Madrid, NM
Summer 2009

Taos Pueblo - Summer of 2013
I took this photo on what I laughingly call "My chemo liberation tour".  The day after my last chemo treatment Dana and I jumped in the truck and headed out on a 3000 mile road trip to New Mexico.  Best medicine I could have had at the time.

 

 

 

Long time no see! 

Its been a while since I have posted anything to my blogs.  Two years ago I was diagnosed with Stage 2 Breast Cancer but after surgery and chemotherapy I have been cancer free for 2 years,  Last summer I traveled home to Santa Rosa, NM for my 40th class reunion.  It was a wonderful trip with time spent with the best people I know.  While in New Mexico I took Dana up to Sandia Crest.  On the east side of Albuquerque (and two miles high) I took this photo.  You can see the edge of the city if you look closely. If you've never been up there I encourage you to go, its breath taking.  

La Placita - Albuquerque, NM

La Placita Restaurant on the plaza in Old Town Albuquerque - what I wouldn't give to be having lunch there today...or any day..or better yet - everyday.  Fantastic food and wonderful artwork - feed your body and you soul  at the same time.  I love this place.  Originally Casa de Armijo, I can only imagine what a beautiful home this must have been.  I think I was born about 100 years too late.

Blue Hole - Santa Rosa, NM

Truly the gem of Guadalupe County...okay, its at least one of the gems.
Blue Hole is a natural beauty - a sink hole 80 feet deep that is feed by an underground spring. 3000 gallons of water per minute accounts for the water being crystal clear. On the hottest summer afternoon or the coldest winter morning this miracle maintains a year round temperature of 64 degrees. Divers from all over visit this charming little spot. I will admit to doing a little photoshop editing to eliminate any signs of humans in order to create the Blue Hole of my memory and my dreams.

Happy Easter

Taos, New Mexico

Christmas in New Mexico 2011

I was blessed to travel by train to New Mexico for Christmas. This photo was taken from the train as we past through the Ortiz Mountains.

I'm so ready for spring and summer to get here!

Taos, New Mexico

Vaughn, New Mexico 2010

>Sometime I Feel Like a Motherless Child

from « American Negro Spirituals»
by J. W. Johnson, J. R. Johnson, 1926

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long ways from home
A long ways from home
True believer
A long ways from home
Along ways from home

Sometimes I feel like I’m almos’ gone
Sometimes I feel like I’m almos’ gone
Sometimes I feel like I’m almos’ gone
Way up in de heav’nly land
Way up in de heav’nly land
True believer
Way up in de heav’nly land
Way up in de heav’nly land

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long ways from home
There’s praying everywhere

Pecos River in Santa Rosa, New Mexico

Home for Christmas 2010

We decided at the spur of the moment to go to New Mexico for Christmas.  What  beautiful New Mexico weather we had.  in the 50's the entire time.  Reminded me of a special Christmas from my past when my best friend Marilyn and me hiked out to Table Top (mesa) on Christmas Eve.

Colonias, New Mexico

These are some photo's from our 2007 trip home.

In the light of the full moon.. (CDR)

Santa Fe

Adobe and Blue Shutters

Happy Easter

Digitally altered photograph of the Santa Inez Chapel in Puerta de Luna, New Mexico
Natural photograph of Santa Inez Chapel in Puerta de Luna, New Mexico

Today is Easter and the wind is howling. What's amusing is that it actually makes me feel at home way up here in Missouri.

New Mexico springs are not polite. The wind reminds me of an old woman with a new broom sweeping the house clean on Saturday for company on Sunday.....an old woman mad at an old man...

I can remember walking to school or to town and the warm spring New Mexico wind whipping stinging sand across my legs. Heaven help you if a dust devil crossed your path.

I vividly remember sitting in my fathers cafe and watching the wind roll huge tumble weeds town Sunshine Hill. The force of the gale would wedge them under automobiles in the parking lot.

Easter in New Mexico is seldom church hat friendly. Barbecues are a struggle, egg hunts are completed swiftly and the multitude of relatives are usually crowed into your kitchen because the lawn chairs blew away before the food could be served.

Still, its encouraging to know that the beautiful New Mexico summr days are on thier way. So we chase paper plates across the back yard and look forward with joy.

I'm tired of white snow and gray skies!

I need a strong dose of New Mexico color.

I'm tired of wet cold weather and gray ground, gray trees and gray skies

I want to be where there is color!

May 2010 open the door to a whole world of possibilities

Happy New Year!