I was watching an auto auction show on television last week , mostly because there was nothing else interesting on and because it was still too hot to do much outdoors.
During the show, a Chevrolet dealership somewhere in New York, ran an ad boasting that they sold more Corvettes than any other dealership in the country. Part of the ad showed arrows from cities around the nation pointing to the dealership, ostensibly portraying the mass migration of people to buy Corvettes from there.
Albuquerque was one of the points of origin on the map. Only whoever drew up the map apparently didn’t do well in geography. The state’s largest city was spelled: “Alberquerque.”
Then while reading some reviews about the new movie “Oppenheimer,” one writer noted that NBC announced that the first atomic bomb was actually exploded in Los Alamos.
I think we would have noticed that, although the fairly recent Cerro Grande fire made the surrounding forest look like an atomic blast had happened there sometime in the past.
At any rate, I never cease to be amazed by the fact that we’re constantly confused with Arizona or we’re considered to be a foreign country.
And, of course, I’m always finding maps or souvenirs of New Mexico displaying a saguaro cactus.
Maybe they spotted this one just a few blocks from my house.
They can grow here, given enough protection from cold weather. And who knows, with this summer’s heat, maybe we’ll have a saguaro forest surrounding us soon.
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