Thursday, August 17, 2006
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A hotel on Alameda Street, downtown Santa Fe. Three shots, stitched using DoubleTake.
Gallup, New Mexico
Red Rock State Park, about 5 miles east of downtown Gallup. A panorama of three shots.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Gallup, New Mexico
Long Walk Home
Richard K. Yazzie, murallist, 2005
In 1864, during a period of destabilization among U.S. settlers, Spanish inhabitants and Native Americans, the Navajo and some Apachee were singled out by the U.S. government as responsible for raiding. Thousands of Navajo people were forcibly marched from Canoon de Chelly by Colonel Kit Carson, on orders of Brigadier Geeneral James H. Carleton, to Fort Sumner, 400 miles away. Eventually, 7,000 Navajo were imprisoned there.
The captives suffered four years of deplorable conditions of drought, hunger and cold until it no longer became feasible to hold them. The Peace Treaty of 1868 was signed and the Navajo were released. At Fort Wingate, livestock and other supplies were distributed. From there the Navajo dispersed allong the Rio Puerco, where Gallup was later founded in 1881, to their ancestral homeland, now a defined reservation.
Note: This is the kind of rainbow that I saw for the first time in my life, both ends in plain sight, as I entered Santa Fe about a week ago.
Richard K. Yazzie, murallist, 2005
In 1864, during a period of destabilization among U.S. settlers, Spanish inhabitants and Native Americans, the Navajo and some Apachee were singled out by the U.S. government as responsible for raiding. Thousands of Navajo people were forcibly marched from Canoon de Chelly by Colonel Kit Carson, on orders of Brigadier Geeneral James H. Carleton, to Fort Sumner, 400 miles away. Eventually, 7,000 Navajo were imprisoned there.
The captives suffered four years of deplorable conditions of drought, hunger and cold until it no longer became feasible to hold them. The Peace Treaty of 1868 was signed and the Navajo were released. At Fort Wingate, livestock and other supplies were distributed. From there the Navajo dispersed allong the Rio Puerco, where Gallup was later founded in 1881, to their ancestral homeland, now a defined reservation.
Note: This is the kind of rainbow that I saw for the first time in my life, both ends in plain sight, as I entered Santa Fe about a week ago.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Gallup, New Mexico
Women's Mullti-cultural Mural
Erica Rae Sykes, muralist, 2005
Centuries before Gallup's founding in 1881, this was a region of interweaving native cultures -- Navajo, Hopi and Zuni. Resources of coal, timber, railroads and trading attracted settlers and created a city of increasing cultural diversity.
We offer a tribute to the women who have carried on the traditions of daily life of their own cultures, raising children, making gardens and neighborhoods. Women who have perpetuated special holidays. Women who have had a major role in forming our cultural organizations, churches, schools and libraries.
The large symbolic storyteller at the left of the mural pays homage to the women who have kept multi-cultural memories alive by telling stories of the past.
[From the plaque by the mural]
Erica Rae Sykes, muralist, 2005
Centuries before Gallup's founding in 1881, this was a region of interweaving native cultures -- Navajo, Hopi and Zuni. Resources of coal, timber, railroads and trading attracted settlers and created a city of increasing cultural diversity.
We offer a tribute to the women who have carried on the traditions of daily life of their own cultures, raising children, making gardens and neighborhoods. Women who have perpetuated special holidays. Women who have had a major role in forming our cultural organizations, churches, schools and libraries.
The large symbolic storyteller at the left of the mural pays homage to the women who have kept multi-cultural memories alive by telling stories of the past.
[From the plaque by the mural]
Monday, May 01, 2006
Portland, Oregon
I was on my way the post office when I came upon this May Day, pro-immigration demonstration going south on 12th Avenue. I don't know at what point I saw them, but it was several blocks long.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Bad buses, bad drivers kill hundreds annually on Andean roads
I've been explaining to my friends, for years now, why, after nine years, I don't know Peru. It is because the roads are terrible, each week I read about another bus going over another precipice, and I'm simply partial to dying in bed.
Here's an article that supports my thinking: Bad buses, bad drivers kill hundreds annually on Andean roads
Here's an article that supports my thinking: Bad buses, bad drivers kill hundreds annually on Andean roads
Monday, March 20, 2006
A Higher Plane...Bar None
My Flickr friend, Robin, took this shot, during a stop on a tour of Vancouver. He's a hell of a driver and a wonderful person.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Return from hibernation
I cannot believe that I have been in hibernation since 24 August 2005, when I visited Ecuador.
Since then, I've travelled to Kingston, to another place, to Orlando, and am planning to leave for Vancouver, Canada by the end of this month. Of course, I did find some difficulty getting to computers while I was in the Caribbean, but I certain had access to a computer in Orlando. I just didn't have the desire to catch up, to bring my blog up to date.
Let's see how much energy will be generated to keep my blog current.
Since then, I've travelled to Kingston, to another place, to Orlando, and am planning to leave for Vancouver, Canada by the end of this month. Of course, I did find some difficulty getting to computers while I was in the Caribbean, but I certain had access to a computer in Orlando. I just didn't have the desire to catch up, to bring my blog up to date.
Let's see how much energy will be generated to keep my blog current.
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