Valley Girl

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So charming Dana! Please be sure not to forget this thread when you have more photos! I live in one of the greenest pockets of New Mexico but it is also the darkest (in social climate).....it's beautiful but most here are land rich and money poor. There is nothing wrong with that of course (I prefer it actually) but then there are the drug and gang elements juxtaposed beside a long history of a beautiful self-sustaining rural community. There are multi-generational farmers and riff-raff. Sometimes they are one in the same! There are pockets of gang violence in this rural and beautiful setting. People tell me not to live there, but it's so gorgeous and rich in natural aesthetics and history. I'm not afraid to take all that good with a touch of bad....


Here..This photo is interesting. This is pretty close to my house on the side of a green country road. Kind of an example of the darkness in the beauty of this Valley that I'm talking about. Some people, depending on their beliefs I'm sure find it beautiful. I just think it's scary. My camera again- fails to capture the essence of this quite frightening *to me* piece of religious art but hopefully you can get the idea.