Sunset on Granite St.

 

Two Natives

We planted a Desert Willow in front of our bedroom window about five years ago.  It is a popular yard tree all over the State because it requires little care and produces nice flowers.  The Desert Four O'clock also produces copious flowers early and throughout the Summer, but it is often seen as an invasive weed that is very hard to get rid of because of its deep tap root and rapid growth.  

 I am especially fond of both plants because it was such a treat to find them both in bloom during long hikes in the Chihuahuan Desert arroyos around where we lived in southern New Mexico.

End of an Era

 I've watched the restoration of 2926 since we came to Albuquerque nearly fifteen years ago.  I was unable to visit the site during the Covid years, but the work went on and now seems complete.

I'll hope to get some shots of the locomotive out on the tracks.

Albuquerque Museum Car Show

The Art Museum turns over its parking lot each year on a day in May to the car collectors who put on a fabulous show. It was a nice opportunity to try out my new cell phone camera.

My Air Museum

Visitors by appointment.



The collection is getting too big for the space, so we may have to seek new quarters soon. Perhaps we'll organize a fund-raising party, and the guests can dance among the aircraft to the tunes of Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller.

The earlier facility pictured below was built for me by my grandfather for the first Christmas I can remember in 1944. I don't remember playing much with the airplanes, but the hangar eventually got up-ended and used for the next decade as a toy box.