Some pictures from winter break. Hope you enjoy!
December 19
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| no idea why this rock is strung up from the wire |
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| definitely grassland |
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| wind turbines on Tsoodzil (Mt. Taylor) |
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| this was a surprise stumble-upon |
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| abandoned Mustang in the mountains |
December 20
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| chilling with Ravi at the smoothie cafe (phone pic) |
December 22
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| meeting a friend for a movie showing at The Guild (phone pic) |
December 23
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| out in the Beyond... |
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| ... but not so far beyond [the reaches of suburbia] |
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| the Council |
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| fascinating (& somewhat festive) root wad |
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| the texture of these roads |
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| trying to find some explanation for how these ended up here |
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| well, guess I should be building out here if this is where the materials are |
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| mini dunes |
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| up on the Three Witches hill |
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| (looks like an eye and a beak) |
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| Guía de las Perdidas, or, how I found my way when I was lost |
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| fording one of many phantom-river canyons |
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| Horseshoe Hill |
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| HH, cont. |
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| "close to home, far from ordinary" |
December 25
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| Shopping Cart Slope |
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| remnants of a camp |
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| that out-of-focus dot roughly in the center is the shopping cart |
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| a weird sort of throne |
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| the sandy sea before the Council |
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| Council panorama 1 |
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| Council panorama 2 |
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| the sandy sea, cont. |
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| the Sangre de Cristo mountain range |
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| why would anybody do this? |
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| the wild desert is infinitely more entertaining than television, I agree |
(the rest of the photos from here on are taken on my phone)
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| birthday boys with new instruments (made by my brother) |
December 26
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| I thought this would be a good idea... until it wasn't |
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| our Kwanzaa setup (2nd year celebrating) |
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| happy day of Umoja! |
December 27
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| walking with Dad through the slushy streets of Santa Fe |
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| inside the capitol building |
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| views, I |
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| ooh, so fancy |
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| views, II |
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| ate lunch at this place, which serves African cuisine |
December 28
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| the symbol of Ujima |
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| a hilariously terrible fake Kwanzaa greeting card I made on PicsArt |
December 29
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| perfect time to put these stamps to use |
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| light and (ice and) shadow |
December 30
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| a tiny snowman my brother made for my mom (yes, we did actually get snow) |
And here's a bonus selfie from today! Happy new year, and the best to everyone in 2019!
