Just have to share this Uncle Sam from the small town of Hatch, New Mexico. The town is best known as the green chile capital of the world. And what’s that in Uncle Sam’s hand??
Uncle Sam in Hatch, NM, Chile capital of the world
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Tags: BlogSherpa, Hatch, New Mexico, photography, Southwest, Uncle Sam, USA
Cool picture! I love Americana like this
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Probably one of the tallest Uncle Sam I’ve ever seen!
Those clouds are just beautiful.
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Thanks, InsideJourneys. Sorry your post got caught in the spam filter and it took me a few days to find it. Southern Arizona and southern New Mexico are almost always good for beautiful cloud pictures this time of year!
I love finding fun little towns like Hatch. New Mexico has quite a few of them, I think. One of my faves is Pietown.
Pietown? Don’t think I’ve seen it. Is it a real town or a ghost town?
Great sculpture!
I was in Oregon recently and purchased a book called, “Only in Oregon: Natural and Manmade Landmarks and Oddities.” Sounds like a book you need to add to your collection.
Honestly, there’s a whole industry of Oddity Books and Weird Books and Roadside Sights books out there. It is amazing.
They do great green chili in New Mexico, don’t they? A colleague used to bring us some to work whenever they traveled there. Love that Uncle Sam’s holding one in his hand
And I really like that you can see all the other statues in the background.
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Ah, yes, but you can’t actually see ALL of the statues, for that you have to follow the link to my facebook profile. And even then, I missed the pig on the edge of town and the robot at Sparky’s. Your Walking on water picture was awesome, by the way.
Thanks
How many statues are there? Too cool! Couldn’t see the pic on Facebook. I think your settings are private. Or maybe I’m just not smart enough to find it. Quite possible 
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Wow, Uncle Sam sure is big! Hilarious that he’s holding a green chile too.
Cheryl: He’s right next to a Paul Bunyan figure holding a teeny-tiny (by comparison) house trailer. The whole street is pretty hilarious. You can see more on my Facebook profile page, which I linked in the comment to Sophie.
I like those huge roadside sculptures. Haven’t seen that many in the USA (but then it’s been a while since I’ve been). They’re all over Australia and have names like the Big Banana or the Big diplodocus… Fun!
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Sophie: I’ve seen a blog devoted to strange things seen along the road. U.S. has plenty of them. A friend of mine has written a book about Arizona Oddities and is working on one on New Mexico. The Paul Bunyan figures are particularly prevalent and are seen painted in many different ways all over the world. You can see the Hatch one at my Facebook profile page, where I posted a whole album of the roadside statues in Hatch.
Beautiful colors
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as said above, funny photo
and great subject for a fantastic photo opportunity.
Thanks, Denise. And next time you drop by, use Comment Luv to link to your blog. You have such wonderful photos and info on Switzerland.
Funny photo! Welcome to Travel Photo Thursday.
Thanks for sponsoring the Travel Photo Thursday, Nancie and I’m enjoying meeting new-to-me blogs through this effort. Your sunset picture is stunning, and I hope all my readers will click over to Budget Travelers Sandbox and take a look.