Best NM line of the weekend
From the quotable NewMexiKen.
Regarding the Obama rally held in Albuquerque last night:
“If 40,000 people were at the Obama rally, while it lasted the rally was the 7th largest city in the state of New Mexico.”
Category: New Mexico
Going to Carlsbad in my mind
Yeah, I just said that. Okay, maybe not actually Carlsbad, but near Carlsbad.
For a while back in the day (also called “the college years”) my folks lived in Carlsbad. Meaning I spent holidays and summers there.
Have ya’ll been to Carlsbad? No, not the caverns, those aren’t actually in town. Actual Carlsbad. Where are my southeastern New Mexico people? You know what I’m talkin’ about.
Yeah. Carlsbad.
So with those dull days in mind, while my mom resided in fabulous downtown Carlsbad, she sought to find ways to get OUT of Carlsbad.
One of the places she took me, one hot summer day, was a location called Sitting Bull Falls. Yes, in the middle of the desert, a glorious oasis with an 130 foot waterfall.
Gorgeous!
What got me waxing about such a wonderful (cooooool) place?
Well, first, it’s been a hard day. Bleary eyed I scanned the Las Cruces Sun News and followed *this* link.
To my surprise, I found a nice write up about Sitting Bull Falls! Nestled deep in the Lincoln National Forest, it’s a beautiful and surprising destination in the, uh, middle of no-frickin’-where.
(When you are a NM kinda person, the corner of no-frickin’-where and BFE is a party destination!).
So on this bleary, sad, hard day, I went to Sitting Bull Falls in my mind.
I remembered a really good day. A break from the oppressive heat. Natural beauty. And relaxing. It was a nice mental vacation.
I sort of doubt I’ll ever be back that way again in person…so the best I can do is go to Sitting Bull Falls in my mind.
Ahhhh.
Stop the world and let me off
Lots of weirdity going on in the world. Lots of changes, flip outs, oddness.
Market up. Market down. New president in a month.
And I think I’m changing jobs soon. Whoa Nellie!
Funnily enough, there is some comfort in my reading the ABQjournal during these crazy times.
Guess what? The Saturday Balloon Fiesta’s mass ascension didn’t happen! Too windy!
Reeeeally? That almost never always happens!
Oh Fair New Mexico, granting me comfort during troubled times.
May your winds blow gustily over the middle Rio Grande Valley and may the annual scent of roasting green chiles waft my way.
A quiet place to rest
Yesterday at work I had a meeting in a nearby building. I decided to be all eco-friendly and stuff and walk over.
As I toodled along, I was surprised to come across this:
I found it…peculiar.
It’s a nice cement bench with detailed Fish and Wildlife stuff about the “creek” that lay there in view of the bench (behind the, uh, chain link fence).
Here’s an unobstructed view of the “creek” from a small bridge.
(yes, the quotes around “creek” are on purpose)
Folks, where I come from, we call that an arroyo.
And we don’t sit by it and watch the weeds grow. We just don’t.
Is this like the LA river, where, to quote Wikipedia: “For most of its length, it flows through a narrow concrete channel?”
Does something that flows through a concrete channel really qualify as a river (or creek)?
I found it strange, on this walk, to find one random bench with a view of…a weed filled arroyo.
Truth really is stranger than fiction.
Photos by Karen Fayeth and her trusty iPhone
New Mexico! Saaaalute!
Guess who hit the big time?
Our Fair New Mexico, that’s who.
It’s a sure sign we’re mooooving on up when New Mexico gets name checked in a list of “America’s Favorite Cities” published by Travel & Leisure magazine.
So what’d category did we get?
Most good looking?
Nope. Miami.
Okay, okay…fair enough. Best City for a Wild Weekend?
Oh hell no. Las Vegas (the OTHER one) and New Orleans got that.
Friendly? Surely we’re ALL OVER this category?
No. Charleston.
Smart?
No. Seattle.
Oh COME ON! What’d we win!?!?!
“…peace and quiet is easiest found in Santa Fe, New Mexico…”
Oh. Well, okay. At *least* we got a mention.
“…Santa Fe, New Mexico, which also came in last in all nightlife categories.”
Oh my. Well ok.
They CLEARLY have not been to The Bull Ring when the legislature is in session! That’s all I’m going to say about THAT!
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Quiet is good…right?
