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Rocking Horse For the Grandkids

Rocking Horse For the Grandkids

    In Charlie's front entry, his project materials are carefully spread on the floor. There are drills and hammers, paint brushes, screwdrivers, scissors and a set of instructions, if needed.  In Charlie's newest project, the rocking horse rockers are...

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Medical Blues Douglas Hospital

Medical Blues Douglas Hospital

    This is not a happy tale. Broken in a car crash ,Chris, flown by helicopter to the hospital trauma unit, is fed through a tube, breaths through a tube,has a sensor pinned into the top of his shaved head to reveal brain activity. Staff shift his body...

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Storage Wars Moving paintings

Storage Wars Moving paintings

    Paintings come in all sizes according to the shape of an artist's vision.  Many artists begin painting using pre-stretched canvases you can buy at Hobby Lobby, then matriculate to larger sizes,then begin stretching  their own canvas over...

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Snakes At the Rattlesnake Museum

Snakes At the Rattlesnake Museum

    Snakes don't have fingers, toes, arms, or legs. They are coldblooded and need sun to get stirring. Cultures throughout human history have worshiped them, reviled them, and eaten them. For photography and curiosity reasons, Joan, visiting from Boston, has...

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The Gang’s All Here McDonald's

The Gang’s All Here McDonald's

    Five o' clock a.m. comes early and us boys head to the McDonalds at Lomas and Juan Tabo in Albuquerque most every morning of the week. Some of us read the newspaper, others do crosswords, some eat, most drink coffee, most tell jokes that are occasionally...

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Golf in a Cow Pasture Chasing Par

Golf in a Cow Pasture Chasing Par

    River Falls has a make believe golf course in a cow pasture not far from the Texas Palo Duro Canyon. This area has been transformed from grazing to ranchettes. With an airport, five acre lots, utilities and roads, the development attracts people with...

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Calling Dr. Who Payphone on way to Creed,Colorado

Calling Dr. Who Payphone on way to Creed,Colorado

    Doctor Who has the most unique phone booth in the Universe. but on our way back to Creede, Colorado, Richard's idea is to stop and pay respects to one of the last pay phones in America. On site, Richard and I both pick up the phone and listen to the dial...

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Cumbres Toltec Railroad Back to yesteryear

Cumbres Toltec Railroad Back to yesteryear

    Highway 285 winds it's way through Espanola, Ojo Caliente, Tres Piedras, Antonito, and eventually Alamosa, Colorado. Another way to see this high country is riding a narrow gauge railroad that runs from Antonito, Colorado to Chama, New Mexico and back....

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Painted nails girls having fun

Painted nails girls having fun

    Today, Gwen wants blue toenails. She is four years old but has a mind of her own, like all of us. Today, Alma sits on the floor in a doorway and carefully puts a new more beautiful blue on previously red toenails. Every little girl needs these moments....

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Taking our order waiter's office

Taking our order waiter's office

    Across the road from the Hemingway Romantic Eco-Cottages is an open air bar with picnic tables covered by Mexican tablecloths, salt and pepper shakers made with small Corona bottles, pithy signs and a cooking area where a chef makes tacos, a specialty of...

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Playing in the Sand Sandman

Playing in the Sand Sandman

    There are sand creations on beaches. They start as an idea, then move past idea to become reality. Artists bring their buckets and shovels, pots and rakes, sticks or bones, bottle caps or string, shells or seaweed to make hair. They kneel in the sand,...

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Tubac Art Festival February 10, 2017

Tubac Art Festival February 10, 2017

    Art flourishes in the desert.  At the Tubac Art Festival, streets are closed to traffic, excepting horse drawn wagons, and tents are being set up while parking attendants put on their lime colored jackets and sunscreen. Two of the parking lots are...

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