Uniform (176)

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A UNIFORM at Starbucks. Don't you love the colors that Starbucks uses?

Elastic (175)

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Key (174)

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Joke (173)

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I just had a little fun running several filters on this one. They sell these T-shirts at a Bar-B-Que place my husband likes to go to. I think it's funny, especially since right next door is a salad bar restaurant!

Pizza (172)

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And here was the finished product (see previous photo) ... my husband's sausage-with-Hatch-green-chiles pizza (known here as "the Duke City pizza.")

Blur (171)

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We went to a pizza place for dinner tonight, and these fellows were tossing and spinning the pizza dough so fast that it was just a BLUR.

Fountain (170)

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This fountain is in the back patio of a local Mexican restaurant (Church Street Cafe).

Tissue (169)

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Warning (168)

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Sunset (167)

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Tonight's sunset, from our backyard, with neighboring houses silhouetted against the western sky.

Delicate (166)

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I took this shot of the Russian Sage plant in our front yard late in the evening. I used a flash, and cropped it close. Russian Sage is a common plant here. It grows as a many-stemmed clump with pinnacles, made of tiny flowers, at the ends of each stem. It has gray-green leaves and stems that give off a nice, mild scent. I think it looks frilly and DELICATE when in bloom.

Stamps (165)

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Black and White (164)

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This is one of the stalls inside the women's restroom at the 66 Diner.

Bookmark (163)

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Tomorrow is Father's Day. One of our sons gave this leather BOOKMARK to my husband a number of years ago for Father's Day. He still uses it to keep his place in whatever sci-fi book he is currently reading.

Paint (162)

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This pretty little Acoma Pueblo girl, with PAINT on her cheeks, performs Native American dances with her two older brothers.

Family (161)

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My friend and I visited the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center a couple weeks ago. We met this very nice Native American FAMILY there, who asked us to take their picture. The son is a fourth-generation metal-worker. The father was making some jewelry there (see my "Jewelry" post, here), and the son was leaving, that day, to visit his grandfather for the summer, and join him in designing and making jewelry.

Tradition (160)

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The pueblo Indians who live in this area still bake their bread in TRADITIONAL outdoor ovens, like this, called hornos.

Eyes (doesn't count)

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I'm not counting this photo for the theme, "Eyes," because I didn't take it myself (I'll post another one for the theme, later). It was taken by my daughter-in-law, of my granddaughter, who lives too far away for me to take many pictures. But, aren't these pretty eyes?!

Friend (159)

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This is my very good (and very little) friend, Gloria. She came to visit me last week, and we had such fun at the Botanic Gardens.

Camera (158)

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This 1910 aerial camera, now displayed in the Albuquerque Balloon Museum, would have been mounted to the floor of a balloon gondola, to take pictures of the landscape below. (The museum has it enclosed in a glass case, which is why there are visible reflections.)

Silhouette (157)

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A view from inside the Children's Fantasy Garden (an exhibit at the Rio Grande Botanic Gardens). To quote from the Botanic Garden's website: "A fourteen-foot high dragon guards the entrance of the Fantasy Garden that gives children a mites' eye perspective on the garden. Giant rakes, hoes and watering cans are tools used to tend huge potatoes, onions and carrots only Superman could lift. Huge bees pollinate enormous flowers, and six-foot earthworms burrow through soil. A walk-through pumpkin 42 feet in diameter and two stories high is the centerpiece of this fun garden."

Dandelion (156)

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Rock 'n Roll (155)

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Jewelry (154)

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Mask (153)

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