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Fall

 A hard freeze brings down all the leaves at once from our neighbor's mulberry tree.

I have been chasing the cranes all week and was able to get a bit closer to the birds at the Los Poblanos Open Space.

I don't have the proper gear for bird photography, but I enjoy watching these graceful big birds that spend the fall and winter near the river.

A New Start

 My maidenhair fern was in poor condition, so I cleaned out the terrarium and replanted it with invisibilium.

A drop in the bucket

 I got in the last word on the Nov. 16 edition of Joe Monahan's New Mexico Politics blog:

Reader Mike Connealy says:

Ronchetti's claim in his concession speech that "This campaign was a grassroots movement..." is laughable considering the big outside money that was poured into the campaign. Unfortunately, the Dems cannot claim the "grassroots" label either. It seems like an issue that both sides should get together on. 

This is the home of New Mexico Politics. 

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I'll try to come up with a more substantial analysis of the elections once the dust has settled. 

AOC; What's Not To Like?

 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is interviewed following the midterm elections by Ryan Grim at The Intercept.

Part 1:

Part 2:

AOC is always labeled an extremist by Republicans and often also by her own Party's establishment. 

She is for getting big money out of politics and for Congress over-riding the Supreme Court on Roe v. Wade, both positions supported by a majority of Americans.  So, that puts her in the Mainstream as far as I am concerned.

I am impressed by her fighting spirit, her intellect and her political acuity.  Those are qualities much to be valued right now.  Losing by a little should not be confused with winning.