Here in southern New Mexico, land of
little rain
big sky
and sizzling green chile
We love our water
We love our blue skies
And we love our chile fields
When we see all three together
We stop and take pictures
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28 comments:
Beautiful captures, Clairz! Love those blue, blue skies and I, too, love the chiles!! Hope you have a lovely weekend!
Sylvia
Glad you got some of the wet stuff. These are wonderful vistas for New Mexicans.
I must have angered the rain gods cuz we (my neighborhood) hasn't gotten anything except sprinkles. Other parts of Burque got great buckets and splashes, but alas, I musta been a bad girl. Linda
Wonderful shots of the fields.
Beautiful scenes. Happy sky watching!
Liz @ A Simple Life
And I'm glad you DID stop to take this photo. :)
Great country side landscape. ^_^ And the sky is so blue looks like it going to be a hot day.
SWF
love the first shot a lot. happy skywawtching.
Beautiful captures,Clairz!have a great weekend and enjoy it!
There's going to be one heck of a pile of chilis when that crop comes in. I have one thai chili and one habanero plant in this years garden lol!
Clair, I just LOVE this post! :)
BTW, on my way back in Aug, I plan to drive thru Hatch- I believe it was "Sparky's" that you said had the best green chile cheese burger- am I correct?
Yes, Becky. Don't miss Sparky's! When you order a green chile cheeseburger they just call out to the cook: "One world's best!" Don't forget the green chile cheese fries. And the pineapple cole slaw. Oops, and the green chile mango shake. That ought to hold you!
These are great shots! I was just in Northern New Mexico and I think it's a beautiful state.
You have got that exactly right Clair! (Travelers would stop and take that picture too... because we love all those things as well).
wow! those are beautiful pictures.
A SAHM Reviews.Net
Beautiful photos, Clair. I love the second one, with the mountains!
— K
Kay, Alberta, Canada
An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous Travel
awesome shots! love your header btw...thanks for dropping by @ explorerminded.com
I am always shooting our fields here in the country so I really appreciate the beauty of these captures. Lovely photography. Genie
M
Terrific blue skies!
lovely shots
happy SWF
Beautiful and the skies are so blue.
That looks like a lot of water. Farmers happy?
Birdman, nope--the farmers are desperate for water. Their allotment from the irrigation district was something like 1/12 of what they would get in a normal year, and they still have to pay the same amount and then pay to pump from ground wells (or buy well water from neighboring farms). It's a dry, dry year.
Central Market puts on a Hatch Chili festival every year. These shots assure me that it's not far off, and maybe makes the summer feel a little shorter. Maybe.
It's a good thing them there peppers can take a bit of drought--mine are about the only denizens of the garden that haven't completely given up the ghost.
I can almost smell the aroma of green chili being roasted here in town! Thank you for you wonderful comment.
Beautiful shots, but what a waste of water where there is little rain! Flood-irrigation was phased out here quite some time ago. Water is a precious resource here and not to be wasted in needlessly being evaporated in this way.
Wonderful photos to illustrate your commentary!
Awesome captures!
Here's visiting late for SWF.
Hope to see you at my blog. :)
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Love your photos (and would love some chilis)! Always so pretty. Just wanted to let you know btw finally got the post up about my chicken nipples :0)
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