Hummingbirds visit sweet nectar feeder at the gift shop on Sandia Crest, Albuquerque, NM, 2010. Weekly Photo Challenge
Category: New Mexico
Weekly Photo Challenge: Tour Guide
I live in a tourist destination, Albuquerque, NM, home of the International Balloon Fiesta, among other things. I thought I'd show you a few of the less well known things I love about Albuquerque for the Tour Guide photo challenge. The photo above is a view from my front yard of a double rainbow over …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silence- Women (and Men and Dogs) Who Won’t Be Silenced
Images from the Women's Marches, January 21, 2017 and 2018, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Weekly Photo Challenge
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silence
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 …
Weekly Photo Challenge: 2017 Favorites
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 …
Day Trip to White Sands National Monument
Over this past Thanksgiving weekend, Mr Metawitches and I took a day trip from Albuquerque down to the White Sands National Monument. The monument is adjacent to Alamogordo, NM and White Sands Missile Range, which will be familiar to history buffs as the location of the Trinity Site, where the first atomic blast in history …
Tucson, AZ and Saguaro National Park Weekend Trip
Over Labor Day weekend 2017 (the 1st weekend in September) we visited Saguaro National Park and stayed in Tucson, AZ. We'd waited until September to take this trip in hopes of avoiding the worst of the summer heat, but Mother Nature had other ideas, so we were out with the cacti and lizards in the 100˚+ …
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Albuquerque Old Town Salsa Fiesta
Today, 9/9/17, Albuquerque held its annual Salsa Fiesta in Old Town, the preserved section of an early part of the city, now dedicated to tourism and street festivals. The Salsa Fiesta included live music all afternoon in the plaza, and local salsa vendors making fresh salsa on site for today's competition for best salsa. Tasting …
