Rocking On

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock,
Perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two,
And I know it was not the last blow that did it,
But all that had gone before.
~Jacob August Riis ~

We have been rocking on this week. We have been very busy with activities around the house. The landscaping project wrapped up, thank goodness. It looks quite lovely with the sod extended into the backyard. We’ve also seen a lot of Builder Mike and his subcontractors this week, taking care of the final punch-out list for our home. Can you believe that we have lived here 11 months already? We also successfully weathered through the historic storm system that went through the southern states on Wednesday. It was worse than anything I ever saw during my college days in Kansas! Our thoughts and prayers are with our southern neighbors who are hurting right now.

Tonight, I am getting some pictures pulled together for tomorrow’s photo challenge post. I got all of my New Mexico journey images safely downloaded to my computer, organized them (notice that I didn’t say “processed”, LOL), and have them backed up. For tomorrow’s post, I am going to highlight a few from that bundle, just to give you a little taste. Come back tomorrow, OK?

You are probably wondering by now about the meaning of the images with this post! Well, here’s the story. We happened to go into a lovely shop in Old Town section of Albuquerque called Onyx Expressions. It is located just a short block off of the church square. We had a fun time visiting which the shop’s charming owner, Al, and admiring his artistic light fixtures made from onyx. I am a texture lover and my camera was handy, so I thoroughly amused myself by taking pictures of light filtering through the magnificent stones. Aren’t these textures incredibly stunning?

We talked with Al about photography at great length, and he graciously let me let me snap a lot of pictures. For his hospitality, I’m going to send him a DVD next week that has some of the photos I took in his shop. If you ever visit that area, please make a point of stopping in there! You won’t be sorry!

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