Not my house

These are all located on the Dripping Springs hike. There was a hotel up there back in the day, so people could escape the city. The 1st picture is the hotel, the forth picture is the stables. The 3rd is a sanatorium from not-sure-which-year for individuals with TB. They're trying to restore some of the buildings, but the structure in pic 2 may be a bit beyond salvage. Still, it looks cool. Well, I'm off the blog for now. I just posted a ton of posts, so hopefully you can get a peek into my life here. Sometime I'll post pictures of my apartment... but not today. Have a fabulous week!

Dripping Springs

These pics were taken on a hike up to Dripping Springs... which is the 2nd picture. You probably can't really see the springs, because it pretty much is just dripping. Some of the pictures I took because there was snow. Down in the valley, there's almost never snow, although apparently this is the wettest winter people around here can remember in a long time. We've had snow about twice I think. But we've had some rain too - not a lot, but we've had some. In the last picture you can see a city below in the valley. I'm not sure if my neighborhood is visible, but that's Las Cruces. That's where I hang my hat... just below the Organ mountains (not visible).

The move

If you look at the dates you'll see that the red rock pictures were taken earlier (on my move down to Las Cruces). They were right off the freeway. A scenic drive. The 1st picture is an ongoing fascination with my new environment. Imagine the panoramic view... but I think you can get the point.

Somewhere near Hatch, NM around Christmas time

These are taken from an old church in the area. I wish I had a cool story to tell you about it, but I don't know the history. Still, it's cool looking. My friend felt I should have a pic of me on Facebook (maybe I don't have any), so she took this one... a little posed. It's won't make Fb, but I guess it's ok for the blog. This was around Christmas time. Notice the light jacket. I won't be shoveling snow this year (yeah!)

Mesilla

Billy the Kid was sentenced to hang in the square of Mesilla back in the day. He got away... and was later killed. The 1st pic is a great little book store off the main square. I like it... then some pecan groves nearby. It's also a trail along an irrigation ditch. Apparently once you find the canals, you can run them from one end of the city to the other and some of them stretch to El Paso. I haven't spent much time on them. They're flat, but there's plenty of places to get good hills around here. The Antiques shop is just picturesque Southwest. I haven't been inside, I just like the cacti.

Wide open spaces

It's quite unexpected that I'm here in NM and I still do not know how long I'll stay. But, since I am here, it's a great opportunity to explore a place that I likely would not otherwise consider.

These pictures were taken on my drive from Roswell to Edgewood. I grew up in Colorado, but after so much time in Boston and elsewhere, I still get fascinated by so much open space... no houses, no trees, just cholla (?) cactus and a lot of sky. It's pretty. Different, but pretty.

Roswell

New Car

Bought in December. It was in this car that I re-learned how to drive when you are not in Boston. For those of you still in Boston, you need to know that when you leave traffic laws are much more than suggestions and they really do expect that you follow the speed limit... a very slow one I might add. I'm still irritated about my 2 ridiculous speeding tickets within 4 days of each other. It's a relief to now have NM plates. Now I can drive like I'm retired, taking my time and hopefully avoid taking some driving course in order to keep my license, should I get ticket #3 in this year (which happens to still have 10+ months).