Santa Fe Bum. Circa 2008. The other side of Santa Fe.

The "Sustainable" Santa Fe River? Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In Santa Fe, New Mexico circa 2008: The popular mantra was "Sustainable Santa Fe." Imagine my shock and disappointment when I arrived downtown strolling along an elegant and popular tourist promenade, a few feet from the Hilton and other high end hotels to glance from the bridge down into the Santa Fe River to discover it awash with garbage and a shopping cart!

The Ancient Bloomingburg Tree and Freedom and the Pursuit of Cadillacs

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 "The Bloomingburg Tree." An ancient Oak said to be five hundred years old but probably more realistically two hundred. It was once one of the oldest Oak trees in New York State. The cemetery obviously provided good fertilizer. For many years this tree was tended by caretaker John Calvin Roe, owner of the very popular Quickway Diner. Roe was murdered in 1986.This great landmark tree was
struck by lightning and destroyed shortly thereafter.
   This type of very old, massive spreading Oak is the kind of Oak tree which was worshiped by the
Druid cults of ancient Britain. The majority of the graves gathered around this tree are those of the descendants of those long disappeared and mysterious pagan Britons.

 "Freedom and the Pursuit of Cadillacs." Digitally enhanced c-print. 2012.