Love Thou the Rose...

Love Thou the Rose…

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Las Cruces, New Mexico

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Red Chile Ristras

Red Chile Ristras

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Mesilla, New Mexico

“The chile, it seems to me, is one of the few food that has its own goodness.”

~ Diana Kennedy

Mesilla Pecan Grove

Mesilla Pecan Grove

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Mesilla, New Mexico

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.”

~ William Blake

Pumpkin Glow

Pumpkin Glow

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Mesilla, New Mexico

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

Bridge

Autumn Bridge

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Cloudcroft, New Mexico

“The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”

~ David Russell

Cliff Car

Rust on the Cliff

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Cloudcroft, New Mexico

“Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.”

~ Owen Felltham

Light of the Rio Grande

Light of the Rio Grande

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Las Cruces, New Mexico

“Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.”

~ Edward Abbey