In June
The Flying Carpet
sweltered in Albuquerque

a city  with aproximately 1,800 murals within the city limits!

Anybody can put up a mural anywhere
if the owner gives permission.

Varied… surreal… exuberant…

Special thanks to Maggie

May Flying Carpet 2026

 In May
The Flying Carpet
invites
you to share
a parallel existence-
The world of dreams

Two ways of living life
zigzag

or

meander

Blink of the eye photo
wedding through window

That's your new name
That's your new path

Oroboros

Answer the meteor shower
of the mind

Hand holding beating heart

Eating cloud pudding
with a spoon

Walking the Lollapalooza Trail
blind

I was asked to translate
an unknown language

The heartbeat of
The World

Special thanks to all the Dreamers

April Flying Carpet 2026

 In April 

The Flying Carpet 

accompanied Victoria 

on a 

Land of Dreams Adventure

we
Crashed in ROSWELL, NM

Where she was SMITTEN by a
tall green handsome alien

and took off for Outer Space 

I pleaded with her
to BE IN TOUCH

to no avail…
GONE!

but finally she RETURNED

Then we
admired Nancy Fleming
getting all her ducks in a row
at the 

Miniatures
and Curious Collections 

Museum

Then we
Spelunked in
CARLSBAD CAVERNS, NM
where time
turns rock into lace

Then we
ambled into
the CLOUDCROFT, NM
Western Bar
and beheld
more than
a fistful of DOLLARS

Then we
walked the empty streets
of CARRIZOZO, NM

trying to imagine
International World Art Day there
in a town where
cowboys
on brick pinto PONIES
gallop into blooming yuccas

Then we headed home.

Special thanks to VICTORIA
for returning from Outer Space

 In March

The Flying Carpet

Marched in PROTEST

along with 8 million others

Here are the faces

of PROTEST 

Santa Fe Style

 In February

The Flying Carpet

Encourages you to 

"Make Love Not War"

Make Valentines!

The weirder
the better

Gather them

Share them

Weave hearts together

Remember

Receive with full heart

Appreciation of friends

"An eye for an eye

makes the whole world blind"

Ghandi

JanuaryFlying Carpet 2026

In January

in the midst of chaos

The Flying Carpet

encourages you to stay centered*

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*Special thanks to Carol Eastes for this theme

1 Muse photo/collage Gail Rieke

2 Telephone Wire Basket

3 Magic Circle Vision painting Zachariah Rieke

4 "Old School" Valentine collage Gail Rieke (special thanks to Chrysa Wikstrom)

5 Japan Travel Journal envelopes Gail Rieke

6 Montserrat in Lisbon, Portugal

7 The Way painting Zachariah Rieke

8 Manhole cover Himeji, Japan

9 Ceramic teabowls and matcha

"Tea stops the world"