Sunday, August 15, 2021

 We often do short trips to Truth or Consequences, NM to soak in the hot springs there. It is also a nice town to walk about. It's trying very hard to be an artist colony, and although there are lots of things going on in the arts, it is still basically a village of desert rats: Perfect! 


Dennis at the Riverbend Hot Springs Resort. There were some other people around and the pandemic is back. But most of the time we were wandering alone.



Driftwood sculpture: Horse and Wagon.



Mural of T or C painted on the back wall of an empty building - in the alley.



Sidewalk bench in front of an apartment.  



And a motel around the corner



On a partly cloudy day. 



Detail of a mural on Main St. 



Old, rusted and rotting Mormon cart, at the Geronimo Museum.



Mike with Geronimo at the city park on Main St. 



And with a Quail sculpture. 



Main St. (Note the spider on the wall.)



Like many downtown businesses, the Giddy Up is only open 3 days a week - when tourists are in town.



Now this is important: Many of the sidewalks are marked as having been laid by the WPA in 1939. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a Depression era public works program, like the CCC.



Wall art is scattered around town.






A BIG sunflower and bumblebee. 



And they even have Hummingbirds.







2 comments:

  1. Every photo was a delight.
    we’re headed to Glen Canyon Park for a hike. Amazing it’s a real Canyon located in the city of San Francisco.

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  2. So the WPA was fixing sidewalks the year I was born. Too bad my Mother didn’t apply for help because she had to carry me!

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