May Celebrations

Pecan pie for the birthday boy

May was a full month, full of celebration and new settings -- starting with a 90th birthday celebration for my father, followed by a national retreat for Mennonite Spiritual Directors in Albuquerque, and then a week of vacation exploring the new-to-us wonders of New Mexico. And then returning to find that spring had arrived exuberantly in northern Indiana, so that we've been playing catch up on yard and garden work and our regular work ever since. This post is a brief overview -- each photo has at least another post's worth of photos to accompany it at a later date.

From the MSDN retreat in Albuquerque

Sunset from our airbnb casita in the Sandia foothills

A drive north, past Jemez Pueblo, the Valles Calderas, Bandelier, and back down via Santa Fe, stopping to enjoy the fresh green growth near the Jemez river, in the midst of a desert land

Hiking the slot canyon at the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument

Our second airbnb was on an alpaca farm south of Socorro

Just before sunrise at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge