Scenes from family Christmas in Las Cruces. My mom's family is Japanese but my grandparents in Las Cruces were farmers and the southwest influence was (and still is) a way of life, hence tamales and beans on Christmas Eve. Other photos, the luminarias in
Oftentimes, it takes us buckets of tears, sweat and (literally) blood before we achieve what we want in life. But so long as it means waking up the next day to a morning as majestic and picturesque as this, I would not mind fighting till I shed the last b