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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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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Hoos!

Unfortunately this had nothing to do with UVA.

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Dashing through the Snow

"The first fall of snow is not only event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?" -J.B. Priestly. Racing in the Santa Fe Snowshoe Classic today!
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New Year

Can you see the hope written all over his face? Happy 2012!

(photo taken in Santa Fe)
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Santa Fe Snow Day

Yeehaw.
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Fat and Happy

Conversation overheard between a couple visiting Santa Fe (these bears are on my walk to work):

Woman: "That's how they felt after Thanksgiving."

Man: "No, that's how they felt after eating a tourist."

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Bruises?

Spotted on my walk to work.
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The City Different

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Law Enforcement

"Little did they know...they were going to bump into the wrong Superman -- a world-class runner... It's like he flew out of the sky. He was just missing his cape." -Santa Fe New Mexican article about an elite marathoner who ran down a purse-thief.
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12,632 feet

Photo from last Sunday's hike up Santa Fe Baldy.

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into the trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." -John Muir

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Power Walk

"Are you rushing again?" -an old man who gets off the bus in Santa Fe with me. He asks me this question every day, and every day I tell him I'm going to work. Must be nice to be retired and not always be in a hurry to get somewhere.
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Uncontrolled

"For the time being, it seems unlikely that Las Conchas will burn LANL or Los Alamos. But the fire is only 3 percent contained. As of Friday, it had destroyed 103,842 acres." -get the details of New Mexico's biggest wildfire at Outside.com.
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Lost Kids

Sign at Gabriel's, a restaurant north of Santa Fe: Unattended Children will be given an espresso and a free puppy.
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Rock On

As seen outside Second Street Brewery.
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Another One

"A wildfire in Jemez Springs is currently sending a smoke plume over Los Alamos...The fire is actively burning. Running, crowning and spotting up to half a mile of the head of the fire has been observed." -as reported in the Los Alamos Monitor. Ug. Voluntary evacuations underway. Read more here.

Photo: view from Second Street, Santa Fe.

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Scorcher

Leaving Los Alamos

Near Gabriel's

Camel Rock

"A fire broke out on the Santa Fe National Forest 6 miles northeast of Tesuque on Saturday afternoon. By early evening the Pacheco Canyon Wildfire had grown to more than 150 acres." -breaking news Santa Fe New Mexican. I can see it from my porch. Photos from the drive home yesterday.

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Hazy Skies

"That smoke in New Mexican' eyes isn't leaving yet." -from the New Mexican's fire coverage.

Photo from the Santa Fe New Mexican

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Tamale Night

Too many cooks in the kitchen? Turned out to be just about right :)
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Outside HQ

"Are you in the Adobe Castle?" -a PR lady's creative way of asking if I work at 400 Market Street. Why, yes I do.

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