Articles for the ‘La Vida’ Category

Stencil art

Ungelbah Daniel-Davila News-Bulletin photo: Belen stencil artist Kevin Harding explains how layers of up to seven stencils are used to create the details in a painting. This picture of two women in Day of the Dead makeup came from a photograph he found on Facebook and asked to use.

The sound of rattle, rattle, hiss, rattle, rattle, hiss is a common tune at Belen stencil artist Kevin Harding's garage studio.

Rescued Raptors

Deborah Fox-News-Bulletin photo: Tuuli Haukka, meaning ‘wind hawk,’ was named by a friend from Finland of Peralta raptor specialist Laura McCann’s. The injured red tailed hawk was found near Interstate 25 in Valencia County. He is at least 5 years old, but could be older.

The majestic birds of our blue skies can't always escape our modern conveniences. Sometimes, these large birds end up the worse for their encounter with our contemporary world.

Enchanted Images

‘Honey Bee Meets Butterfly,’ in Los Lunas, by Barbara C. Arnold.

Talented shutterbugs have entered their prized photographs in a contest hosted by the Belen Art League.

Helping Haiti

Submitted photo: Sources of fresh water in the Haitian countryside are few and far between, forcing people to walk miles and bring back only what water they can carry.

Tragedy unfolds on the evening news every day. Natural disasters ravage countries, uprooting the populations and throwing resources into chaos. When the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and tens of thousands killed.

Potter’s pupil

Julia M. Dendinger-News-Bulletin photo: Potter Jeri Schmetterer has been learning to work clay on the wheel for nearly a year. She is a student at the Tomé Art Gallery.

When a lot of people chose art as a career path, it's usually after they have established themselves in what is usually referred to as "real life."

Costanza Apple Orchard

Deborah Fox-News-Bulletin photo: Margaret Costanza manages Costanza Apple Orchard in Belen, which was started by her mother and father in 1962. She and her five siblings learned the orchard business while growing up.

Experiencing an apple orchard at harvest time is awesome. The rows of trees are laden with blushing red, bright peach colored and golden apples bunched on branches like roses on a vine.