Familiar things

The light on the mountains and tree tops of the valley, walking the loop yesterday evening.

From the front porch, the first morning home (April 13, 2010).

Familar things.

Minding my own business

1 Thessalonians 4:11

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands.

The work project begun a year ago is approaching a crucial deadline. Taxes – yikes! A family visit next week and then a run for home.

It is a good time for a blogging break so I’m taking one. For April…I will be minding my own business :)!

**Photo and re-use of the verse from October 7, 2008 post Ambition

Taos in the morning

From Taos Valley RV Park and Campground…

While Taos is still high desert at about 7100 feet in elevation, the vegetation is mostly sage and juniper versus the cactus, mesquite and juniper of the southern high desert. And the mountains are part of larger ranges with foothills and rolling terrain on the approach in contrast to the southern small ranges that jutted out of the desert floor.

The sage can have a yellow flower which looks golden in the right light. The combination of sage and juniper makes for a wonderful, soft fragrance as well.

Taos in the morning.

Bosque Birdwatcher’s RV Park: San Antonio, NM

San Antonio, New Mexico is a small town, located just off I-25, south of Socorro by 10 miles, Albuquerque by 80 miles. It is home to Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge

Bosque del Apache is Spanish for “woods of the Apache,” and is rooted in the time when the Spanish observed Apaches routinely camped in the riverside forest. Since then the name has come to mean one of the most spectacular National Wildlife Refuges in North America. Here, tens of thousands of birds–including sandhill cranes, Arctic geese, and many kinds of ducks–gather each autumn and stay through the winter. Feeding snow geese erupt in explosions of wings when frightened by a stalking coyote, and at dusk, flight after flight of geese and cranes return to roost in the marshes.

In the summer Bosque del Apache lives its quiet, green life as an oasis in the arid lands that surround it. From the Bosque del Apache Wildlife website

From the main intersection in town, a small sign pointed the way to Bosque Birdwatcher’s RV Park, 3 miles south. The spot appeared to be a farm turned into RV spot with maybe 30 spaces that bordered the wildlife refuge.

This morning I saw what I think are Sandhill Cranes that live in the refuge.

Beautiful in the morning’s pink alpenglow.

Sunrise to the east was worth watching as well.