Hummingbirds visit sweet nectar feeder at the gift shop on Sandia Crest, Albuquerque, NM, 2010. Weekly Photo Challenge

Hummingbirds visit sweet nectar feeder at the gift shop on Sandia Crest, Albuquerque, NM, 2010. Weekly Photo Challenge
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …