At the solstice looking back

We just passed the winter solstice. I hope you are all having a happy and healthy holiday.
I'm pretty lazy so I'll just post dome pictures from this past fall.

Monsoon Season was a bust as far as rainfall was concerned but we got a late reprieve  from the dry weather and had some impressive rainfall a month or so later. The skies are not cloudy all day but when they do cloud up it is often impressive.

 These are front porch pictures...

Balloon Fiesta 2017 -- more front porch pictures.

Fall up in the Jemez Mountains and on the Ojito Wilderness and White Mesa.

Old dunes

Battleship Rock

 Jemez river

Winged Victory

 Red rock - Jemez canyon

Botanical Garden (Biopark) -- the last roses of summer still blooming as they installed the Christmas lights.  The Japanese Garden is always a treat.

Trip to Deming and Las Cruces...Organ Mountains National Monument -- Trump and his minions want to diminish the monument.
RESIST!

The basilica church in Mesilla

Giant Roadrunner watches over Las Cruces.

The opulent Amtrak station in Deming, New Mexico.

Twinkle Light Parade -- Albuquerque's quirky Christmas parade. This really is a small town.

Hasta la vista

Summer Shots 2017

A random selection of recent shots over the last few weeks. All in New Mexico within 30 miles of home.

Sunset storm -- looking toward Mt. Taylor

Queen Anne's Lace -- I didn't know it grew in New Mexico

He posed for quite a while

The clouds parted and the clearest shot came into view

From Sandia Crest

Sandia Crest

All this and still no cell coverage...Can you hear me now?

Look very closely

Afternoon clouds near Budaghers (NM)

Silverleaf Nightshade - Poisonous native plant

Mormon Battalion Monument...I've passed this 100 times and never stopped. (At Budaghers)

Apparently the Mormons sent a battalion of men to New Mexico during the Mexican War.

Monsoon clouds building over the Ortiz Mountains

Only in New Mexico -- jolly dead musicians