Into Albuquerque - Photos

We left Austin in the fog. A mess at the baggage check in for American Airlines (only two check in agents for about four flights, and we missed our flight. We were in line 1 1/2 hours. They accomodated us on the next flight and we ended up only a couple of hours late to Albuquerque via Dallas. My suitcase, that caused us the long wait, arrived later in the evening, so we had to go back to the airport for it. It was a pretty good trip all in all. The agent, Lisa, in Austin that helped us with our re-booking and the people at American in Albuquerque were great.

Mom Frances was glad to see us. She is happy this morning receiving her birthday calls.

This is Jennie and Mom Frances in October this year. Happy Birthday Mom! She is 29 she says. Actually she is 92. She is so beautiful, looks younger than me! Party time tomorrow!!

This is just about the only time we saw the ground on our flight. These are the Manzano mountains with a sprinkling of snow on our approach to the ABQ (Albuquerque) airport.

And you know I would have to take a photo of the Ladron mountains about 60 miles to the south. In this link you can see a painting I did of the Ladrones and if you put Ladron in the search box above on my blog you will find this post an many more with the mountains. Gene says I have enough photos of them, well, we shall see.

This is Mt. Taylor to the west. It is about 90 miles out there near Grants, New Mexico. There were some snow flurries evidently.

And the view of Albuquerque.

We stopped to get some snacks for the room at Smith's grocery and the buildings in that area have the typical luminarias on the roofs. When you see those you know that you are in New Mexico for Christmas!