A really good example of being "off center and not even".

I photographed this car parked on Central Ave (Old Route 66) in Downtown Albuquerque from across the street. I didn't bother to cross the street and get closeups of details. I figured I could find out what kind of car it was by searching the web, but after not finding matches, I asked WCW, retired architect and car aficionado, and he came up with a Shelby Cobra. I looked up information on Shelby Cobras and this model, with the hard top, under body pipes and no scoop on the hood, most likely does not have the 427 cubic inch engine that they are famous for; therefore, it is still difficult to identify the type without the owner telling us what the year, series and engine size is.  We are guessing it is a very good replica or possibly a "Continuation car" with a 289 cubic inch engine produced by one of the Shelby licensed companies. Shelby started producing "Continuation cars" in the early 1980's. As of 2008 there had been 720 or so 427 CSX4000 series Continuation Cobras produced, according to a Cobra club discussion board I came across while looking up information on Shelby Cobras.

ESP

First Plaza

A three point play

Love in the twilight

Sunset

This bronze plaque on the old Sears Building on the corner of 5th Street and Central Ave (Old Route 66) in Downtown Albuquerque gives a brief history of Albuquerque from 1946 when the photo on the plaque was taken to 1950. Notice there is a small sign on the Kimo Theater that reads "KGGM CBS". I assume KGGM's radio studios were in the offices on the west side of the Kimo Theater in 1946. At that time KGGM was a CBS radio affiliate at 1260 on the AM dial. In the early 1950's, KGGM became a Channel 13 CBS affiliate television station, KGGM-TV. Today it is still Channel 13, but the call letters have changed to KRQE-TV.

Closeup of the photo taken in 1946.

I took this photo from the same corner this afternoon at 2:47 PM. Most of the same buildings still line Central Ave in 2017 — some have had minor changes to their exteriors, others major changes, and a few buildings have been replaced since 1946. The "KRESS" sign at the top of the the KRESS building (mostly covered by the traffic light in today's view) looks to have endured the years, and the "KIMO" sign was redone to be close to the original. Otherwise, all the signs have changed and the buildings have been modernized. Yet there is still a sense of the old Route 66 from the days when KGGM was 1260 on the AM dial and Central would be a traffic jam of cars and trucks at three o'clock on a Monday afternoon.

I was awakened by colors brewing in the eastern sky. I extracted myself from the furry purrs snuggled in from head to toe, slipped on a pair of shoes, and grabbed my camera as I walked outside into a cool stillness at sunrise.  I walked only a few steps from the deck to face the misty purple mountains, behind lacy cottonwoods, under pastel colored clouds, softened by the winds blowing from the heavens above. I stood in the calm morning light and watched clouds erupt over the crest before they spilled down the face of the mountains where they turned into a soft purple mist. Tristan called to ask if I had seen the clouds on the Sandias. She said it was too cold and windy to ride her motorcycle. Not a dry leaf stirred or blade of yellow grass twitched in the stillness of the colorful early morning quickly turning gray — we were spared the strong easterly winds that blew in town.

Chopper and beer

Renovation

@#%&!#© paparazzo!

Whoa! Street poetry.

Get your kicks, Asian food, massage and indian jewelry on Route 66

Beer and more behind the green door

Beer and bike

Waiting for the moon to rise, we watched the Sandias as crows flew by.

Crows fly off into the sunset over cranes settled in to roost for the night.

The Snow Moon was supposed to be mostly eclipsed when it rose, but it was bright and white as snow once it cleared the Sandias.

Laurie and my camera lit up by the snow moon as they watched it rise.

Snow moon behind clouds through the trees.

Moon just after it cleared the Sandias. The moon in the middle is a reflection off the UV filter on the lens.

Snow moon behind a thin veil of clouds.

On my way home today at 6:01:09 PM.

We see and hear fewer and fewer cranes these days as they are starting to make their way northward to Canada where they will breed and spend the summer months before flying south again. We typically start seeing Sandhill Cranes around mid to late October and they are normally all gone by the end of February.
 

There's a bunny in plain view in each of these photos. Can you find the bunny?