A woman photographs a rainbow with her phone in the parking lot of Smith’s on Fourth Street in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, July 2, 2924.
Braddock Preston of All-Pro Plumbing, Heating and Sewage on Wednesday sets up gas-fired griddles for cooking thousands of pancakes. He and others were getting ready for Pancakes on the Plaza, the annual Santa Fe Fourth of July celebration. The event, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Santa Fe, starts at 7 a.m. and continues through lunch. This year, tickets are $12 each, or four for $40. The money raised goes to support the Santa Fe Children’s Museum and Youth Works.
David Marler, executive director of the National UFO Historical Records Center, looks at a Detroit News about “ghost disks” reported over the city.
Thomas Renfro looks through some of the soccer pamphlets he has saved from his love of the game and his travels around the world on June 27. The timeline in the foreground was used to write a book on the history of soccer in New Mexico. He has collected a whale bone, at left, and lots of soccer memorabilia in his apartment in Albuquerque.
Emily Hunter, a physician assistant, stands by in an operating room on June 26 as a da Vinci robot, controlled by Dr. Erica McBride, performs a hernia operation on a patient at Lovelace Hospital in Albuquerque.
Pools of water linger on Sunday after late night flash flooding near the Pueblo Indian Cultural Center on Sunday, June 30.
Journalist and businessman Sam Donaldson speaks at WESST (Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency Team) headquarters on June 26 in Albuquerque.