The Albuquerque Tribune: Visual Arts
The bird man of the Manzanitas
By Ollie Reed Jr.
TIJERAS – Jess Alford is sitting in his living room on a recent, gray, chilly morning, sucking in the warmth from a wood-burning stove and a steaming cup of green tea as he watches the fluttered comings and goings of birds just outside the windows of his Manzanita Mountains home.

“When I lived in Dallas, I had to drive 200 to 250 miles to get out of development,” he says. “Here, I’m on the edge of the Cibola National Forest. I just have to walk out the door to be in nature.”

Which is where, Alford, 71, has decided he wants to be, where he needs to be…..

[mjh: the article is good; so are the pix]