In late May we were in Albuquerque for over a week for the surgery, hospital stay, and time to begin to heal before traveling. Then Michael spent a month back in Las Cruces continuing to heal. We took short walks every day in the cool of the morning. Last week we went back to Albuquerque for a one month follow-up with Michael's surgeon. These photos were taken over that time period.

Albuquerque

View from our hotel room

Free breakfast at the Holiday Inn

Long hours of waiting

Hotel corridor at the Holiday Inn

Second breakfast at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Bronze sculpture of Native American woman at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center

The Albuquerque Museum

La Virgen de Guadalupe

Contemporary Mimbres-style Pottery

Bronze raven on museum roof

A Shower in a Dry Year - painting by Peter Hurd

Karl - painting by Andrew Wyeth

Message from a concerned parent

Back in Las Cruces

Colorful adobe house in Mesilla

Torch Cactus bloom

Hedgehog Cactus blooms

Organ Mountains at sunrise

Curve-billed Thrasher

Great Roadrunner

Organ Mountains and field of Golden Poppies

Organ Mountains and dust storm

Organ Mountains with storm clouds at dawn

A pre-dawn walk in the neighborhood

Home Sweet Home