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We visited El Santuario de Chimayó last summer while we were in New Mexico....the fence that led up to the grounds from the parking lot was covered with crosses....mostly handmade....many just twigs and other natural items that visitors had left jammed in the fence...I always find such displays of faith, no matter what religion quite touching...

Some info I found on the web about this place:

Somewhere around 1810, a Chimayó friar was performing penances when he saw a light bursting from a hillside. Digging, he found a crucifix, quickly dubbed the miraculous crucifix of Our Lord of Esquipulas. A local priest brought the crucifix to Santa Cruz, but three times it disappeared and was later found back in its hole. By the third time, everyone understood that El Senor de Esquipulas wanted to remain in Chimayó, and so a small chapel was built on the site. Then the miraculous healings began. These grew so numerous that the chapel had to be replaced by the larger, current Chimayó Shrine -- an adobe mission -- in 1816.

Believed to be built on sacred earth with miraculous healing powers, the legendary shrine El Santuario de Chimayó, is probably the most visited church in New Mexico. The crucifix which began the original shrine still resides on the chapel alter, but for some reason its curative powers have been overshadowed by El Posito, the "sacred sand pit" from which it sprang. Each year during Holy Week thousands of people make a pilgrimage to Chimayó to visit the Santuario and take away a bit of the sacred dirt. Pilgrims walk a few yards or a hundred miles. Many claim to have been cured there of diseases, infirmities and unhappiness. The walls of the sacristy are hung with discarded crutches and before-and-after photographs as evidence of the healing.

Uploaded on Nov 17, 2008

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ic library...

felt the need for a bit of a change of pace, so dug back in my archives to Santa Fe....wanna meet me @ the ic library? ;-)

Santa Fe

Uploaded on Nov 17, 2008

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traces...

of fall....have i ever mentioned my obsessive love for the japanese maple tree in my front yard? I totally adore it ....took the above shot just this afternoon...so it is hot off the camera.
:-)

Memphis

Uploaded on Nov 16, 2008

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peak...

This shot was taking on one of Bailey's walks around my neighborhood...it is pretty much straight off the camera, I may have tweaked it just a bit...

Memphis

Uploaded on Nov 16, 2008

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circadian rhythm 2...

as a followup from my last posting...since I could not sleep I indulged in some online retail therapy...Karen, you were wondering what I bought.....a black velvet t-shirt thingy and some flannel pjs...
oh...and not to forget, that nikon d700 and new macbook pro for dear pebble... :-)

and yes, I'm a huge mac lover...I am so spoiled I have one upstairs in my bedroom (an old white one my dear brother brought back from the dead) and a black one downstairs.... I covet one of the new ones...

Memphis

Uploaded on Nov 15, 2008

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