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Marti Reed
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4thGen Scandihoovian NewMexican, daughter of the WeatherWizard (had a TopSecret Security Clearance for 40+ years), Highland HS Class of ‘69. BA in SW Archaeology. UCC/UU Minister for 30 years. Mom & mom-in-law of 2 Fed Employees & we’re going through it!
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This has been a truly difficult year 4 me, on top of the chaos we’re ALL going thru. But there HAVE been joys! For the first time in 5 years, the leaves on my fruitless mulberry trees turned #bright gold be4 the 1st winter storm turned them dead & black & they fell off the trees!
💛💛
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November 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
From the south
September 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Just recalled (while eating) 2 of my best pix of sidewalk life in Burque’s Nob Hill area. Taken w/one of my fave lenses that I couldn’t afford so I sometimes rented it. W/the Canon EF24-105 f4L IS USM lens, my Rebel took GREAT images! Been thinking of looking 4 a used one!
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August 31, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Paris has all kinds of tempting displays in myriad boutiques filled w/shiny objects. Of course Miss Berra photographed them! I think it’s time to end a week of finding lots of shiny things, re-organizing, cleaning, labeling & describing them, and forgetting to eat! 🤷‍♀️
HASTA!

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August 31, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I love it when monsoon season rains down on my greenhouse at sunset. I took this photo exactly a year ago at 7 PM. My dad was a wine connoisseur who FILLED the greenhouse w/wine bottles full of water 2 warm it in winter while fruitless mulberries cool it in summer! It works!
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August 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is my current fave rendition of my 2000 France photos. I decided to quit worrying so much about the weird colors & purple shadows & just let it softly emerge. Boats floating between us & the Eiffel w/the domed Ecole des Beaux Artes & its bridge crossing to the Louvre.

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August 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A foggy, sunny, blustery, chilly Halloween 2007 day at Lake Annecy in eastern France. The lake sources the River Thiou, which runs thru Annecy, known as The Venice of the Alps. Fortunately, the folks of Annecy enjoy celebrating Halloween! Photos by Miss Berra who loves travel!
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August 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Bernalillo County Government Center, Downtown Burque in April 2003, with my very first digital camera, a pocket-sized Fuji. I love photographing certain kinds of buildings, although I haven’t been downtown in ages!
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August 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Pont Bonaparte over the Saone in Lyon, taken by Miss Berra in 2007, while she attended college there. First built in 1634, it was destroyed & rebuilt CONSTANTLY.
The current version was built in 1950 after it was bombed in WW2. Processing her photos really helps me do mine!
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August 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
How the French enjoyed summer vacation traveling around their beautiful country in 2000! We saw lots of these! This was at the Chenanceau Castle, which was unfortunately closed when we got there. 😼😼😼
But aren’t those trees great?

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August 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Passerelle (Foot Bridge) Debilly crosses the Seine NE of the Eiffel Tower, between Palais de Tokyo & Museum of Modern Art on the left & Musee de Quai Brandy-Jacques Chirac (looks like a big book) on the right in 2000. I’m learning how 2 process my old film photos in Lightroom!
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August 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
My Red Chile Ristra hanging from my front porch, September 2009. I mean, how could I not??!

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August 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Duckies in the lake near Myrhorod, in Central Ukraine, August 2011, by MissBerra. She was visiting a friend near there for several weeks. Her beautiful photos of such a beautiful country both inspire & sadden me. I have NO IDEA if those places and people even exist any more.

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August 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My favorite picnic table in Burque at Eunice Kalloch Park via a double exposure using the Argentum App (which I LOVE). It is RIGHT across the street from the house I lived in for 20 years & “walked” my cats there every day. I still hang out there a lot & take weather photos!

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August 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Antique Car Show at Manzano del Sol in Burque 2006. My mom lived there for ten years & I photographed EVERYTHING. I made/sold cards, which I mostly did in a more artsy illustration style which prints better on matte paper than regular photos.

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August 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Sunset at Double Eagle Airport, December 2009. Our local Burque Flickr group spent the day there & had so much fun doing it!

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August 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Side Channel of the Rio Grande in the Bosque back in 2006 when MissBerra & her dad & I explored it. Her hubs now manages this currently mostly dry stretch & it’s fishies for US Fish & Wildlife & he’s really worried and depressed about it.
#NMwx

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August 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Good Morning BlueSkyArtShow! I seem to have focused on water a lot this week for some reason! It’s hot out & New Mexico seems to have either way too much or nothing at all of it this year! Drink your water today!

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August 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Miss Berra w/our favorite Church on Earth, Christmas 2007- keeping her spirits up a month after her Best Grampa Ever flew into the next realm. What a time it was! Speaking of time, it’s time for me to stop & get a bunch of stuff done B4 we head 2 the Drag Brunch 2morrow!
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August 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
As everybody in Europe was celebrating all the Winter Holidays, folks were partying in Tivoli Gardens and the Moulon Rouge in Paris and she got these photos from her teensy-tiny Nikon CoolPix!

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August 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Miss Berra took these photos at sunset in London on my birthday in 2007. I love how she captured both the simplicity of the silhouette of the Ferris wheel in front of the fiery sunset & the mechanical complexity of everything and everybody making it all work!

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August 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
La Cologne in Place Vendome in Paris. This was the 3rd photo I took after we landed in Paris that morning after flying in from Burque via St. Luis & New York City over 3 days. And after gettinlost trying to find our hotel. It helps me orient myself looking at the maps!
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August 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Headed for the Louvre on a hot summer day in August 2000. With the bright overhead sun and light filtered through the pyramid, the colors were a beast to manage inn post-processing. We stayed at a hotel on Rue St Honore, an easy walk from the Louvre and other great spots!

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August 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Looking up at and down from that balcony at Rocamador in France where we had dinner and I photographed Miss Berra & her Grampa in 2000. Photographed by moi on film & processed in my ancient Lightroom 5 on my ancient iMac.

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August 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM