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a few photos from Farmington and Shiprock

hi all. here’s a few photos from last week — with some more recent photos to come soon…hello weekend! Monday is my “Friday,” my last day of work before my days off, so i feel a little guilty being in such a TGIF mentality. i just hope i get weekend weather — it threatened to snow here a couple times last week.

enjoy the photos.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Tanitha Holyan, 11, walks home over two miles away with her brother, 6-year-old Gabriel Scott, along Navajo Route 571 after being dropped off by separate buses Thursday outside Shiprock. A change in some of the Central Consolidated School District bus routes, adding several miles to some children's walk between their bus stop and home, has raised concerns from community members over the safety of the affected students.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Six-year-old Morgan Cristello, who plays on the PB&J youth girls softball team, runs through a gauntlet of high-fives from local high-school players on Monday at Ricketts softball field No. 3, during the opening ceremony for the Four Corners Fast Pitch Association.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Piedra Vista shortstop Sheasia Yazzie, center, shows her enthusiasm for the procession of young girls running through as part of the opening ceremony for the Four Corners Fast Pitch Association on Monday at Ricketts softball field No. 3. Yazzie said the flowers she is holding were a gift from her "best bud," 10-year-old Hannah Sayyeau.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Officer Tayna (CQ) Benally, center, and Sgt. Ron Foreman, both with the New Mexico State Police, investigate the scene of a two-vehicle collision Sunday at the intersection of County Road 7010 and N.M. 371. A man, not involved in the accident, stands behind the vehicle that struck a car that failed to yield while trying to cross N.M. 371.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Special Olympics New Mexico San Juan County participant Tanisha Lewis, right of center, reacts after hearing she was named athlete of the year Friday at Heights Middle School during the opening ceremony for the area Special Olympic meet.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Three-year-old Sam Dearing, center, of Farmington, waves excitedly to his family while getting a lift on a 60-foot crane operated by San Juan Signs' Ramon Gonzales on Saturday at McGee Park during the Farmington Moms’ Club Touch-a-Truck charity event benefiting ECHO Food Bank.

update on first week’s work, and more…

CAUTION!!!

this post seems extremely long, but it’s all photos. I guess that’s not really caution-worthy — false alarm.

here’s some work from the first week, and today. i love it. people actually go to the website here (www.statesman.com), and often. so far so good, except for my car breaking! not so bad, it’s probably the CV joint (i hear), and it’s a cheap (relatively) fix.

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finally! i’m feeling like things are starting to click a little more starting today.

i think i’m starting to warm up a bit more to stills again. i’d like to think i work hard at what i do and, as with anything, if you haven’t done something for awhile, it can be rough going when you start up again. BUT WAIT! let not talk too soon.

6/3/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Adam Stern of Vintage Material Supply ties pecan tree logs to his trailer at the construction site on Barton Springs Road to take to their mill Tuesday.

6/3/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Blackshear Elementary School had their end of the year celebration Tuesday. They recently had a large canopy installed on their grounds, making the celebration more comfortable than previous years according to Amy Hagen, director of elementary schools for Communities in Schools. From right, Louisa Trevino (Perez’s mother), Louisa Perez (3) and Irene Hernandez (8, Perez’s cousin) hold hands while playing a game called they called the hula hoop drop.

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6/2/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Vietnam War veteran Bobby Briscoe, center laughs with fellow veterans APD officer M. Drabek and Fred Castaneda at the Vietnam War veterans memorial at Interstate 35 and East Cesar Chavez Street on Monday.

6/2/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Vietnam War veteran Tony Martinez, right, stands with Fred Castaneda at the Vietnam War veterans memorial at Interstate 35 and East Cesar Chavez Street on Monday.

6/2/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; William Broadhurst, who just turned 103 years old, laughs with Beckett Meadows senior home Volunteer MaryAnn Maziasz at his birthday celebration Monday.

5/30/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Dripping Springs Lady Tigers’ senior Paige Sandahl strikes out to end the game against Nederland, while during the 4a semifinal game Friday at UT. Nederland won 1-0. Nederland catcher Lindsey Rossi runs to join her teammates in celebrating the win.

5/30/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Nederland Bulldog pitcher Caitlin Austin, left, and catcher Lindsey Rossi celebrate their win after the 4a semifinal game Friday at UT. Nederland won 1-0.

5/30/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Dripping Springs senior Brittany Connors, left, hugs the Lady Tigers’ assistant coach Sherilyn Beard after they lost to the Nederland Bulldogs 1-0 during the class 4A UIL semifinals Friday at UT.

5/30/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Linda, a former coach at Niderland, and Henry Pinner of talk about the heat during a lull in action at the 4a semifinal game Friday between Dripping Springs and Nederland at UT. Nederland won 1-0.

5/31/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Nederland senior Katelyn Worsham, left, reacts after she is slid into by Aledo senior Cristina Kelley during Saturday’s Class 4A championship at UT’s McCombs Field.

5/31/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Aledo Lyndi Samuelson, left, tries to steal second during the top of the 10th inning Saturday’s Class 4A championship at UT’s McCombs Field. Nederland junior Ashleigh Kuhn, right, missed the tag, but a moment later got the out as Samuelson slid past second base. Umpire Mickey Espinoiza makes the call.

5/31/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Aledo Lyndi Samuelson tries to steal second during the top of the 10th inning Saturday’s Class 4A championship at UT’s McCombs Field. Nederland junior Ashleigh Kuhn, left, missed the tag, but a moment later got the out as Samuelson slid past second base.

5/31/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Huntington senior Mallory Brandenburg, left, slides into home and takes out Texarkana Liberty senior Heather Reynolds to score the game’s only run. The Huntington Devilettes beat the Texarkana Liberty-Eylau Leopards 1-0 for the Class 3A championship Saturday at UT’s McCombs Field.

5/31/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Huntington head coach Ruth Wright, upper left, celebrates winning the Class 3A championships withher team on Saturday. The Huntington Devilettes beat the Texarkana Liberty-Eylau Leopards 1-0 at UT’s McCombs Field.

5/31/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Huntington head coach Ruth Wright celebrates winning the Class 3A championships with game MVP sophomore Carlie Thomas on Saturday. The Huntington Devilettes beat the Texarkana Liberty-Eylau Leopards 1-0 at UT’s McCombs Field.

5/31/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Texarkana Liberty-Eylau Leopards senior Hailey White talks on the phone after leaving the field at the end of the Class 3A championship on Saturday. The Huntington Devilettes beat the Texarkana Liberty-Eylau Leopards 1-0 at UT’s McCombs Field.

here is the first spot event i covered. thanks to Jay Janner for giving me something to do during a lull in the day.

i arrived toward the end of the TV station’s coverage, and found it to be difficult to find a frame that would capture the event. i ended up liking the following photo best, and that ran online as a ‘Photos of the Day’ photo. the photo after that, of the two officers talking, is what ran in the paper. it definitely is more newsy, but i think i like the first photo better.

5/29/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Shonta Wright, sister of a man shot outside an apartment on Springdale Road, waits to to see if the children of her sister, who was a witness, can leave the scene with her. She is on a cell phone with her sister in this photo.

5/29/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Lt. Jason Dusterhoft, right, talks with officer D. Clinkscales at a crime scene on Springdale Road on Thursday. A man was shot outside an apartment near the officers.

5/28/08 Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Krystal Mutters, 16, puts flowers in her cap after a tour at the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. She is part of a group of patients from the Children’s Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center who are on a three-day trip visiting Austin and San Antonio.

5/28/08 Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Patients from the Children’s Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center prepare to leave the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center after a tour and art class. The group is on a three-day trip visiting Austin and San Antonio.

The painting behind them is of Ladybird Johnson.

5/28/08 Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Chris Levack stands under his scuplture Wigwam after installing it Wednesday at Mueller’s Southwest Greenway.

5/28/08 Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Jose Villa of Alamo Crane jumps down from the crane he operated to help install Chris Levack’s scupltures, Wigwam and Pollen Grain, at Mueller’s Southwest Greenway on Wednesday. Pollen Grain is the sculpture in the background.

5/28/08 Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Rafael Mendosa welds pieces for Chris Levack’s Wigwam scuplture at Mueller’s Southwest Greenway on Wednesday.

YEAH! and here’s my first photo printed at the Statesman. the story it went with happened to be the business section centerpiece. Yes, it is a portrait:

5/28/08 Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Viktors Berstis, a senior software engineer engineer and ‘master inventor’ for IBM, in front of computers hooked up to the World Community Grid.

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