The hoodoos of Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah. There was a storm rolling in on the day we visited, so you can see the thick clouds and deep shadows in the distance in some of the photos. Hoodoos are pillars of rock created by erosion. There are hoodoos all over the world, …
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Images from the Women's Marches, January 21, 2017 and 2018, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Weekly Photo Challenge
Shiprock, or Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" in Navajo, stands alone in the northwestern New Mexico desert. It is within the Navajo Nation, and is sacred to their people, playing a part in many Navajo legends. Shiprock is a volcanic formation, made of rocks that solidified underground in the throat of a volcano about 27 million …
These are photos of an old shipwreck that's been weathered by the sea off the coast of Aruba. I photographed it when we went for a ride in a tourist submarine in December, 2011. Weekly Photo Challenge
Tolly, a Barred Plymouth Rock chicken, at one week old, with her sisters from our first batch of chicks. She's now 6½ years old and still the queen of the coop. If you look closely, you can see that her baby fluff has already turned into tiny feathers on her wing. Weekly …
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens * Adapted by Richard Hellesen * Music by David de Berry * Directed by Melissa Rain Anderson * DCPA Theatre Company at the Stage Theatre, 12/20/17 Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843. It quickly became such a success that the novella hasn't been out of print since. …
This is a wild juvenile roadrunner, the state bird of New Mexico. For a few weeks this summer, this guy kept following smaller wild birds through the small (5' long x 1' tall) tunnel that my backyard chickens use to move between their coop and run in the backyard and their free range space in …
These are dinosaur tracks on a steep hillside in the uplifted rock layers at Dinosaur Ridge, outside of Denver, CO. Runner up: Slightly different view of the same tracks. This photo isn't as clean as the first, but I like the addition of man-made elements, which give the sense of the tracks ascending through …
This is Max (below). He's very old, going on 15. He's usually in this position, in other words, sleeping, unless someone says his name and the word "walk' in the same sentence. Then suddenly he's a puppy again. Otherwise he's within 5 feet of wherever I am in the house or yard, 10 feet at …
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We are Cathy and Sarah, a mother and daughter pair who live in the high desert in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This blog will be the place for us to post our lighthearted, frivolous hobby and interest sorts of posts. Some of our interests include gardening, travel, wildlife watching, cooking, painting furniture, chickenkeeping, music, and trying out homemade personal care recipes.
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