Barrel. Photo by Selvi Viswanathan
A Lazuli Bunting scatters the seed so pair are feeding on the deck of a home on Barranca Mesa. Photo by Selvi Viswanathan Read More
The Mother Store: The Mother Store of J.C. Penney Co. opened in 1929 in Kemmerer, Wyo. The store still exists as a typical Penney’s store with several historical features from the early days of the company. The store was much like the store where I worked during high school in Texas. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
J.C. Penney Home: The home of the Penney family has been restored and is furnished in early 1900s motif. The home is free to visit and contains a room of historical photos and items from the J.C. Penney Company. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Kemmerer Store: The Kemmerer Read More
A young arctic fox peers over the landscape near Moorudalur in Iceland as seen recently by Richard and Sophia Skolnik of White Rock, who joined a small group from Natural Habitat Adventures for an 11-day ‘circumnavigation’ of Iceland. The trip took them from Reykjavik to Akureyri over land, from there to the Westfjords by plane, and then another plane back to Reykjavik. Arctic foxes are the only mammal native to Iceland. Photo by Richard Skolnik
A whale dives beneath the waters of the Westfjords region, raising its fluke. Whale-watching is one of Iceland’s great natural spectacles. Photo Read More
A deer balances on its hind legs to eat crabapples from a tree on San Ildefonso Road. Photo by Kei Davis
By KEI DAVIS
Los Alamos
I’ve lived in the same house, here in Los Alamos, for over 20 years. Plant life on the property has changed, but one of only a few constants is the crabapple tree. (One neighbor says it’s not a true crabapple, but whatever it is, it’s common around Los Alamos, notably in the western area.)
For the first 10+ years that I lived here, the crabapples were mostly a mess, serving only as food for mice and gophers, and to irritate me, both in the mess they’d make, and as an attractant for Read More
Daily Postcard: A fawn spotted Saturday foraging around West Road. Photo by Michael Smith
A pair of fawns spotted foraging Saturday around West Road. Photo by Michael Smith
Another view of a fawn spotted Saturday around West Road. Photo by Michael Smith Read More
Daily Postcard: Beautiful flowers greet the morning sun on Friday in Velarde. Photo by Johnnie Martinez Read More
Sports News:
A torrential rain and lightning storm struck Española this evening, about 5 minutes before the scheduled kickoff time of Los Alamos High School Hilltopper’s season opening football game.
Heavy rains and, more importantly, steady lightning strikes within a couple of miles from the field on the campus of Española Valley High School led to the postponement, which was officially announced at 8:15 p.m.
The Hilltoppers and the Sundevils will now play the opening game at 11 a.m. Saturday in the valley. Read More
NMED News:
SANTA FE —The New Mexico Environment Department’s Surface Water Quality Bureau invites the public to comment on proposed amendments to the state’s surface water regulations.
The public draft of the changes can be found here. The 60-day public comment period opened Aug. 15, 2025, and will close Oct. 14, 2025. Comments may be submitted by mail, email or through NMED’s SmartComment portal.
Comments submitted to NMED will help refine the proposed amendments before the agency petitions the Water Quality Control Commission for a rulemaking hearing. An additional public comment period Read More
Current conditions at Caballo Lake State Park. Courtesy/EMNRD
STATE News:
SANTA FE — Caballo Lake State Park has closed access to the boat ramp and is prohibiting the use of motorized boats due to extremely low water levels.
The lake is still open for canoeing, kayaking, and other non-motorized vessels.
Low water levels are due to required maintenance around the dam and spillway by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. The lake will reopen to motorized boating once the Bureau of Reclamation completes its maintenance tasks, lake levels recover, and it is safe for visitors to use motorized Read More
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos County Golf Course and Bee City Los Alamos have partnered together to establish designated pollinator areas within specified rough areas of the course. Two locations have been identified, one on the front nine in the “Bermuda Triangle” of holes 1, 3, and 4, and the large area between holes 12 and 13 on the back nine.
The Los Alamos County Golf Course is currently preparing the “Bermuda Triangle” for Bee City to host a volunteer sowing event with a mix of native grass and pollinator plant seeds from 4:30–6:30 p.m., Sept. 17, 2025. Interested volunteers can volunteer for Read More