Who wants to see where I live?

[Betticus]

Okay, so not the place I live in. But the area. A guy I work with is a photographer and has his new website up. There are some really nice landscapes so if anyone is curious to see the part of the old west I live in follow the link.


http://www.reallynicephotos.com

 

[CutieMouse]

*****

 

[Betticus]

Thank you honey. I really needed something happy right now, and his photos are beautiful. The sunsets and the art glass were my favorites.

 

[melancholygirl]

Those are great!
I really liked the cemetery pics.
Thanks!

 

[Guest]

 

[dolf]

Who wants to see where I live?

me.
xx

 

[m wisdom]

Very nice photos. That Oak Alley is impressive.

 

[ethereal~minx]

Re: Who wants to see where I live?

http://www.reallynicephotos.com [/B][/QUOTE]

you respect my strength as much as your own Betticus~ no?
so if I look at your pix, what's in it for m/Me? *wink*

(I'm just playing with you and I expect nor wish no response...)

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Those are great!
I really liked the cemetery pics.
Thanks!

[mini-hijack]Thank you, melancholygirl, for spelling "cemetery" correctly. I get so tired of seeing it with an "a."[/mini-hijack]

 

[Betticus]

Re: Re: Who wants to see where I live?

Re: Who wants to see where I live?

http://www.reallynicephotos.com

you respect my strength as much as your own Betticus~ no?
so if I look at your pix, what's in it for m/Me? *wink*

(I'm just playing with you and I expect nor wish no response...) [/B][/QUOTE]

Nice disclaimer. You get to see some desert southwest scenery, some flowers and other good photos.

Now, one of my favorites is of some scrub growing out at the national park at White Sands.

That is not color tweaked sand, it is really that white. Some kind of calcium carbonate sand I think someone told me. I would have to research it if I were that curious.

The photo of the cat yawning at the zoo did win some prizes at the state fair as well as the one of the seal. Some of the landscapes also.

 

[Phalenopsis]

Very nice! Looking at those photos was like a little mini trip home for me! Now there is just that little detail of you sending me some of those green chilis!

 

[Betticus]

Very nice! Looking at those photos was like a little mini trip home for me! Now there is just that little detail of you sending me some of those green chilis!

They say that the green chile harvest this year was one of the best ever. Something about rain and sunlight being just right.

I have 20 pounds packaged up, fire roasted and in my freezer.

 

[Phalenopsis]

You can never have too much chili!

Here's the poem I mentioned before:

Green Chile
by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Actually, about four years ago
I started eating eggs with red chile,
and preferred red over my potatoes for breakfast.
Ristras decorate doors, roofs, eaves,
and open-air vegetable stands. With an air of festive,
historical grandeur, they gently swing in the breeze.
But look at them closely - haggard peppers,
yellowing, crisp, brittle, rasping curled tongues -
the green chile pepper,
ah, voluptuous, masculine,
an air of authority and youth simmers from its
swan-neck stem, tapering to a flowery collar,
fermenting a resinous spice,
like a well-dressed gentleman at the door,
my grandmother held sensually in her hand,
rubbing its firm glossed sides,
caressing the oily rubbery serpent,
with mouth-watering fulfillment,
fondling its curves with gentle fingers,
its bearing magnificent as the taut flanks of a tiger,
its whole body caught mid-air in a thrust
upon its prey, as my grandmother's knife blade cut
into its side, with lust on her hot mouth,
sweating over the stove, bandanna around her forehead,
a mysterious passion in her face,
as she served me green chile,
between soft warm leaves of corn tortillas,
with beans and rice - her sacrifice
to her little prince,
as I slurped up the juice from my plate
with the last of the tortilla, my mouth burned
as hissed coolness and drank a tall glass of cool water.

Now again, during August, sun-burned men driving rickety trucks
stuffed with gunny sacks of green chile from Belen fields,
set up road site stands, roast the green chile in screen-sided barrels,
and for a dollar a bag, let us relive the old ritual.