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November 4, 2010

Fall beauty

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October 17, 2010

Maize Maze

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Every September and October, the Albuquerque Maize Maze comes to life.

Don and I spent a glorious fall afternoon yesterday exploring the seven-acre corn maze. This year’s maze depicts wildlife found in Albuquerque and is called Coyote Magic.

We wandered leisurely through the maze for a couple of hours.

The maze is precisely cut by GPS technology. Very cool.

Morning glories were everywhere. They took my breath away. 

Beautiful.

 

September 23, 2010

The silver lining

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It rained like hell yesterday. We had two inches between noon and 5 pm, and it was still raining when we went to bed last night. Gads.

As we were rushing around yesterday evening to make sure everyone would be warm and safe and dry for the night (my mantra… everyone MUST be warm and safe and dry), look at what we discovered in the goat stall.

Three beautiful, perfect guinea eggs. A couple of guineas from next door seem to have moved in over the last week or so. 

We’re totally okay with that and figure their eggs were the silver lining in yesterday’s clouds. ♥

9/23 Note for Posterity: Meteorologists recorded 1.74 inches of rainfall at the Albuquerque International Sunport – the greatest amount in one day Since October 22, 1969.

 

September 19, 2010

Sunday Stills – Flags

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This flag is being carried on horseback by a member of the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Posse at the New Mexico State Fair rodeo.

Did you know?

Much of modern-day rodeo evolved from the working cowboy and his duties on the range. After months of moving cattle across the country, cowboys celebrated the end of their grind by roping more cattle and riding wild broncs for fun and friendly competition. It was from those informal, friendly competitions that on July 4, 1869, two groups of cowboys met to settle an argument over who was best at performing everyday ranch duties. This first competition was how the sport of rodeo evolved.

 

 

September 11, 2010

Saturday Stuff – Abiquiu

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I used one word repeatedly to describe where I was the last couple of days… gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.

Abiquiu. Georgia O’Keeffe lived here from 1949 until her death in 1986 at 98 years of age.

The landscape. The colors. The light. Gorgeous.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for. 

                                                                                                                       – Georgia O’Keeffe

 

 

September 8, 2010

The Energizer Bunny of Morning Bray Farm

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What a goober…

Work is taking me away for a couple of days to what is meant to be one of the most beautiful places in New Mexico… Georgia O’Keeffe country. I hope I’ll be able to bring back even an ounce of its beauty to share with you upon my return. ♥

 

September 7, 2010

So he’s a problem child…

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CeeCee‘s comment about squirrels eating her sunflowers prompted me to do some Lenny research over the weekend.

Turns out, Lenny’s a rock squirrel. Apparently, they’re considered a nuisance to many folks here… so much so that the New Mexico State University College of Agriculture published this: Controlling Rock Squirrel Damage in New Mexico.

Yikes. Poor Lenny.

Hmm… makes me wonder… have I been blaming the wrong four-leggeds for eating my flowers?

 

August 18, 2010

The land of enchantment

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New Mexico’s nickname is The Land of Enchantment.

This year, for the second year in a row, we returned to a bed and breakfast called Hacienda Vargas to celebrate our anniversary. It’s where we got married.

Like New Mexico, Hacienda Vargas is very enchanting. 

Hacienda Vargas is the only New Mexico inn along the historic El Camino Real.

It’s in a little town called Algodones, which is between Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

Algodones was originally founded as a military garrison to provide protection for the merchant wagon trains traveling on the El Camino Real between Santa Fe and Chihuahua, Mexico. As late as the 19th century, it was the site of a military supply depot and occupied by General Kearney and the Army of the West in 1846.

See the tiny heart at the top of this sunflower? Enchanting, don’t you think? ♥

Does the place you live have a nickname?

 

August 15, 2010

Sunday Stills – Smoke and fire – kind of

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There’s lots of excitement in New Mexico right now. It’s green chile harvest time.

Everywhere we go for the next few weeks, sacks of green chile will abound.

And we’ll see and smell it being roasted. The smell of green chile roasting is a beautiful thing. It makes you feel alive!

Yesterday was the first time we bought a sack of our own and had it roasted.

30 pounds of freshly picked green chiles were put into the chile roaster…

The fire was turned on…

…and the drum turned the green chiles over the fire for about four minutes. Then the chiles were rinsed…

…which created steam… sorry, no smoke for the challenge…

…and the end result of beautifully roasted green chiles.

Life is good. ♥

 

August 12, 2010

It’s 95 degrees and snowing

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Today’s forecast in Albuquerque is 95 degrees and mostly sunny. And snow.

From where does the snow fall, you wonder?

Have a peek up in the cottonwood tree across the way from us.

What we’re just now starting to see fall is the seeds from the fruits of this lovely tree.

It’s the fluffy white seeds of female cottonwoods that give the tree its name. And sure, they’re annoying and they make a mess. Without a doubt, we’ll find piles of seeds everywhere over the next few weeks.

We’ll get over it though. As summer changes to fall at Morning Bray Farm, the leaves of our cottonwoods will turn bright yellow, creating a remarkable contrast with our clear blue autumn skies. We won’t remember the snow then. ♥

 

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