I just returned from a long, warm and windy week in Southeastern New Mexico. While there I experienced the thrill of blaring a country music station while driving aimlessly through the desert, being surrounded by the most hummingbirds I’ve ever seen in one place, scoring a zebra print bandanna from the biggest, best Walmart ever- for 92 cents!, eating dinner, surrounded by senior prom couples, at a restaurant where the owner walked around from table to table with a wireless microphone crooning Sinatra, making Mexican tissue paper flowers at a local school carnival, realizing my need to one day own a vintage pickup truck, chocking on the hottest salsa I’ve ever experienced, making some new friends during an unexpected layover in Dallas- and oh yeah, surviving the loudest, craziest dust storm I’ve ever seen!

All in all, another colorful trip out West!

Must own a 1970ish model truck soon… a puppy with the coolest eyes ever- one crystal clear blue, one dark brown

There must have been at least fifteen hummingbirds hanging out around me- it was so beautiful to watch them playing and taking turns at the feeder.

I love that this faded Coca Cola sign was repainted not painted over, speaking of vintage signs… this neon sign of the Butterfield Hotel has been around forever and is spectacular in person… oh yeah and another cool truck, must own cool truck soon- must own cool truck soon!!!!

Wow there really is a horizon… living in New York sometimes I forget

A gi-normous rosemary bush- and some dried chilies from a local crop ( the other big crop there is pecans- yum) -that may or may not have been the ones that “got” me

Have you had a colorful trip this Spring?

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