end of another summer-break...back from NM, back to work...

My summer break is over. Tomorrow morning, bright and early: day one of the new school-year with my students...

Briefly, a few photos...

I spent a few days in New Mexico last week--my first time to Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos...A very full short trip, involving eating copious amounts of red and green chile, trail running along the Rio Grande, and admiring adobe architecture...More later, but tonight, just a few scenes, all iPhone shots; I haven't had time to sort through the photos from the 'real' camera...

 --just over the border from AZ into NW New Mexico--approaching the Zuni Pueblo...

--wildflowers near Enchanted Mesa, near the Acoma Pueblo...

--the iconic adobe church of San Francisco de Asis, in Ranchos de Taos... 

--bridge above the Rio Grande Gorge; 800 ft above the river... 

 --Taos Pueblo and Taos Mountain, under a threatening monsoon sky...

--19th c. French Romanesque Cathedral in Santa Fe; the steeples were never built...

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...and AFAR travel magazine is sponsoring another "Catch" contest;

here's a scene of a meal from last summer, in Sokcho, Korea,

and it just won one of the rounds of the contest--the "Eat" theme!

After this past spring's attempt at Condé Nast's "Dream Trip Contest," I'm trying again for free travel!
(To find out, alas, who won, click here.) So, S. and I can dream of getting to Europe again...to Belgium.


And the one below was a runner-up in the same contest's "Eat" theme--from Santa Fe last week:

I continue to be amazed at the possibility of discreet restaurant-shots with the iPhone...


Now, to bed--tomorrow's a school day: to work!