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An arch between parking lot and Open Space, Albuquerque. Photos by Holly Dodd. Art credited below.

Joshua Robert Willis made it for the City of Albuquerque in 2017 or earlier. It's called "Archbarrow."

Here are more images of this and its relatives, and the concept art, on Joshua R. Willis's blog: Archbarrow/Barrowhenge. (Use "next" or "view thumbnails" when you get there.)

Fireworks launching pad

New Mexico, July 2025

Muninn Raymundsbairn took the photo and let me keep it so you could see it!

Twenty Flowers

Laurie McPherson, in Corrales, New Mexico, sent this in 2020, but somehow I failed to save it here where it belongs.

It's impressive when a fullsized wheelbarrow can only hold about 20 flowers!

Awkward...

ONE part is left, of this wheelbarrow, and it's still being used. 😊

My daughter (that's her in the photos) works on a farm (farm education program) and the tray of this old wheelbarrow had been filled with compost. All its other parts are gone, so it needed a hauler. 😊

I think it's very sweet that it's still in use.

Wall repair near my house

The wind blew a fence that was fastened to a cinderblock wall.

Wall repairmen have a wheelbarrow.

Adobe construction

October 2015, Corrales, New Mexico. Wheelbarrow of the builders of the new casita at the McPhersons'.

The oldest wheelbarrow in Corrales

In October 2015, I took these photos of an ancient wheelbarrow behind the McPhersons' house in Corrales, New Mexico. That used to be the front of the house but properties change and time passes.

It's not there anymore, I don't think, so I'm glad I found the misplaced photos.

Green chile in New Mexico

Green chile harvest time in New Mexico!

Photos were forwarded by Laurie McPherson. The wheelbarrow photo is by Liddie Martinez, of Española.

The second is from the facebook page of http://www.loschileros.com/

Yard cleaning during pandemic

People are asked to stay home more, and some yardwork is being done!

In Corrales, New Mexico, Laurie McPherson has tulips up, and weeds out!

"Norteño fire pit"

Rick Vigil posted this in a facebook group called "Everything New Mexico: Photos, memories, canciones, recipes, art, y mas." My sister, Irene, sent it to me.

It's part of a retired wheelbarrow, set on corrugated steel, and the bolts suggest that there might be a grill down in there.

I love that it's green, and that the photographer's foot shows. I'm not sure whether Rick Vigil is the photographer. The original post is here.

Farm tools

Two wheelbarrows at the farm where my daughter, Holly/Bitsy works, west of the Rio Grande, near Sunset and Central, in Albuquerque. One was by the shed and the other in the truck, when I visited.

Same wheelbarrow twice

In 1987, David Roybal took this photo of Lucia and Ricardo Medina in their yard at Llano de San Juan at the feet of the Rockies southeast of Taos. I saw the image and wrote to ask if I could use it here. David let me know that it was one of his favorites, of the photos he took in those days as a newspaper journalist, and added, "My wife, Marlene, likes it, too. So much so that she painted the image," and gave me permission to use both!

I've shared photos, and paintings, but this is the first time both appear together.




Marlene cheered them up, made their truck a beautiful green, and gave us a better view of the wheelbarrow!



David and I went to the same high school. He was a year older, and became a journalist.

The photo above appears in David's fifth book, published this year, called New Mexico Stories: Truths, Tales and Mysteries from Along the Río Grande

Muddy wheelbarrow in very clean truck

Here's some Albuquerque contrast for today. The truck is maximally clean. The wheelbarrow, not.

The truck and wheelbarrow are the same colors as the sky and trees!



Laurie McPherson spotted and sent this.

German detainees in Fort Stanton, New Mexico

"SS Columbus sailors garden-Ft. Stanton, N.M."




In the second photo, they're working on a swimming pool, for their own use. Wheelbarrow show in the rear to the right. The photo is wider, but I only found it cut across two pages of a magazine article here: German Sailors on the High Desert



Same wheelbarrows, probably; different projects. Early 1940s.

Almost all metal

Cedar Crest, New Mexico
Photo by Holly Dodd

John Deere, maybe 100 years old

My nephew, Paul Mountain Faith Trujillo, sent this, from a Buy/Sell/Trade listing in Albuquerque:

Vintage John Deere wheelbarrow unlike no other. Asking only $60. I am assuming it is more than 100 years old or older and is in great condition for the age. Any reasonable offers will be considered. I Have done many internet searches and have looked at many different antique websites but have not found this specific wheelbarrow. The only one I found like it, someone painted it and to me as a collector, I believe they took the value away from it. I believe that this is a historic artifact and should be in a museum. $60 but any reasonable offer will be considered and i can also deliver. Again this is a vintage John Deere wheelbarrow estimated to be over 100 years old or possibly older. Thanks for looking at my post and happy shopping!!!

I appreciate the nicely done blurb and photos by the seller, Phillip Michael, who already has buyers and maybe should have said "highest bidder."

Hahn Arroyo tile, Albuquerque

In Albuquerque, there is tax-funded public art. We knew someone working on tile art—involving kids, teens, people in nursing homes—in a project that would be installed along the drainage of Hahn Arroyo in the Northeast Heights.

Details of the murals were created in pieces, and set together, then filled in between, cemented over with a method created by a company in El Paso (contracted to do the final pass), and that's their wheelbarrow. They take off the top layer of the cement after several hours, and polish up the tile.

At the time of that work, when I described it, I said that Will was paid to put water between fish. His job was much more wonderful, but he did do the arrangement and fill-in of the fish, bugs, and other creatures that had been created in mosaic with his help by people in the community.

This is from early morning, October 11, 2011.

Our wheelbarrow, our back yard

My back gates (one remote controlled for cars, and a wooden one for foot traffic), and the wheelbarrow, standing, viewed from behind an old Dodge pickup we don't have anymore. It had holes in the sides of the bed for 2x2 or steel pipe, so people could put a cattle rack, or staves (as there is one, there, to the left). And the broom is stuck in one of those holes right behind the cab. There was usually a pitchfork in the other behind-cab hole. It made the truck intimidating.

But here, it's being a frame for a (candid) wheelbarrow portrait.



The front of the house is 2905 Tahiti Ct. in Albuquerque, but the back gate looks out toward Juan Tabo (across a parking lot between Fastino's and Discount Tire).

New Mexico, candid

Sylvia Toyama, from her friend's farm in Albuquerque's South Valley.

Seems like a bad plan

Kat Gray wrote, "Saw this and had to take a picture for you!" The photo was taken in the South Valley, Albuquerque, New Mexico.



Maybe it's not as dangerous as it looks.