Holidays, Events & Celebrations
Embudo Canyon Hike Albuquerque's East Side
Our country is now on " lock down. " I've never been through a government ordered lock down where businesses are shut down, movement is restricted, banks are closed except for drive up...
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...
Albuquerque International Balloon Festival 2019 from the Juan Tabo picnic area, Tramway Boulevard/Rainbow Road, Albuquerque
The Albuquerque International Balloon Festival was begun in 1972. A local radio station, 770 KOB, which is still with us, was celebrating their 50th anniversary. They convinced Sid Cutter,...
R.I.P. Getting a tan
Halloween creeps closer as leaves start to fall, pumpkins appear in windows, hot air balloons arrive for the annual Balloon fest in Albuquerque, creepy spiders turn up in school cafeterias and jackets become more than optional. It is a sparkling day and...
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...
High Mountain Hay Fever Bluegrass festival Westcliff, Colorado
The High Mountain Hay Fever Bluegrass Festival runs July 10-13 at the Bluff and Summit Park in Westcliff, Colorado. A huge circus tent is set up in the town park with spectacular views of the mountains and valley nearby. In the 2010 census, the...
Playing the National Anthem LifeQuest Fundraiser Golf Tournament, Tanoan C.C., Albuquerque, 2019
The National Anthem is one of the most played songs in America. If you have played in school bands, military bands, marching bands, or are a musician who has performed at any sporting or public event, you have played the familiar melody since you were...
Police Band Zona Colonial Plaza Santo Domingo Event
The last police band i saw was in Cuenca, at a celebration for ex-pats and foreign business development in that Ecuadorian city. This Santo Domingo events aim is to support women and fight domestic violence in Latin America.This police band provides some...
Santa Plays his Sax Holiday Stroll, Albuquerque Old Town -2018
Sax Rats is our saxophone quartet - two alto saxes, a tenor sax, and a baritone sax. It is cold this evening as we load into Dan's van, drive down, set up, begin our first music set at the Holiday Stroll in Old Town, Albuquerque. " In college, "...
Turkey Time A Day of Thanks, 2018
Pots and pans are on the stove, the table has been set for three, a Butterball Turkey browns in the oven. It took four hours for this bird to cook and slicing it up on the kitchen counter means dinner is close. Alan, Sherrie, and I have Thanksgiving this...
StarBucks Break Coffee on skeleton crew
Halloween has crawled out of the grave for another year. At a local Starbucks, Freddie doesn't have to bone up on store policy, customer relations, or how to work the register. He hands out coffee and keeps his mouth shut because he rattles when he...
Flamingos A long way from home
Flamingos are often seen in front yards as plastic yard ornaments, and double as stir sticks in fancy lounge drinks. This evening, the Albuquerque zoo is hosting a music concert. Surrounding the stage, families and friends have spread umbrellas,...
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