Blast to the Past
Hopscotch Playing in the driveway
Hopscotch has been around a few hundred years, and hopscotch on driveways used to be a girls game in our neighborhood when we were growing up. The game takes balance, co-ordination, and planning,...
Camel Time Cerrillos, New Mexico
At the Casa Grande trading post and museum in Cerrillos, New Mexico, there is also a small petting zoo for the kids. There were, this morning, some fowl and goats in the locked pens, and, oddly,...
A day in Cerrillos, New Mexico Just past Madrid, on the way to Santa Fe
In the 2000 U.S. Census, Cerrillos had 229 permanent residents. On the road between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and a few miles north of Madrid, another New Mexico ghost town, Cerrillos has even...
Highway 14 Between Madrid and Cerrillos, New Mexico
Highway 14 is a small ribbon of a road, two undulating lanes that roll and twist, that take traffic to Madrid and Cerrillos, New Mexico, and on to Santa Fe, or Albuquerque,...
Madrid, New Mexico in the Spring Good day for a Drive
" You an appraiser? " the ball capped man, leaning against a pickup, asks me as I stand in the street and take a photo of a house for sale. " No, " I say, " I'm just taking pretty...
Waffle House Shutdown Tramway/Central, Albuquerque, New Mexico
" We are not in the food business. We are in the people business. " Joe Rogers Sr. - Co founder of Waffle House Inc. says on their website. The Waffle House has been in business since 1955 and...
Watching the Fire During a power outage
Back in ancient days, cave men only had fires to keep them warm, and the skins of animals fashioned into clothes. We doubt all the women looked like Raquel Welch, but then the men...
Juggling At Meow Wolf Santa Fe, New Mexico
Inside Meow Wolf, there is a house, a mysterious house whose owners are no where to be found. They have their left artifacts; an old desk, an old saggy comfortable couch, a bathroom with toothbrushes still in the cup, closets with clothes hanging, a...
Remembering Ernie Ernie Pyle Library-Albuquerque
At an annual celebration of the famed World War 2 correspondent, Ernie Pyle, at his home in Albuquerque, N.M., a docent tells the small group about the permanent closing of Pyle's childhood home, in his birthplace,in Indiana. Ernie Pyle was a...
Creede, Colorado 19th century meets 21st century
Creede's reason for existence started and ended with silver. Rich mines were tunneled into the Earth and precious minerals were extracted. At one time Creede had 10,000 inhabitants. The population now is 290, the mines have played out, and the...
Sugar and Spice Mountain Bakery Westcliff, Colorado
On a Saturday morning, Westcliff is closed for business. The Sugar and Spice Bakery is one of the few places open in town this early and seven patrons are already lined up ahead of me getting something to eat. The two young women running the shop wear...
Amish wagon on the road to Westcliff, Colorado
We pass people every day. An old man with a cane shuffles past us in the grocery, squinting to read the fine print on a box label.Two little children pull on their mom's dress at the bank as she makes a deposit and reaches them a sucker out of a little...
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