Bridging the sky: A construction worker with A.S. Horner Construction, out of Albuquerque, walks along a support beam as a sundog forms behind him on the Munoz overpass bridge in Gallup on Friday. A sundog, also known as a parhelion, is the result of an atmospheric optical phenomenon caused by the refraction of light by small ice crystals in air. [Photo by Brian Leddy/Independent]

Colburn interviews Thompson, while Videographer Tom McCarthy gets a new tape ready. [Photo by Matt Hinshaw/Independent] Related Story

Dinner Search: A rock squirrel clings onto a tree Tuesday and searches the area for food in a wash that runs along Second Street near downtown. Rock squirrels can climb nearly as well as tree squirrels. Rock squirrels are omnivorous; they eat seeds, insects, flowers, fruits, sometimes small birds and eggs. [Photo by Matt Hinshaw/Independent]