Photo of the Month

     On this page we highlight a new photograph each month with  information about the story that led to the photograph.

    New Mexico has the only remaining working railroad semaphores in the United States. Here Amtrak's Southwest Chief “splits” two of them in northern New Mexico. Check out our tours for two upcoming photo tours that will take you to them. We'll also take you from Albuquerque to Las Vegas and to Winslow. And look at the Western Rails section of this website.
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  Walking in Beauty: The Closing Prayer from the Navajo Blessing Way Ceremony

In beauty I walk
With beauty before me I walk
With beauty behind me I walk
With beauty above me I walk
With beauty around me I walk
It has become beauty again.

Today I will walk out, today everything negative will leave me
I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body.
I will have a light body, I will be happy forever, nothing will hinder me.
I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me.
I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty above me.
I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful.
In beauty all day long may I walk.

Through the returning seasons, may I walk.
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
With dew about my feet, may I walk.
With beauty before me may I walk.
With beauty behind me may I walk.
With beauty below me may I walk.
With beauty above me may I walk.
With beauty all around me may I walk.

In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.
My words will be beautiful…
It is finished in Beauty.
It is finished in Beauty.
Aho.


 If you would like to listen to the prayer in Navajo,here is a link.The prayer starts 1 minute 22 seconds into the recording.