Truly the Land of Enchantment

Blog of New Mexico. I lost the password for latierradelencanto, so new blog. :/

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People near adobe home, New Mexico

Date: circa 1910-1935? From the Twitchell collection (POG 003042)

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Three men on Holy Week pilgrimage to Chimayo, New Mexico Photographer: Bayard Horton Date: 1980? From the Santa Fe New Mexican Collection (Negative Number HP.2014.14.515)

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New Mexico - Road Trip

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The ruins in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon are some of the most well-preserved remnants of the Ancestral Pueblan civilization in the Four Corners area of the southwest. But tucked in a small canyon, painted on a rock overhang are these strange pictographs. One is a clear depiction of a human hand, but the other two are thought to show the crescent moon alongside a star that went nova on July 4th, 1054. 

This event would have been noticeable and spectacular–the brightness of a supernova is such that it can be seen in the daytime and even outshine the moon itself, making the night sky appear eerily bright. It was seen all around the world, and matches similar depictions seen in every inhabited place on Earth at the time. And on that night, the moon was indeed in the waning crescent phase.

Today, although the bright supernova is no longer lighting up the sky, we now know it as the Crab Nebula.  

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Original courthouse and county seat, Puerto de Luna, New Mexico

Photographer: Ray Robinson Date: 1958 Negative Number 056332

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View from the top of the mountain. View from my home of the mountain.

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Not bad for handheld. Clines Corners is getting nailed.

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Speak, dear friends. We’re listening.

VLA, New Mexico

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floating the rio grande

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Upper deck seating

Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Flood on Main Street, Roswell, New Mexico Photographer: G. Redfield Date: May 29, 1937 Negative Number 052027

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Rufous Hummingbird – Male (Selasphorous rufus); Santa Fe National Forest, NM, Thompson Ridge [Lou Feltz] by Lou Feltz Via Flickr: Even in less than direct sunlight you can still capture sufficient iridescence if you keep the sun at your back This one has settled on a thin twig that I have pre-positioned slightly above the feeders… he often assumes guard duty at this station. (I’m sitting on an 8-foot step ladder at about the minimum distance permitted by this lens.) IMG_3922; Rufous Hummingbird