After a week of intensive house projects (house painting, weeding, building a new deck) we decided go camping on Friday afternoon. We drove up to the Wild Rivers recreation area in the Taos Gorge. On the way up we stopped for lunch at the Taoseno Diner for carne adovada, tacos and sopapillas. Jake had done trail construction at Wild Rivers for a couple weeks many years ago, but the grounds are more developed now than they were then. There are several camping areas and each site has a sheltered picnic table on a cement slab and a fire ring. We selected a site among three at the Big Arsenic campground. All the sites overlook the gorge and are surrounded by wind-twisted cedars and pinyons. After setting our tent up and throwing heavy items into it to keep it from blowing away, we went to the La Junta trail where Jake had worked before. This trail leads down the side of a steep hill (see photo taken from bottom) to a peninsula between the Red River and the Rio Grande. There weren't many wildflowers in bloom yet, but I did see clumps of Townsendia exscapa, the Townsend aster, and pasqueflower (see photos). Leaves were just coming out on roses and willows.
The trip reminded us that New Mexico is every bit as stunning as Argentina!
And on the way home Saturday morning we stopped at Michael's for a breakfast burrito and breakfast enchiladas!
2 comments:
The upright flower looks something like cat's ear, but maybe that's my Oregon bias.
Cat's ear apparently only grows in OR and northern CA. From a top view they look different but you can't see that in this view.
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