Catopia Cat Café/ Albuquerque, New Mexico
Posted: March 5, 2019 Filed under: cats | Tags: Albuquerque, cats, New Mexico Leave a commentErnest Hemingway once said “Time spent with a cat is never wasted.” Customers at Catopia Cat Café in Albuquerque, New Mexico can spend as much time as they want with about a dozen adoptable cats while having coffee and browsing the web. Internet coffee shops that have cats up for adoption is a new trend in the U.S. Right now, there are about one hundred cat cafés around the country. Café customers can get to know the cats that they might want to take home in the open space of the coffee shops.
Catopia’s manager, Sandy Dierks, said “They can kind of show their personalities in a bigger environment like this and wander around and play, and people can see a little more what they’re like.” The cats that are up for adoption have been neutered, micro-chipped, vaccinated, and have had a check-up from a veterinarian.
Catopia’s patrons find the presence of playful cats to be a stress reliever. Dierks told us “People, like students, can do their work on their laptops and we have free Wi-Fi and you can just get some work done while hanging out with a cat on your lap. It’s a lot more relaxing than other environments.”
All of the drinks and snacks are pre-packaged to insure cleanliness. The coffee is made from sealed pods. There are two sets of doors that can only be opened one at a time to keep cats from running outside into a busy shopping center. There is “cat furniture” throughout the café that allows the cats to climb up the walls or scurry through tunnels.
Catopia has only been open for a few months but has had seventeen cats adopted, as well as a positive local response. Dierks told us “We’ve had a ton of support from the community, people coming out and just wanting to help get these guys homes and just support our business and make a go of it, so it’s been, it’s been really wonderful.”
-Richard Lakin
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Buffalo with an approaching snowstorm/ Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico
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Supernationals car show/ Albuquerque, New Mexico
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The high desert in winter/ Zia, Jemez, and Sandia Pueblos, New Mexico
Posted: December 29, 2018 Filed under: deserts | Tags: deserts, New Mexico, pueblos, snow Leave a comment
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Hummingbird/ This morning in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array/ Central New Mexico
Posted: July 2, 2018 Filed under: deserts | Tags: desert, New Mexico, radio telescope, southwest, The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Leave a commentThe Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array is a radio astronomy observatory located in central New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin, and was a location in the movie “Contact.” It is on a fairly isolated high desert plateau (about 7,000 ft.) and surrounded by mountains, making it an ideal spot to avoid the normal wireless interference in cities. The lack of humidity in the air also makes for a clearer radio signal. There is no cell service there and visitors are asked to put their phones in airplane mode.
The array is routinely re-configured to cover different parts of the sky by moving the dishes on a network of railroad tracks.
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Desert Rose in bloom/ Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Gathering of Nations/ Albuquerque, New Mexico
Posted: April 29, 2018 Filed under: deserts, world travels | Tags: Albuquerque, deserts, Gathering of Nations, indigenous, native, New Mexico, pow wow Leave a commentBilled as the “The Biggest Pow Wow in North America,” the Gathering of Nations brings together participants from Indigenous Nations all over Canada, the US, and Mexico.
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View of mesas on San Ildefonso Pueblo/ from Los Alamos, New Mexico
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Desert Life
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Near Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico
Grand Canyon, Arizona
Strait of Hormuz, Oman
Mariachi/ Old Town Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sonoran Desert/ Arizona
Dune riding/ Arabian Desert, United Arab Emirates
A light snow on the high desert/ Sandia Reservation, New Mexico
Sunset/ near Tecolote, New Mexico
University Campus/ Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Sandia Mountains/ New Mexico
Dia de Los Muertos/ Albuquerque, New Mexico
Burj Khalifa/ Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Garage mural/ Albuquerque, New Mexico
View of Dubai, enshrouded in humidity, from Palm Island/ United Arab Emirates
Grand Canyon, Arizona
Piña Blanca, New Mexico
Hospitality/ Casa Blanca, Morocco
Waterfall, Dubai Mall/ United Arab Emirates
Buffalo, Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico
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Dia de Los Muertos y Marigolds Parade & Celebration
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