These photos are from the "Get the Picture" contest - recreating a modern day version of the picture taken somewhere, sometime in New Mexico.
These photos are from the "Get the Picture" contest - recreating a modern day version of the picture taken somewhere, sometime in New Mexico.
| Statehood: January 6, 1912 New Mexico is the 47th state in the Union signed by President William Taft | ||
| Highest Point: Wheeler Peak, 1,3161ft. | Lowest Point: Red Bluff Reservoir, southeast of Carlsbad, 2,842 ft. | |
| State Question: "Red or Green?" | State Motto: Crecit Eundo: "It Grows as it Goes" | |
| State Fossil: Coelophysis ("see-la-fisis") | State Gem: Turquoise | State Flower: Yucca |
| State Insect: Tarantula Hawk Wasp | State Bird: Roadrunner | State Tree: Piñon |
| State Fish: Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout | State Animal: Black Bear | State Tie: Bolo Tie |
They've lived through the depression and hot and cold wars and the cold war, …