Sharp Shooter

Photo above by Annie Liebovitz of Annie Oakley's little heart target at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe.
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Bold Boulders

Not sure which is more surprising: that boulders is misspelled, or that boulders have character.

Seen on Diamond Drive in Los Alamos.
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SW

"The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceeded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based." -Dr. Carl Sagan
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Happy Place

Maybe this explains why we eloped in Napa?!

(Also, go Santa Fe -- No. 4 most happy city!). Read the full article from The Atlantic here.



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Westward

"I like a destination which pulls
true, deliberate,
but at great distance."
-Bruce Willard
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Need for Speed

"Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death!" -credo of the shovel racer. Read my article here.
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Direction

"My needle...always settles between west and south-southwest. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more unexhausted an richer on that side." -Thoreau
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Lake Katherine

"My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well. I am fast shut up like a little lake in the embrace of some big mountains. If you were to climb up the mountains, you would see me down below, deep and shining - and quite fathomless, my dear. You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom." -Katherine Mansfield
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No Fear

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." -Georgia O'Keeffe
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Navajo Nation

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Roots

"If you don't know who you are, you don't know where you're going. If you don't know where you're going, you're lost." -good quote from a Miss Navajo hopeful on NPR
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Fat Cat

Winkley's cousin.
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West

"May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view...where something strange and more beautiful and full of wonder than your deepest dreams awaits you." -Edward Abbey
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So Long, For Now

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Mama Earth

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En Route to Red River

Almost immediately after we saw this sign, I said: "Wow, I'd really like to see some bighorn sheep."

And then we did:

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Leading Ladies

"At the time, I had no idea there was already a growing sport of snowshoe running and that specific snowshoes were being made for such. It was a much smaller sport back then, barely getting started. I felt like I'd stumbled onto a whole new frontier." -excerpt from my Q&A with amazing snowshoe racers Laurie Lambert and Ceal Walker on Snowshoe Magazine.
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Beware

As mentioned in the Telegraph; photo taken in New Mexico.
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Gone Wrong

At the Geronimo Springs Museum in Truth or Consequences, NM
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It's What's For Dinner

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