Filled with Faith

For the past two weeks I have been working on a story on the Church of San José. It is a small little adobe Catholic church in the South Valley here in Albuquerque. The majority of parishioners are Mexican immigrants. The church is so popular in the area that the parish has out grown their church. There is standing room only on Sundays. And to take pictures during Palm Sunday I had to attend two masses because I couldn't move once I was in place. I grew to love the church and the people and hope they didn't mind me being there. The story and photos ran today, Easter Sunday, on A1.

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Tomé Hill

Pilgrims from surrounding cities make their way to the top of Tomé Hill every Good Friday morning. People walk for miles as local police close roads nearby due to the high amount of human traffic. Crosses and statues are carried to the top, but the most popular item carried along the way is a rosary. Many are left behind at the top after a person has finished praying. A few people walk the steep and rocky 1/2 mile path to the top barefoot and one man even crawls the entire way on hands and knees. It was pretty amazing to experience.

Cold Easter

Chirping Feature...

I saw the feed store sign announcing "the chicks are here" so I spent an hour and a half waiting around for a customer to at least come in and look at the chicks. Only one did but she didn't want to be in the paper. Argh. I hate that answer, doesn't everyone want to be in the paper at some point? Maybe not. But they should.
One chick kept getting her head stuck in between the wires, even though the others figured out how to poke their heads out and bring them back in. I could see this little one getting exhausted from trying to pull her head back in so I had to help. I some how pulled the wires apart just enough and poked her so she would try again. Success.