The train station.

We went out to Lamy, NM a few weeks ago to pick up our friend Stephanie who was arriving from NYC by train. She's doing a documentary about the Southwest Chief, a train that I have traveled on a few times myself.

I love going out to the train station. It's the original station which was built in 1880s. And there are just so many things to photograph out there.


Old rail cars.


The train tracks and the mountain views.


And watching the train arrive still makes me excited. It also makes me want to go somewhere by train myself!



I should probably go hang out at the train station more often. It's always so inspiring.

[Ha! I see that I said practically the same thing three years ago!]

Arriving in Lamy.

My dad picked us up at the train station in Lamy yesterday and he's so funny, he had his camera all ready for pictures.



The train rolling in.



I thought Will was right behind me, but he's such a gentleman, he let all the ladies off first. The cooler I have in hand is full of Will's straps from the moving truck, not Usinger's Sausage.



There's Will! You can see our conductor in the background. His name is Simon.

Yesterday we went to the train station

in Lamy (about 30 minutes outside of Santa Fe) to pick up our friend Stephanie.



It's a lovely old train station, built in 1880 and not much changed since then. We got there early and I shot a roll of film in Garret's Yashica which was fun. I don't get out with that camera enough and one day I am going to have to give it back! I also took a few digital shots because I always need a tiny bit of instant gratification. I think when we drop Steph off on Friday, I'll take the Polaroid Automatic 250 and shoot some Polaroid 100 Chocolate.

Will liked this big cloud so I took a picture of it for him.



It is an awfully nice cloud.

I liked the wooden benches inside of the station.



I also really liked the tile in the bathroom.



I even took a picture of myself in the mirror, something that I haven't done in a long time.



Pretty exciting, right?

Actually, it was fun to go out there. I love trains and watching the train from the west arrive and depart and then the train from the east (which Steph was on) arrive made me very excited about our upcoming train trip.

Will and I need to take field trips more often.

This morning it snowed for awhile although there wasn't much accumulation. We took Steph over to my parents' house and then strolled up Canyon Road. I took some polas but haven't scanned them yet. This afternoon she and Will have been hiding out in the studio recording songs and I started a new knitting project.

No complaints here.