{"id":1604,"date":"2010-12-11T23:15:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T04:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2010-12-11T23:15:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T04:15:54","slug":"land-of-enchantment-in-forty-flicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/1604","title":{"rendered":"Land of Enchantment in Forty Flicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

My month-long return to Nuevo Mexico is off to a bit of a rough start. I just can’t seem to get in an emotional groove I feel good about. Someone or other told me the first holiday season would be especially challenging, but I really had no idea. And then I remember how difficult it was just to sort through ornaments. Sheesh. The way things are going, I’m starting to believe that I need to spend mid-2011 and thereafter in a new town I’ve never lived in. Or visited. With all-new stuff. Yeah, that’s going to happen.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s some things that are<\/i> all-new and might not even be depressing. A couple shots from Albuquerque, but most of these are scenes from yesterday’s trip with the parents to the Salinas National Monument, home of several old missions on the east side of the Manzano Mountains south of ABQ. They’re pretty neat, even if they do represent Catholic co-option of native religion, culture, and people. So it goes.<\/p>\n


\nAbandoned apartment building in downtown ABQ – they never finished building it when the boom went bust.<\/p>\n


\nI could swear that part of the Senior Project film that Gris did with Bay & Toby was filmed in this back alley. Or that we were initially going to film some of my homeless-man scenes there but then shifted to another nearby locale. It’s funny what being back in one’s hometown can do to the memory.<\/p>\n


\nThe iconic towers of the ABQ skyline.<\/p>\n


\nNesbitt L’Orange, my parents’ relatively new cat.<\/p>\n


\nTrains!<\/p>\n


\nAbo, the first of the three missions.<\/p>\n


\nBig sky.<\/p>\n


\nAbo meets big sky.<\/p>\n


\nRuins.<\/p>\n


\nLong wall.<\/p>\n


\nThey don’t make contrast like that everywhere.<\/p>\n


\nA tree grows in the ruin.<\/p>\n


\nLight and shadow.<\/p>\n


\nThe horse we rode in on.<\/p>\n


\nThe door is ajar.<\/p>\n


\nAlmost like Nebraska.<\/p>\n


\nMesa with tracks.<\/p>\n


\nBest sign ever.<\/p>\n


\nCactus in bloom.<\/p>\n


\nArch with parents.<\/p>\n


\nThis is Gran Quivira, whose color is more traditional stone than the traditional mission color.<\/p>\n


\nRoom with a view.<\/p>\n


\nA view of the room.<\/p>\n


\nMy father, gesticulating wildly.<\/p>\n


\nView of many rooms.<\/p>\n


\nView of the basement.<\/p>\n


\nQuorai, the last of the three.<\/p>\n


\nChurch in state.<\/p>\n


\nSlice of sky.<\/p>\n


\nSunset within.<\/p>\n


\nGlorious ruin.<\/p>\n


\nGround level.<\/p>\n


\nContemporary interruption.<\/p>\n


\nAlmost Aztec.<\/p>\n


\nA little bit of sol.<\/p>\n


\nRuns down the hallway…<\/p>\n


\nSilhouette.<\/p>\n


\nMy favorite window.<\/p>\n


\nThe moon, incoming.<\/p>\n


\nThe sun, outgoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My month-long return to Nuevo Mexico is off to a bit of a rough start. I just can’t seem to get in an emotional groove I feel good about. Someone or other told me the first holiday season would be especially challenging, but I really had no idea. And then I remember how difficult it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,26,33],"tags":[5,67,73],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-just-add-photo","category-the-long-tunnel","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-just-add-photo","tag-the-long-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}