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On our drive home from the wedding, we stopped at Valley of Fires, which I’ve never done in the nearly two decades I’ve spent driving past it.

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12. Where I ate lunch.
(Okay, I ate at Second Street Brewery, which overlooks this water tower. All my shots of the brewery sucked.)

12. Where I ate lunch.

(Okay, I ate at Second Street Brewery, which overlooks this water tower. All my shots of the brewery sucked.)

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Driving back up to Los Alamos this afternoon. Currently just south of San Antonio. I am bored!

Driving back up to Los Alamos this afternoon. Currently just south of San Antonio. I am bored!

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Angel Fire, NM.

Angel Fire, NM.

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Finally got down to the trails today.

Work was really, really hard. I have a manager who is both kind and generous, while also having the worst temper out of anyone I’ve ever known. We were busy to the point that I couldn’t get anything done, task-wise, except address the needs of the customer. Then my manager, who hasn’t had a day off in weeks, came in to “help”. All he did was grumble around and eventually lose his temper and throw something because there wasn’t Splenda on our condiment bar. I feel for the guy, but this brought me to angry tears. I called him out on it and he almost lost his cool on me. I gotta admit, confrontation isn’t really my style. Manager kept telling me to breathe, and I kept saying, “Believe me, I’m trying.”

Rain has finally come, though, in an otherwise dry winter. Stepping outside, knowing my face has been in a nonstop state of pinkish-red all day (really, all week), the cool breeze and mist on my cheeks relieved me. The smell of douglas firs and ponderosa pines in the rain is glorious, and you can smell it all over town. After scarfing some nachos as a comforting lunch, we took a walk. In Los Alamos, that means being suddenly on a trail, if you want to be. Thank goodness. I could breathe again.

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Santa Fe National Forest. October 2012.

Santa Fe National Forest. October 2012.

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An outtake from last fall’s grass-seed shots. I can’t wait for fall! Actually, the weather this week in Los Alamos is perfection, but I want fall colors in addition to the rain, cloudy days, and cool temperatures. 

An outtake from last fall’s grass-seed shots. I can’t wait for fall! Actually, the weather this week in Los Alamos is perfection, but I want fall colors in addition to the rain, cloudy days, and cool temperatures. 

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July 6, 2011
We came home to Los Alamos, with mountainsides still burning in the distance. At night, the ridgetops were aglow, and smoke still inundated our homes. The skies did not turn blue before we left, despite a lack of clouds; they were grey or yellowish grey all day.

July 6, 2011

We came home to Los Alamos, with mountainsides still burning in the distance. At night, the ridgetops were aglow, and smoke still inundated our homes. The skies did not turn blue before we left, despite a lack of clouds; they were grey or yellowish grey all day.

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Felt like posting some more Bandelier photos. Remember when I used to post mostly my own pictures all the time?

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