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After a blustery and rainy afternoon, we were treated to a nice sunset.
Red Rock Park
Gallup, New Mexico
October 3, 2025
Nest of the Bald-faced Hornet, which is really a kind of aerial yellowjacket and not closely related to the "true" European Hornet. These nests are within a few dozen yards of the nest fragment I photographed last year. Now that winter winds have removed the leaves, it is much easier to see them. But sometimes those same wind damage the nests severely. New nests are built every year.
This species is black and white, rather than black and yellow like other yellowjackets, which nest below ground.
They are said to be "aggressively defensive". But because their nests are fairly high in trees and usually away from habitations, I don't think they are usual culprits in "wasp stings" at picnics.
The burrowing yellowjackets are notorious for attacking picnics, where they are attracted to meat, sugar, and water. They have been known to crawl inside soda cans, with very unpleasant results for the drinker.
here's a cool link:
www.boredpanda.com/colorful-paper-wasp-nests-rainbow-matt...
The yard in Gallup, NM contained numerous GP60M-3s, but only this sole B40-8W and 60M were shootable. 7/28/17
Margolies, John,, photographer.
Paramount Cafe sign, ("This Is It"), Cole Avenue (Route 66), Gallup, New Mexico
2003.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Notes:
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Margolies categories: Eating and drinking establishment signs.
Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-3).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Subjects:
Restaurants--2000-2010.
Signs (Notices)--2000-2010.
United States--New Mexico--Gallup.
Format: Slides--2000-2010.--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01566
Call Number: LC-MA05- 1566
2nd August 1993. Scanned from a print.
ATSF No. 121 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) EMD GP60M at Gallup, New Mexico.
Also in line is EMD SD40-2 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) No. 5065
For my video; youtu.be/J04CW7ELCJU,
Outside The Indian House Trading Company,
Gallup, New Mexico, United States
Dash9-44CW No. 985 in smart Heritage 1 livery heading a westbound double stack on 13 September 1999 as a huge thunderstorm was brewing up.
A few shots taken in my classroom today...and before I headed back to the rez to take care of cattle.
Friday 17 November 2023: the 5:55pm Amtrak “Southwest Chief” from Los Angeles Union to Chicago Union at Gallup NM. I took this train as far as Albuquerque NM