sunset on the cleft into Lake County from Williams.  

it's unbelievably filthy 

evil smog, Tehatchapi Pass heading north 

painted desert 

@ Lowell 

there is some snow, too 

i want one 

"Astronomy now demands bodily abstraction of its devotee --- to see into the beyond requires purity --- and the secureing it makes him perforce a hermit from his kind ---- he must abandon cities and forego plains --- only in places raised above and aloof from men can he profitably persue his search -- he must learn to wait upon his opportunities and then no less to wait from mankind's acceptance of his results --- for in common with most explorers he will encounter on his return that fnal penalty of penetration the certainty at first of being disbelieved --- 

"Everything around this earth we see is subject to one inevitable cycle of birth growth decay --- nothing begins but comes at last to end --- though our own lives are too busy to even mark the slow nearing to that eventual goal -- today what we already know is helping to comprehension of another world-in a not too distant future we shall be repaid with interest and what that other world shall have taught us will redound to a better knowledge of our own and the cosmos of which the two form part --- The Evolution Of Worlds, Percival Lowell 

Eric has a great story about this tomb... 

The Metasonix Mobile @ Lowell Observatory 

more artwork for sale 

my fave 

outstanding detail 

We were kindly invited to a party/art show 

booty! piles of booty 

There's carollers in the gazebo there. 

He ripped me off 

The indoor flea market we went to was a lot of fun--we did find some odd things there...and brought them home too. 

Happy Holidays from Oldtown Albq. 

strangely compelling, i couldnt resist taking this one. 

Ah, the Pie Shack. When we first dorve by the place, it stuck me as an odd combo of Guiness on Tap and Pie..until we stopped in and saw it meant PIZZA pie, not dessert pie. Still, had a bite there anyway. They have "Alien Ale" on tap too. Tasted like red hook to me... 

Barbours 

Barbours 

Reddy Kilowatt!