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[…] -Related to Arriving Albuquerque From Seat 21A. […]
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I like that you put your seat number with this photo. I have a boarding pass (Seat 15D) hanging on my bulletin board. It’s been there for months…a story waiting to be written about the man next to me in 15C. Thanks for the reminder.
I also liked seeing what you saw out of your airplane window that means home. Flying home to Albuquerque is completely different than flying home to Maine or Minneapolis or Memphis. And the river bed and what surrounds it give you that wonderful sense of comfort when you’re putting your seat belt on for landing. This is what home looks like in your eyes.
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I’m so glad you commented on Arriving Albuquerque. Perhaps for most people the Rio Grande (as a core geographic landmark to Albuquerque) is not as spectacular as Mount Hood (as a core geographic landmark to Portland), but to me seeing that vast table with the vein running through it–it is home, and home is beauty.
Thanks for picking up on that.
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Jim says this must be the Rio Puerco, not the Rio Grande. Not enough trees.
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ybonesy: a comment Sinclair made today about his post reminded me that I had wanted to comment on this post, but forgot until now.
When I woke up that morning and saw both of these photographs, I was going to comment on the river in this one – but then I realized that I wasn’t sure if it was the Rio Grande. So I hesitated — and took a gamble on Mount Hood. 8)
I am just as drawn to rivers as I am to mountains. And find them to be spectacular in their own way: fluid, dynamic, lazy, swift, winding, with the power to make great change to the landscape. Just wanted you to know – I love your river.
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Ditto. When Jim and I first started looking for our first home to buy some 17 years ago, we couldn’t decide whether we were river people or mountain people. Cultural differences having to do with agriculture, I suppose, but also predominant landscape and how that influences one artistically, aesthetically, and other ways.
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[…] It was dark and bumpy flying into Albuquerque tonight, but it gave me peace of mind knowing el Rio Grande was below me. (The photo is from last week’s daytime flight.) […]
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ybonesy, you bring up another good point about the way the landscape we grow up with impacts our writing and art, and what constitutes beauty for us. The whole idea of place is very powerful. And a lot of memoirs are rooted there. Others don’t mention it at all. I think there are people who simply don’t connect at all to the land, skies, rivers and earth around them. I think they are really missing out on something good.
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[…] by ybonesy’s Arriving Albuquerque From Seat 21A and Leaving Portland From Seat 21A, I wanted to post Liz’s aerial shots from her trip last […]
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[…] It was dark and bumpy flying into Albuquerque tonight, but it gave me peace of mind knowing el Rio Grande was below me. (The photo is from last week’s daytime flight.) […]
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