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i have no place left to hide

 

Seriously, it’s really kind of hard to take a photo that’s not interesting when your travel/photography day includes Northern New Mexico.

I’m not bragging on my mad photography skills at all: it’s not me, but the place. It’s like Photo Magic™.

Santa Rosa de Lima ruins
near Abiquiu, New Mexico
photographed 7.3.2024

phantom

 

This dancer was popular with the crowd, who cheered them on during the performance.

Also: those tattoos! And that beard!

Santa Fe Pride
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 6.29.2024

dance party

  

How much fun were these dancers having?

They were having all the fun possible to have.

Santa Fe Pride
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 6.29.2024

bone density

My traveling companion: Look! There’s some kind of a carcass down there!”

Me (as I execute a pair of u-turns): Can we get down to it?

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Anyway, as you can see, we DID get down to it. And made photos, of course.

It was an elk skeleton. Unless it was a pterodactyl. There’s no way to tell: we’re not paleontologists or whatever. (My spouse, who is also not a paleontologist*, was kind enough to explain all the ways this WASN’T a pterodactyl…)

near Truchas, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2024

*He’s a Pilates instructor, which is very similar to being a paleontologist because both fields involve bones. Or something.

javier y la virgen

At one of the shrines at the sacred place, I saw a pair of tiny socks hanging with a rosary, a cord bracelet, a safety pin, and a medallion that says “Italy.” And sorrow – there seems to be a lot of sorrow there, too.

el santuario de Chimayó
Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2024