We're gradually warming up, though a downturn in temperatures is predicted later this week. In the meantime, life goes on and the days are sunny and not too cold.
Wandering with camera often allows us to see humorous/strange situations and share them ... like a chair sitting on (thin) ice at Lake Roberts on our birdwatching trip!
Another happened-on picture is the one through the gateway of Hacienda Sur Luna, a fly-in residential development about a mile north of Columbus, NM, and thus about four miles north of the US/Mexico border at Palomas. I'll bet the border patrol keeps an eye on this place! We noticed another pilot-oriented subdivision in the Mimbres Valley when we went to Lake Roberts, but that one is separate lots and hangars around an airstrip, not an apartment-like, contiguous-walled development like the Hacienda. More on the Hacienda at hangarliving.vtchome.net/Hacienda.html and at findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m5092/is_n5_v14/ai_9326431/pg_3/. The development is apparently at least 20 years old and looks like it hasn't taken off like the developer hoped it would. Border conditions probably didn't help.
Border conditions (and the recent shootings in Tucson) also contribute to the environment shown in the top picture, a state trooper standing watch outside an entrance to the Columbus room where the Congressmen were meeting. There were two troopers at that door and officers outside the front entrance, as well as 4-6 armed uniforms (sheriff's department, state troopers and Border Patrol) in the meeting room itself. tv
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