That’s what it looks like in northern Taos County, with southern Colorado about ten minutes away. Take extra care up here. It’s baseball-bat-to-the-head bizarre. There’s an alligator farm just up the road. The gators live in pools fed by geothermally heated artesian wells. Free hot water! What else would you do with it, right? The [...]
Rio Grande del Norte National Monument
At the bottom of an eight hundred foot deep canyon!
The image is from nine days ago. I thought I’d post it before actual winter shows up and all hell breaks loose. That’s all, just the Rio Grande. (“Just” the Rio Grande, sure.) Enjoy and have a pleasant Sunday afternoon!
Canyon walls, not mountains. Aieeee!
This spot beside the Rio Grande is twenty minutes and a thousand feet lower down the road from where we live. Twenty minutes, that’s all it takes, and what a different world. [You’re looking downstream here.] The water yesterday was clearer than I’ve ever seen it. With the right angle on the sunlight, there was [...]
Downstream is left!
You’re looking at Canada geese and what may be a pair of goldeneyes moving upstream in the background. It’s such a kick to see these here. What you can’t see is how high the cliffs are above this scene. Think eight hundred feet plus and you’ll be close. The gorge is even deeper farther north; [...]
Looking north from La Junta Overlook
All right, this is serious. The Upper Gorge, formerly known as Wild Rivers Area, now part of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. Haven’t been up here for years. This is where we came in ’98 before we moved, when I looked out at pure landscape (not this view) and started to cry. It [...]
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