The Week: April 20th — 26th

April 26, 2015May 3, 2015 Timothy Price9 Comments

Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of April 20th — April 26th:

April 20th: Betty Boop — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/betty-boop

April 21st: Annoying cute kitty photos — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/kitties-cute-abstract-and-otherwise

April 22nd: A very large tank — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/25k-gallons

April 23rd: First and last — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/first-and-last-blooms

April 24th: Seizures — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/seizures

April 25th: Pretty pinks — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/shades-of-pink

April 26th: Even more annoying cat photos — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/crazy-cute-kitties

More Progress

January 31, 2015 Timothy Price10 Comments

GrocerySite1-26-15 — Site of the downtown grocery store complex on Monday, January 26, 2015

DSCF3155 — Faye and Jay climbed to the 16th floor of the New Mexico Bank & Trust Building in 2:46:30 on Wednesday, January 28, 2015. They were a minute faster than Bruce and me.

DSCF3161 — Looked like they had dug down to the water table on Wednesday, January 28, 2015.

DSCF3165 — Bruce and I set personal records climbing the 16 floors on Thursday, January 29, 2015 in 3:27:50. Thursday was our 10th climb up the stairs at the New Mexico Bank & Trust Building.

Friday, January 30, 2015 was cold and wet with a mix of rain and snow falling most of the day. The front end loaders, grader, tractor and back hoe got the day off on Friday.

GrocerySite1-30-15 — Panorama of Downtown Albuquerque on a gray, wet Friday, January 30, 2015. The New Mexico Bank & Trust Building is in the center of the photo.

Red Hot Wheels

January 29, 2015 Timothy Price19 Comments

Red hot wheels in Downtown Albuquerque — red Porsche 911 Carrera and red Audi R8.

Old Adobe

January 27, 2015January 27, 2015 Timothy Price20 Comments

This is one of the old adobes on Corrales Road that I’ve been documenting for the past couple of years. This abandoned adobe house might be considered historic, so the owner may not be able to tear it down, and may be letting it deteriorate to the point it will fall down on it’s own, but that’s all speculation on my part. The north wall caved in a couple of years ago — you can see the north side of this house on my blog post from August 9, 2013 at http://photoofthedayetc.com/2013/08/09/old-adobes/.

Progress

January 24, 2015 Timothy Price18 Comments

Excavation for the Imperial Building (with grocery store) Monday, 19 January 2015. In the middle right, next to the fence, there is an old grease trap and other interesting things they’ve been digging up.

I’m taking weekly photos of the progress on the Imperial Building construction project going on behind our office. Today’s photos are from Monday, January 19th, and Friday, January 23rd. The middle photo shows our daily marking off of climbing the stairs in the New Mexico Bank & Trust Building (on the right in the first and last photos.

DSCF3004a — Marking off stair climbs. Six days and counting.

Excavation for the Imperial Building (with grocery store) Friday, 23 January 2015. In the lower left by the sunbeam, there is another old storage tank unearthed.

Zimmerman at Night

November 14, 2014 Timothy Price17 Comments

Laurie studies in the old part of the Zimmerman Library on UNM Campus while she waits for me to pick her up after work. Zimmerman Library was designed and built by John Gaw Meem in 1938, and it has been in continuous use for the past 76 years. Built in his famous Pueblo Style, Zimmerman is still the heart of UNM’s campus with over a million visits per year according to a booklet celebrating Zimmerman’s 75 years of history. You can read more about John Gaw Meem and the Zimmerman library at http://library.unm.edu/zimmerman75/meem.php.

You can see from Laurie’s interior photo and my exterior photo how Zimmerman’s high ceilings and incandescent lighting creates a warm, magical atmosphere that is calming and conducive to study. Although the study tables look empty, Laurie said there are students at nearly every table, but they are either sitting close to the walls or their backpacks and computers mark their presence.

The Lodge at Las Golodrinas

November 10, 2014 Timothy Price15 Comments

Photos of the interior of the lodge at las Golondrinas.

Abó Ruins

November 4, 2014November 4, 2014 Timothy Price34 Comments

The Spanish came into the Salinas Valley to the east of the Rio Grande Valley in what is now central New Mexico in 1581. The Franciscans began Christianizing the residents of Abó in 1622 and built their first church in the last half of the 1620’s. The remains of the second church built at Abó (pictured) have a sophisticated buttressing to stabilize the high walls that was very unusual for architecture in this area in the 1600’s. Abó was abandoned between 1672 and 1678 after a series of disasters struck the Salinas Valley.

A couple notable features about these ruins are 1) the church is oriented north and south instead of the east/west orientation commonly found in old and new Catholic churches in New Mexico. 2) There is a kiva on the east side of the church. Kivas are used by the Pueblo Indians for rituals and spiritual ceremonies generally associated with the Kachina belief. While the Spanish christianized the residents, they also let them practice their own rituals and spiritual ceremonies.

A18W2955 — Kiva in foreground on the east side of the church

Church at Las Golondrinas

October 7, 2014 Timothy Price34 Comments

One of the first buildings you come across at Ranchos de las Golondrinas is the church. The church is the north building of a hacienda that has a central plaza with a well in the center and hornos for baking. Note the church has a pitched, tin roof, but the other buildings have flat roofs. The church originally had a flat roof as well, and the tin roof would have been added after 1850 when New Mexico became a US territory which opened up trade and goods to come in from the Eastern US. The ceiling of the church still has the horizontal vigas (timbers) that supported the original flat, dirt roof.

The interior of the church has simple benches for pews, an artisan crafted retablo at the altar, and hand carved Stations of the Cross (the Stations of the Cross are a modern addition, according to a docent).

Las Golondrinas

October 5, 2014 Timothy Price17 Comments

Las Golondrinas is a living museum on a 200 acre site a few miles south of Santa Fe. They are having their annual harvest festival this weekend and all the sites and industries, set mostly around the early to mid 19th Century, are operating. We spent most of the day there yesterday, and I have a lot of photos to process, so for today, I have a few abstractly representative photos.