A Daily Joy - Our Year in the Land of Enchantment

A year ago we left Florida saying, in our year end newsletter:

“We began the Guardians of the Everglades® multi-media project with great hopes of reaching and educating a broad range of individuals in the benefits of Everglades conservation. . .” But forces of destruction were overwhelming. and clear-eyed, we had to move on.

Over the past year news on climate change has shifted from threatened species or habitats to one of international concern for the ecosystem of the entire planet. Yet Nero continues to fiddle.

Our year in the Land of Enchantment has proven to be the right move. New Mexicans understand that we share the planet with all creatures, threatened or thriving, and it is a daily joy. Share some of our beauty.

We wish you and yours and all creatures here below beauty and peace.

Feliz Navidad y Prospero Año Nuevo.

Nicholas and Connie

View from Sandia Crest over Albuquerque

Viga shadows on adobe

Young buck in velvet

Balloon dip in the Rio Grande

Rio Grande in summer

International Hot Air Balloon Festival - When Pigs Fly

Acoma valley

Valles Caldera National Preserve

Jemez River bosque in the fall

Buddy the Cockatoo in his favorite cottonwood

NM State Fair Rodeo grand entry

Maximilian sunflowers

Acequia looking west

Acequia east

Ladder-backed woodpecker

Our garden in snow

Fireplace in the living room

We Wish You Joy and Contentment

In Buddhist symbolism the lotus is symbolic of purity of body, speech, and mind. While rooted in the mud, its flowers blossom on long stalks as if floating above the muddy waters of attachment and desire.

The lotus is also symbolic of Spirituality.

At this special time of year, we wish you joy and contentment.  May we all rise above the mud and reach for the stars.

Nicholas and Connie