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New Mexico Rail Runner Rapid transit in a horse and buggy state
The New Mexico Rail Runner is New Mexico's foray into mass transit in a state that is rural except for four larger cities along the Rio Grande north to south. In 2018, our entire population was just over two million. The impetus was to spend federal...
Out with the Old/In with the New At the " River of Lights "
Part of the Albuquerque Botanical Gardens " River of Lights " package, for $110.00 per couple, is cleansing souls. After the train ride, those who participate, write bad memories from the past year on a piece of paper, fold the paper, and toss it...
3 On A Match Albuquerque Sunport
This group belongs in cabarets in Berlin, London, Paris, after World War 2, without the smoke, SS Officers and floozies. A first response to new music is often to discount or find faults with it because it is new. Another response is to...
Cooped Up Stan's Chicken House
Stan has had back yard chickens for a few years. They weren't something he wanted as a childhood dream, but his adopted kids wanted chickens so he built them a first rate coop, feeds them, keeps their cage clean, and can't kill them because his daughter...
Sax Rats Play More- Video Old Town Holiday Stroll/ Albuquerque/Christmas 2018
Enjoy the music. https://youtu.be/pC6RMspJHho https://youtu.be/kJdWINfurs8 https://youtu.be/ET1S4ag_w1Y
Sax Rats- Video Holiday Stroll, Old Town, Albuquerque, 2018
People come to the Old Town Plaza for the annual Christmas Stroll, saunter down lumanaria lined sidewalks and blocked off streets, shop and eat, enjoy friends and family, stand under Christmas mistletoe, lick candy canes, and listen to street musicians.. If they like...
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, "...
Making the News KOAT, Channel 7, ABC, Albuquerque
Growing up in the 1950's, there were only three channels on our new black and white TV. The programming was sports, talent shows, westerns, game shows and nightly news.The broadcast day ended at midnight. In the 1960's,Johnny Carson got people to stay up...
Horned Toad Starbucks Parking Lot
Starbucks in my city are ubiquitous. For a couple of bucks for fresh coffee I can mingle with tech savvy people who lean towards globalism, free healthcare for all, living wage checks from Uncle Sam, electric cars. This morning, in my local...
Scotttreks 2019 Postcards
Begun in 2014, Scotttreks is a rolladex of Scott's time travels for those who remember what a rolladex looks like, what it was used for, how it was used, until computers sent them to antique auctions. Hot on Scotttrek's trail, I flip back to 2014, to...
Asia in Sandstone Amarillo College Museum
Some sculptures exhibited are behind glass, others are open to visitors to peer at closely, peek at the small shadows in the creases of the faces. Some of the work is utilitarian, made to ornament balustrades and pillars. Other works stood in temples...
Gallery of Asian Art Amarillo College, Amarillo
The Amarillo College Museum has several floors and this Friday, after Thanksgiving, Alan, Cousin Jim and Scott ,visit both floors. On the second floor, one of the museum's permanent exhibits features sculptures carved from sandstone dating from the 1st...
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