Monochromatic Nomadic
When you take something away, you see what remains with fresh eyes. Removing color reveals light, movement and texture with more clarity. We enjoy seeing the world this way sometimes… and know Ansel did...
Ephemeral View The Blog
Second Spring in the Rockies
After round #2 of the Moderna vaccine (thank you National Guard), we made our farewells to friends in Marathon, prepped Casita Grande and took one last trip down to the Bend, before heading off...
Hidden Treasures
Many before us discovered these precious places. They found them beautiful, fragile, unique, an aid to survival… and then worked to preserve and protect them. Treasures can be found in your own backyard if...
A Sense of Place
One component to this travel journey of ours was to be able to spend a length of time somewhere that we get to know it pretty well. Vacations are wonderful, but they are often...
On the Move
Nature seems easiest to capture when it holds still or moves super slowly. That’s why we have so many beautiful pictures of mountains, skies, trees etc. But we do fancy trying to film wildlife...
Non-Judgement
Right & Wrong. Sometimes it seems so important to define them. It is, however, part of our practice to notice when we might be judging something or someone, so we can recognize that it...
Transition to the High Desert
In some ways, it was hard to believe we had made our home at Enchanted Rock for 8 months. The original plan was for 3 months. But looking back now we find we filled...
Ode to the Rock
Over our eight months of living at Enchanted Rock, we saw many a season and change in weather from our window. While we snapped plenty of photos of this view, here is but a...
Talkin’ DIY: Part 2
So we did it. We moved into our custom designed Tiny House on Wheels (THOW). Now what? We needed a place to put it and a way to sustain being productive members of working...
Talkin’DIY: Part One
No, we didn’t build this house ourselves (though that would have been really cool if we’d felt we had the time, skills and resources.) But we did formulate this life change experiment ourselves through...