Dean Hanson

A career news photographer in New Mexico finding recovery in the simple beauty of our natural world. Thanking our Earth for the bountiful life it has granted me

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All peaceful Sunday morning to you. I’ve cut another brand new ancient Viking rune. This one represents “Healing”. It feels like it belongs near the top of the hill with “Joy”.

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@no2wipp I like when the seed pods dry out and explode flinging seeds shaped like tiny frisbees everywhere with a loud pop.

Never ever put a dried bird of paradise pod in anyone’s desk at work unless you work at a newspaper. Then it’s ok.

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Plumbing day. It says one hour cure time. It’s been 4 going to wait 6 hours before turning water on because it’s plumbing. I really need a hug.

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Plumbing day today! The Ramones help.
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated (Official Music Video) https://t.co/1HBbay3ysf via @YouTube

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I put off for years planting something here to shade the patio from late afternoon sun. This Desert willow was tired of the wait so he popped up out of the sand about a year ago. Alright, already, you did the hard part now let’s make you beautiful. Amazing how the desert works.

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At first glance from a distance what did I hope this might be?

No it wasn’t. Shit.

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@____MC94 @catnip25 Brits call these wheelie bins not dumpsters only to make taking out the trash sound fun & charming. Even a wheelie bin fire sounds cute over there.

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This is the Viking rune for wealth. I easily etched it into very soft pumice using the ancient technique of an angle grinder with a diamond blade just because New Mexico doesn’t have enough Viking runes. Careful if you try this, the dust you’re flinging are tiny shards of glass!

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@Bewickwren It isn’t as much a rock collection as they are collections of rocks. Occasionally a large one needs to be hollowed out to hold the others.

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From my earliest memory I couldn’t go on a walk without coming home with a pocket full of cool rocks. My mom knew where they came from when she found them in her washing machine.

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@khalil_spencer Even worse. I got a degree in journalism. I know now big oil pays huge money to geologists.

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@Burquerick I’m sorry that happened to you Rick. Never happened to me. I think I got fax numbers.

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@JamesDYodice You’re right James. As a kid I constantly dialed 6-9123 to find out if it had warmed up at all from -20 in Minnesota. Loved hearing that mechanical woman’s voice saying “It’s minus 19 degrees”

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I need to get all these construction materials out of my garage. They completely deaden the acoustics of my new garage door when I sing karaoke in my garage and my flute solos sound like garbage without that echo.

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@Bewickwren Thanks I guess I knew that. I just didn’t want something new to remember.

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Sometimes I wonder if I deserve the desert to be so kind to me. When something pops up in a good location I leave it to see what it becomes. When it gets really scraggly I take a nippers & discover the magic inside. I don’t care what it’s called & who am I to question a gift?

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I always like to point out a solution for a problem you didn’t know you had until I mentioned it. May it feel as therapeutic to you as it did for me to cover those decades old ugly outlets. Now they’re just impossible to see in the dark but they look cool. #DIY

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@MoundLore Always leaving the front door unlocked when you left home in case someone really needed to get in while you were gone.

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@CC_WxWitch It’s part of my ongoing erosion control and rainwater collection experiment on the 45 degree hillside in my backyard. Mostly perches for birds. Watching them fly away with shredded bark which sways nicely but kind of creepy/cool in the wind.

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I used the wood from my dead Cottonwood tree to built 3 primitive tressels In descending size. I knew where I wanted them but struggled with exact placement. Days later I discovered I had unconsciously placed them within a few degrees of the Earth’s exact east west axis.

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Viewed looking uphill framed beneath the largest primitive tressle I built using wood from a dead Cottonwood tree is the Viking rune for “joy” cut in stone using a diamond wheel grinder. Because #NewMexico doesn’t have enough Viking runes.