White Sands National Monument, Allison at Fountain Hills Artsfest 2015

 White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico. Every where I looked there was a photo.  I got lost again. But this time I was smart enough to take a reading at the truck so I found my way back to the road with my compass.   60 degrees was direction I walked to find the road.

Allison and I went to the Fountain Hills Arts Festival outside Phoenix.  I bought her some earrings that used three ear piercings/ear. I might take all morning to get them in right. 

 White Sands sand dunes.  I got lost because I walked willy nilly back into the dunes at undesignated spots.  When I turned around everything looked unfamiliar. 

 Paul at the Mojave Desert.  John L and I went here to do the wind mills.  The cactus's were called Joshua Tree.

White Sand in White Sands NM

White Sands National Monument near Las Cruses NM





It looks like snow drifting across he access road but really its the ground up gypsum the white sands are comprised of. It's not really like sand at the Pacific and Atlantic beaches its more like some kind of power.


In New Mexico they have these customs inspection stations 100 miles from the Mexico border. The inspectors had fire arms.


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Location:Las Cruses NM

Setting Pacific Sun, Guiseppe, Morning Light Pasadena Ca

 Morning light in Pasadena.

 Guiseppe and Giovanni picking up the pizza.

 Malibu sunset.

 Lincoln Zephyr 1938 hotrodded.

Haircut, Malibu, Trains, Julie & Queenie

John and I went to the Majove Desert to see the airplane graveyard but it was a bust so we shot some trains as they went past.  

 Apparently in L.A. the barber comes to your house instead of you going to them. This is Cindy and John on the back porch.

 Splashing waves at Malibu yesterday. 

Julie and Queenie on the back porch at night. 

Pasadena Ca

John and Julie's kitchen. Lots of cool atmosphere. Pasadena Ca.



John took me to a Malibu beach during the sun set and I tried to get some splashing wave photos.












-John and Paul at Von's Grocery Store.

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Location:Grace Ter,Pasadena,United States

In Pool, Frontier Restaurant, Snow Santa Fe

 In the whirlpool at Tamaya Resort 930pm Fri.  I love this part.  It's 45F outside (I'm outside ) the water is hot.   The whirling is turned off at this moment but I turn it on and look at the stars.  I could  see Gemini even through my foggy glasses.

Above:
After the whirlpool I took some photos of the pool. I love the fog. I shot a number of pictures. I was a little worried I was going to get called on it because 100 hotel windows face the pool.   "Hey Sylvia, there's a weird guy in wet TJ Max running shorts shooting photos of the pool in the dark. Shall I call someone?"
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Frontier Restaurant Albuquerque NM. This is where all the Univ/NM students eat lunch and do some homework. I had #1 on the breakfast menu but I substituted a pancake for some Mexican thing I didn't understand.


There was 1.5" of snow on 'Ol Bessy the other morning in Santa Fe. 7000 feet above sea level. Taos is 9000'.


I'm attending Soularize at Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort. It's a spiritual program of 3 days duration. It can be challenging at times because we are made to go into our shadow and deal with things (so to speak). It's works for me. The rituals can be powerful. Mostly the other participants are clergy or people that dedicate their lives to helping others spiritually. The fellow at lunch today was describing what it's like doing centering prayer for the inmates at Folsum Prison in Calif. He's been doing it for years.  We get up with the sun, walk across this field and do meditation/contemplation (praying in silence) after a dedication type talk. There is a lot of frost on everything.


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Location:Bernalillo NM

The Shed Santa Fe, Indy 500 Garage, Arcade Manitou Springs

 Arcade area Manitou Springs.  Note the silver haired model (self timer & tripod used). There was quite a number of vintage arcade games like skeeball, punching bag and pin ball filling up 4 separate buildings all under a large wooden roof.  There was a lot of old time atmosphere. 1950's -1960's I estimate.

 Desk at Indy 500 Racetrack.  1970's era actual race car shop.  Very cool atmosphere. It's was like going back in time.

 Indy 500 RaceTrack.  1970's actual race car and garage.

 Abandoned lumber yard.  Wilson Kansas.  I walked around the town some before I ate at Grandma's.

I had #11 special, taco and enchilada at The Shed in Santa Fe NM.  The building is 400 years old
it was first occupied  by a Spanish officer and family that was attempted to suppress local native indian uprisings.They resisted Spanish rule for a while and then they gave in.

Skunk attack, Hotel Kachina, Taos Pueblo

Well it didn't go so well last night.  At about 11pm out in the parking lot of the Hotel Kachina I heard two dogs fighting.  15 minutes later the smell of skunk entered my room.   In the morning I saw what happened.  Behind my truck was a skunk with his insides on the outside. There was blood on my truck and my Ducati.  The clerk at the hotel desk got into a wordsfight with the janitor who said it wasn't his problem.  I washed the truck but it still smells inside.  The skunk was still there when I left two hours later. No pictures of that.  I figured no one would want see skunk guts.

 Down the hall to the Kachina Inn Cafe.  Biscuits and gravy day one and Spanish Omelette day two.

 Taos Pueblo blue doors.  I intentionally included alot of sky.

 This dog laid here for 2-3 hours and never moved. He's not dead.

I shot the camera out level so too much foreground is there. I'll crop that off.  I shot it out level so as not to distort the building.

Camels and Mirages Pueblo Taos

Waiting for my omelette to arrive Kachina Inn NM

 I spent 4 hours shooting up a storm at Pueblo Taos today. I pretty much had the place to myself until a tour bus arrived at about 4pm.

 This is Great Sand Dunes.  This photo is from my big camera. Everywhere I turned was a new photo and as the sun set it start all over, everything was new.  What an odd atmosphere.  I could have been in the Sahara desert or Egypt I wouldn't know the difference...except for the camels and mirages I suppose.

Drama in the Dunes

I hiked to the top of the highest sand dune in N.America and ate my turkey/cheese sandwich and surrounded a Beck's. I shot photos for hours until the sun set. But then I got lost. I was four rows of dunes in and when I tried to walk out I went over 8 rows of dunes. By that point it was really dark and I couldn't find the spot I was supposed to cross the stream.














I was 'rescued' by a young couple. They had a GPS and they found the parking lot for me. They said they were getting married tomorrow. I got an email from them just now with my picture on top of a sand dune.

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Location:Great Sand Dunes National Park Colorado