New Mexico Nature

Sharing the beauty of New Mexico.

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Bridge over the Rio Grande Gorge, US Highway 64, near Taos, New Mexico Creator: New Mexico Tourism Bureau Date: 1965? Negative Number HP.2007.20.480

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June 16,2018

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Automobile crossing bridge, Maxwell, New Mexico Photographer: L.R. Patterson Date: 1912? Negative Number 000848

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New arrival! “This is what a flash flood looks like in N. Mex. on the highway north of Albuquerque. It fills a dry arroyo. We crossed shortly after this.” Date: August 1941 Negative Number HP.2018.10.51

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Taos, New Mexico. March, 2018

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The Shore at Heron Lake

Heron Lake State Park, New Mexico

Low water levels on the Chama River due to years of drought have created a broad shoreline around the reservoir at Heron Lake State Park near Chama, New Mexico.

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Albuquerque - Santa Fe motor bus on Taos Road, New Mexico Date: ca. 1925-1935 Negative Number 011703

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Cell block, New Mexico Territorial Penitentiary, Santa Fe, New Mexico Photographer: Thomas J. Curran Date: 1893 Negative Number 015206

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This is an aerial view of Trementina Base, a compound built by the Church of Scientology in rural northeastern New Mexico. Allegedly, it protects a fortified mountainside vault where the complete writings of church founder L. Ron Hubbard can be safely preserved in case of an apocalypse. Nobody knows exactly what these circular designs carved into the ground actually mean, as the church itself won’t discuss them; former members say it’s a sort of guidepost to help Hubbard find his way to the base when he returns to Earth from his final resting place on a distant planet. 

(Photos are from Google Maps and are not my own)

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“La Fonda”, Santa Fe, New Mexico Creator: Fred Harvey Company Date: ca. 1930s - 1940s Negative Number HP.2015.15.001

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Broody. Rumors of overnight snow.

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Yellow, white, red.

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Blue insulators.

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Santa Fe

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Red Dirt in the Morning

Northwestern New Mexico

In the badlands of the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness Area near Farmington in northwestern New Mexico.

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Yep, we got snow.

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Another, fresh out of the camera.