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Shuttered Albuquerque

16 Saturday May 2020

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New Mexico’s governor announced new reopening guidelines on Wednesday, May 13. As of Saturday, May 16, retail shops and some other gathering places, such as churches, may reopen with limited capacity and safety restrictions such as masks. I’d been wanting to document some of the closed shopping and tourist areas, so decided on Thursday that I would photograph some of them. It will be interesting to compare the landscapes a week from now as people tentatively venture out and a month from now when perhaps they will be more or less tentative. Pandemic history unfolding. [Click on images to view full sized.]

  • Shuttered Coronado Mall
  • Albuquerque Uptown – No admittance
  • Entrance to a very quiet Old Town
  • Closed and quiet
  • Empty Old Town Streets
  • San Felipe de Neri – Church built in 1793, still an active parish
  • For more than 300 years, “the spiritual heart of Albuquerque”
  • Closed – Public Masses resuming May 23-24, 2020
  • Old Town – Shuttered shops
  • Shopping alternatives
  • Maybe later for coffee
  • Come back later
  • Hope, love and faith – pandemic blessings
  • Shuttered Albuquerque Museum
  • Museum’s Sculpture Garden
  • Memories of better times
Shuttered Albuquerque

Random Pandemic Realizations

11 Monday May 2020

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Germophobes are vindicated.

Inside my head can be a scary place.

I’m sick of the “peeing section in the pool” metaphor.

Essential and dispensable should not be synonymous.

My belief that everything takes longer than you think it will and is harder remains unchanged.

We’re all finding out what we care most about.

Most common planning phrase, “When this is over….”

Most common communication complaint, “I’m sick of zoom.”

Pretty sure Ritz crackers have medicinal properties.