That's truly awesome. Near the petrified forest? Here's my totally New Mexican front yard in sepia tones.... EPIC!
....aaaand I am logging off to watch a movie with the boys, so I thank you for this awesome roadtrip through the Land of Enchantment and Points West, and leave you with our Christmas Tree - we hauled a tumbleweed out of the acequia and decorated it! Free! Green as hell!
...but did ya notice the homemade Reddit alien ornament?! My son, 15, made that. I'm going to do a Tumbletree EVERY year. It has been a wonderful conversation piece, cheap, and heck, I could keep it up all year as it doesn't need water. I can't believe more folks don't do this. Hopefully, I am starting a new Southwestern trend. You will probably see Tumbleweed merchants fill the Texas streets next November. It's just a matter of time.
Ohhh, no I didn't. My grandparents and I have a Christmas tradition that I fly in or drive in from wherever I may be, we cut a little beat-up spruce tree down from their land in the Texas Hill Country, and slather it in lights. It's a great (free) tradition, memory-making, all that stuff. I don't know why everyone doesn't do something similar!
Oh, now that is a site to lose oneself inside - there are more mysteries in our simple lives and homes than in all of Roswell. Here's my son, contemplating the mysteries of life in the New Mexico sunset from the vantage point of his vintage Trooper.