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More photos from Santa Fe

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Taking photos in Santa Fe is like cheating.  You just point the camera out the back door and voila!

{Image: two bare trees, very slender with white bark against a very deep blue sky.}

Disc Golf Henge:

{Image: snowy field with four small (approximately one-foot-tall) rock formations each in the shape of an inverted "U"}

Fence.

{Image: fence made of vertical pieces of natural wood of varying heights. In the bottom half of the photo, the wood slats are backed by a solid piece of wood. In the top half of the photo, there is nothing behind the vertical slats, and the sun peeks through between two of the slats.}

Fence, HDR.

{Image: fence made of vertical pieces of natural wood of varying heights. In the bottom half of the photo, the wood slats are backed by a solid piece of wood. In the top half of the photo, there is nothing behind the vertical slats, and the sun peeks through between two of the slats.}

Barbed wire, HDR:

{Image: close up of a photo of a single barb in a strand of barbed wire. In the background, and out of focus, is the side of an adobe building.}

I couple of friends we met on our walk.

{Image: A goat peers around the corner of a wood and wire fence. To his left are three chickens, two black and one white.}

Window.  Almost anything looks good in adobe.  Ask Santa Fe!  I think it’s in the building code!

{Image: a window in an adobe wall. The window reflects a very blue sky. Tree branches enter the photo from the right.}

Water spout:

{Image: a flat water spout protrudes from an adobe wall with several feet of frozen water suspended off the end.}

The same water spout, an hour later:

{Image: a flat water spout protrudes from an adobe wall with several feet of frozen water suspended off the end. The adobe is much darker than the previous photo because of the setting sun.}}

Hubble the Golden Retriever discovers that Rodney has a snack.

{Image: in the left side of the photo, a man sits at a table working at a laptop computer. To his right, a golden retriever stares intently at him. The corner of another laptop shows in the foreground; kitchen appliances are in the background. The table has a candle, a water bottle, a card and envelope, a french press with tea and a mug,}

And it wouldn’t be my blog unless I took the opportunity to go just a bit Andy Rooney on your ass.   My rental car was a Prius.  Even after I learned the sequence of button pushing and gear shifting that was necessary to make it go, and adjusted to the fact that it sounded, at every light, like the car had died and I’d need to call a tow truck, there were two more very disconcerting things.

(1)  You don’t need a key to drive the car but you do need a key to unlock it.  This means that when you get in the car, you have to figure out what to do with the key, since it’s not sitting in the ignition.  If I owned a Prius, I would lock the keys in the car at least once per week.

(2) You not only get the general warm, fuzzy, superior feeling of driving a really fuel-efficient car, you get a constant, real-time, animated demonstration of just HOW efficient you’re being:

{Image: photo of a diagram of a car showing three unnamed parts with arrows going from one to another. The diagram is labeled "Energy Monitor." The display also contains the time (3:16 PM) and the odometer (2837.4 MI).}

This little animated diagram changes as you drive, showing — near as I can tell — which direction the little energy hamsters that power the car are traveling.   The diagram is (a) designed for the driver to monitor the car’s energy situation in real time, and thus incredibly distracting and unsafe; (b) not designed to convey anything to the driver, and thus pretty pointless; or (c) designed solely to show the passenger what a cool, energy-efficient person the driver is.

I love the West

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I flew to Albuquerque this afternoon.  Now hanging at the airport to meet my stepfather and drive up to Santa Fe for my stepbro’s 50th birthday.   Quick flight, but I chose a window seat on the right side of the plane so I could play with the camera.  The views reminded me why I’m such a happy immigrant to the Mountain Time Zone.

This accidental shot that turned out to be a good bookend for the start of the trip.

{Image: photo of the photgrapher's feet taken looking straight down. Feet are in hiking shoes; jeans and the end of a scarf are also visible, as are two pieces of luggage.}

Fly Frontier! Until They Go Bankrupt!

{Image: photo taken from the window of a plane. In the right foreground is the engine with the legend "FlyFrontier.com." In the background, snow covered foothills.}

Couple of photos from the plane:

{Image: photo taken from a plane of a river with snow-covered banks.}

{Image: Photo of mesas taken from plane.}

{Image: photo of mesas taken from plane.}

Little bit of a bumpy landing:

{Image: photograph of clouds taken from airplane.}

The Albuquerque airport.  The light and coloring in the west are so amazing, even the airport is beautiful.

{Image: photo of airport taken from the runway. The building is a light pink adobe and the jetways are all turquoise. To the right of the jetways, the building contains large mirrored windows in the shape of New Mexico's state symbol.}

Now ensconced in the Sunport’s faux western workspace, pretending to edit a brief (hi, co-counsel!) while in fact playing with photos and receiving regular Bronco updates from Tim.

On the road again!

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Road trip to Cañon City, then on to Santa Fe.  Here are some photos from the road.  Santa Fe photos coming soon.

I’ve made the trip to Cañon City with co-counsel a number of times to visit clients at one of its correctional facilities.  The cool thing about driving alone is that I finally got to stop and take a picture of this, Route 115 between Colorado Springs and Cañon City.

 

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Did they find the giant insect while exploring space?  Unfortunately, as you can see from the sign, the museum is currently closed, so that question will have to be answered some other day.

I spent much of the drive on back roads, which provided constant reminders why I love the West.  This is from Route 50 heading out of Cañon City.

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This from Route 522 in northern New Mexico.

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This from I-25 north of Pueblo heading back to Denver.

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From a grocery store in Fort Garland, CO

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I loved the drive and the quality time with my brother in Santa Fe.  Good to be back home in front of the Broncos game now.