As promised, a photo of the New Mexico float in the Rose Bowl Parade, winner of the "Grand Marshal's Trophy for excellence in creative concept and design". w00t!
Here she is, the 'Passport to Our World and Beyond':
Raised most of my life in New Mexico, I moved to Northern California in 1997. My friends don't call me a Californian, they say I'm a New Mexican living in California. I think that's true. For about two years after moving, I distanced myself from my home state thinking it backward and remote. Then I began to visit home more frequently and truly learned to love my home state only by gaining perspective. I'm a writer, a painter, a photographer and labor at a "real job" during the days.