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BioPark Tribute...

11/23/2016

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I've enjoyed visits the the ABQ BioPark more now that I can take my kiddo along. We often want to go to different parts of the park, or stay in different areas longer, but no matter where we end up, I enjoy the time we spend together - at the BioPark, or wherever we end up.
Here are a few shots from this summer that sat around collecting metaphorical dust until today :)
child silhouette in tube slide
locust close up
peach colored flower on salt stained concrete
newly emerged atlas moth
striped blue whiptail lizard with pink flowers
succulent blooming and with seedpods forming
caterpillar posing
While I'm not always thrilled about animals in captivity (and therefore spend much more of my visits to the BioPark at the Botanic Gardens and Tingley Beach), I do appreciate the fact that we have an awesome set-up for our city, and are very fortunate to have such an amazing array of microcosms just a short drive away.
I am excited that I'll have some of my photos (none of these in this post) featured in the 2017 ABQ BioPark Calendar! (You can purchase one HERE.)
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Meow Wolf, revisited...

11/17/2016

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neon flowers bear shoes
A couple of friends were visiting, staying with us for a while. (This was several months ago - gives you an idea of the sorry state of my personal edits at the moment, but I'm slowly catching up! Better late than never.) We took a field trip out to Santa Fe, mostly for Meow Wolf, because that place is crazy-awesome!
neon bricks and grids at meow wolf
black and white cartoon room with mounted deer head meow wolf
glowing scorpions in case meow wolf
owl flies through neon trees meow wolf
neon housing development with toys at meow wolf
couple hugs in front of line burst painting meow wolf
woman stands under portal window meow wolf
alien hallway at meow wolf travel center
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White Sands and Black Lights... 

11/16/2016

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At the end of the summer this year, we took a camping trip out at White Sands National Monument. We left home in the dark in the morning so we could arrive at the park as it opened to reserve our spot - to beat off the droves of other wannabe campers... We were the first ones to reserve a spot. After securing our space, we were informed that the Monument would be closed until the afternoon due to missile testing, so we all headed back into Alamogordo to get breakfast. Either the service was incredibly slow, or we took a really long time to eat (a combination of the two, I think), but after two hours at breakfast, we were ready to go find something else to do. Driving in, I'd seen a big rocket up on the hillside and we learned that it was located at the Space museum. Considering the only other attraction I'd seen was a dilapidated, rather depressing-looking zoo, we opted to give the museum a shot. My favorite part was the yard outside, with a plethora of obsolete rockets and other things we'd propelled into orbit or used to spy on or blow up people in other countries.

After our rather anticlimactic museum visit, we got in the cars and once again started driving, this time up into the mountains to Cloudcroft. We took a walk in the forest after the initial downpour, then played at a playground and searched for something to eat. We didn't find anything that was open or appealing, so headed back down to Alamogordo to get food and some extra supplies, making it back just in time to be in the long line of traffic for folks heading into the dunes to catch the sunset. After we got checked in, we went in search of our campsite, which we never found, so we set up our tent where we ended up, and pretty much parked there for the night. We ate more snacks and I took some pictures of the full moon as it was rising, but it was eaten by clouds shortly thereafter. The child decided he wanted to go home right then, he didn't want to stay there, he "likes our house." After explaining that we are going back home, just not tonight, he seemed to begin to enjoy his first camping experience. I watched the lightning strike all around us. The night was so still and quiet, except for the occasional rumble of thunder. Much later, the clouds dissipated and the moon shone down in full force. The gypsum dunes gleamed in the moonlight. It was quite a sight to behold. We wandered around, not too far from the tent; wanderers at midnight. The black light flashlight that was meant to pick out the hordes of scorpions waiting to strike our bare feet was instead used for black light painting for some long exposure portraits (no scorpions were to be seen - just dozens of little black beetles, in stark contrast to the sand, and strangely attracted to my feet, leaving long trails of little footsteps in the sand behind them). Eventually we fell asleep.

I awoke at dawn and went out for a walk on the dunes, alone. It was beautiful, with the subtle morning light and the amazing shadows along the crests of the dunes, the tiny rivulets of sand snaking their way across the sides. I wandered far from the tent, losing sight of any familiar landmark, though never feeling lost or losing heart; my internal compass working to guide me where I needed to go.

Arriving back at the tent, we got the sand disks and slid down the sides of the dunes before we started packing up for the journey back to the car. We found a white cell phone someone had dropped on the road and turned it in at the ranger station. After some stops along the highway (giant pistachios and the odd lone-cowboy grave - he was struck by lightning), we headed north for home.
echo woman speaking into amplifying disk
Echo Woman
New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo
thistle buds in Cloudcroft New Mexico
father holds son on shoulders, son holds hands over one of fathers eyes and mouth
man in peacock pose on top of jungle gym
train bridge in Cloudcroft New Mexico
full moon rising over white sands national monument
blacklight painted portrait in white sands
blacklight painted yoga portrait in white sands
blacklight painted yoga portrait in white sands
ghostly long exposure nighttime portrait
plant with magenta flowers growing in white sands national monument
white gypsum dunes and clouds at sunrise
Yin Yang dunes and sky
beetle and footprint trail in white sands national monument
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portrait of woman with purple glasses and gold umbrella in white sands national monument
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