I spent a week in New Mexico last spring. While I was busy making photos, the seasons were turning. I didn’t notice.

That is, I didn’t notice until the other day, when I was looking back through my images. Here’s a tree from the first day I was there – no leaves at all.

This image was made three days later, and the trees are just starting to bud.

I like the way this images blends the seasons in a typically New Mexican way – today’s newly budded trees sharing the space with ristras of last fall’s red chile crop.

Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015