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A trip to New Mexico

My husband and I went to New Mexico October 6 to visit some of our oldest and dearest friends who live north of Albuquerque.  We were to meet up in a beautiful little ski town of Red River, New Mexico for the annual Corvette weekend, full of road trips, visit a Raspberry farm and just have fun. 

 We arrived a day early and it was a beautiful drive out through the Oklahoma Panhandle, yes, I said beautiful.  

The photo above is of the Gloss or Glass Mountains just west of Enid, Oklahoma.  We went a little out of the way because I had heard they were really pretty.   There is some controversey as to the name given to them by a Scotsman who had a dialect hard to understand.

 Most people don't believe that Panhandle and beautiful go together, but I love the diversity of the scenery.

Then we crossed the border into New Mexico

shots from Springer, New Mexico

When we arrived in Red River the Aspen trees were beautiful

with their gold and orange leaves!

How can you get any more beautiful than that?

more to come...

2011 Bartlesville Photo Walk

2011 Bartlesville Photo Walk, a group on Flickr.

October 1, 2011 was the day for the Scott Kelby Worldwide photo walk. We chose Pawhuska, Oklahoma to be our shoot location.
We met there and took photos for 2.5 hours then we ate!

What a beautiful day we had here in Oklahoma!

Who wants to sweat??????

This has been one of the, no let me correct that, the hottest summer in the history of our state of Oklahoma in recorded history, plus Oklahoma was recorded that July as the hottest state with the highest average temps ever recorded in the history of the lower 48 states! That being said we haven't done much all summer, it was just too hot to want to do anything much.  You get in the car and you just about hear the water sizzling out of your body!  We had several days well over 110 degrees and one day was 116 degrees. 


This is just the weirdest thing because we had a state record low of -27 degrees in our town this past winter also......  I like seasons of change but this is just too drastic.  

Really the only thing getting done around here is that we have been getting a deck built and I am excited about that and it should  be finished next week.  We still have to put up the iron deck railing, the steps are not done yet, and the side facing the photograph will have a screen for privacy to the neighborhood side.  Plus we are having stone foundation laid at the base to cover the under side.  Our friends Keith and Mike are doing the carpentry and as usual they are doing a great job.  

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Three generations