Badlands Broken Beauty
FIRST CAME AN UNSUCCESSFUL scouting trip, then several days poring over Google Earth, and now I’ve finally nailed down what I think is the location of a mythical place called “Hoodooville.” The winter…
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Posts From: April 2020
New Mexico Magazine True Heroes
Above: Ralph Martinez (back, left) and a host of others assembled 30 care boxes and delivered them to families and seniors in need. Photo by Aaron Leon Lopez If there’s something to hold onto amid…
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The Art of Healing
Above: Flags line a walkway leading to the memorial’s Peace and Brotherhood Chapel. Photograph by Richard Wong/Alamy. VISITORS TO THE Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Angel Fire are greeted by Dear Mom &…
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Feeding Time
THE MORNING IS QUIET as my husband and I make the drive down NM 14 from Santa Fe to San Marcos Cafe & Feed Store for breakfast. The muted gray hue of the early-spring sky accentuates the gold tones…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing
Above: Illustration by Chris Philpot. WELL, THEY ARE WORLD FAMOUS Kateri Osburn lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she thought she had struck gold upon finding a jar of Hatch chopped green…
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Colonial Cartographer
Above: Miera y Pacheco's map. Photograph courtesy of the New Mexico History Museum. Don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco won 18th-century renown as a soldier, explorer, cartographer, and remarkable…
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Five Things To Do This Weekend
Whew! Hopefully, you’re over the Zoom hiccups, finding joy in morning walks with the dogs, and slowing down a bit. But you could also be just a tad stir-crazy, missing your routine, and worrying…
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Five Instagram Accounts Keeping Us Connected
Above: One of the best parts of early mornings on the Rio Grande is the migratory birds. Photograph by Aaron Blanc. If we’re doing this right, we’re staying at home and keeping our distance. So we…
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This Land Is Your Land
Above: Late winter grasses at the Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Complex. Photographs by Stefan Wachs. HIS TEAM HAD JUST PLOWED the last of the corn into the soil, Milnor Lucero says, almost apologetically…
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