Misc Photos

Best 12

Way back when, AKA 2018-2020, it used to be cool to post your top nine photos in a grid with their like count displayed prominently. There isn’t an Android app available anymore; I see links for the iOS platforms, but I have no idea if they are real. I can’t try it because I don’t have an iPhone…

Here’s my Best 12 of 2025. They have nothing to do with likes or views; these are just my favorites, one for each month.

There’s Something You Don’t See Every Day

telepoem booth

When I first noticed this in the lobby area of the Chavez Center while waiting for Santa Fe Sally to finish up her workout, I thought maybe it was an actual phone booth, but then I noticed that the word “phone” was misspelled as “poem.” Was it a joke? Or was that telepoem Spanish? I looked it up on the WWW, and lo and behold, it is a repurposed phone that has been converted into a jukebox-like device that lets you dial a number formatted like a phone number, and you get to hear a poem and have the old-school telephone experience.

Find one nearby on their website: http://www.telepoembooth.com/locations.html

Monument Valley

The View Hotel at Sunrise

This is my fourth visit here, and each time it is a different experience. They have each been slightly different times of the year, but never in the summer when it must be both too hot and crowded, always in the shoulder seasons. And the weather has varied, from hot to mild to this one’s cold and very breezy. I would like to visit again, and Sally is game, but it might not be until 2027.

I took forty-one photos today and promptly deleted a little over half of them. These eight, well nine, if you count the one at the top, are the cream of that crop.

Another Dull Day In The Life

Fall Morning Walk


The title says it all. Breakfast, get a latte, walk 3 miles, shop at Target, take a short random drive, start a new jigsaw puzzle, finish watching the 2nd season of Shrinking, watch the World Series, shower, bed.