After a day at the museum, we enjoyed an historic baseball game at Chase Field. Diamondbacks Tyler Gilbert pitched a no-hitter for his first full game in the majors. Their season has not been great but the crowd was roaring by the final pitch! Nice game.
While visiting friends staying in Phoenix, we decided to skip the heat and visit the Musical Instrument Museum. A considerable collection of instruments from all over the world, interesting demos and a whole room of instruments that visitors can play (including a theremin). The video shows a demonstration of the Decap “Apollonia” Orchestrion automated mechanical instrument, the largest in the museum.
The smoke from all the fires out West has now settled in Santa Fe. While it makes a lovely sunset timelapse, it’s not very good for the lungs. Climate change is not something for the future… the future is here. The last photo shows what the view is without all the haze.
We explored a nice trail in the Pecos National Historical Park near the Forked Lightening Ranch house. The ranch was formerly owned by Greer Garson and was donated to the park after her death. The trail winds around the pasture and down along the Pecos River.
A collection of photos and timelapses from the last week of the storms and sunsets.
Compassion Fatigue
A merry septet on this Dance of Death, 2021
It was bound to happen
I’ve got compassion fatigue
Watching lots die
From a preventable disease
We thought Covid was licked
Now ICUs are a mess
The light at the end of the tunnel
Is the Delta Variant Express
If it’s freedom you want
Masks and shots you won’t do
Lets start vaccine mandates
You can sit home and stew
And if caring for others
You feel is undue
Add a vaccine passport
That oughta ground you
If folks won’t see reason
Public health they won’t heed
They can suffer their actions
And relieve my fatigue
Maybe your busy
Or you just hesitated
There’s still plenty of time
To get vaccinated
Stop listening to the ring-wing
Tucker, Laura and Fox
Just get the vaccine
Just get the damn shots
This area off the Pecos exit of I-25 (located near the Santa Fe Ntl Forest) had always been a Baptist summer camp. New owners have transformed it into Glorieta Adventure Camp. Behind the original Glorieta Baptist church, are now bike trails, developed in conjunction with the Santa Fe Fat Tire Society. More info at trailforks.com
Listened to the free concert on the Santa Fe plaza given by Ozomatli and then up to the rooftop bar at La Fonda for some $12 margaritas. Nice views of roof ductwork, the Jemez Mt.s and the Loretto Chapel.
Finally had a big downpour last week that gave us about 2 inches. After, I hiked over the greenbelt to try to find spadefoot toads which come out after the rains to party. I can always hear them but I never can find any : (
A variety of cloud shots and a timelapse from earlier this month.
