Today's photos are of the original found cross. i had not been here in Albuquerque (ABQ) long, when a friend came to pick me up for a welcoming gathering at a parishioners home. i asked her what the cross was on the top of the mountain. When she was able to eyeball it, seeing as she was driving, she said "I have lived here my whole life and I have never noticed that cross there, but it is clear as day." i do not have a fancy camera with telephoto lens to take a shot of the cross on a 10,000 foot mountain, called the Sandia Mountains. These shots can only give a bit or small glance of that big cross.
Well, as i discovered several months later that the cross matches up with rock formation on the horizontal bar, but the vertical bar follows the path of the world's longest Tram from the base of the mountain then up to top of the mountain. In the winter, people take the Tram up and then ski on the other side of the mountain.
As a side note and/or a bit of ABQ history, did you know that sandia is the Spanish word for watermelon? Well it is. If you were thinking like me, you would wonder why anyone name's a mountain after watermelon. Well it took a few months for me to see exactly why that the Sandia Mountains are so named. At a point in the sunset, the mountain looks beautifully red with the evergreen and other green growths' looking like seeds in the watermelon.
May you cross a creative inkling today.
LFS, liz
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