small beauties (& big rocks)
[ A view up maybe twenty feet of a rocky slope, with evergreen trees at the top. ] Just a little bit of a hill, but such treasures at the top!
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small beauties
small beauties: that VIEW
[ In the foreground, a couple of pine trees & about twenty feet of rock-covered ground. Beyond that, the view opens up, looking down onto dense forest with blue sky above. ] It was SUCH a gorgeous spot. I wish the road to get there weren’t so rough — Tom had Opinions about it, &
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small beauties, Venus Park edition
[ Bright yellow many-petalled flowers on tall green stalks ] Venus Park, if you take a quick look at it from the road, is a large, rectangular area of green grass that’s obvious watered on the regular, surrounded by brown, scrubby land that’s pretty typical of New Mexico. Take a closer look with me.
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small beauties, vertebra edition
[ A dense patch of relatively young Ponderosa pines, most with trunks less than six inches wide; the ground is deeply covered in pine needles. ] I found a nice thick patch of woods last Tuesday. Sometimes you want an open meadow; sometimes you just want trees.
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planty bits
Couple days ago I took the boys off into the woods for the day, which was a Very Excellent Decision & which I need to do more often. I gathered SEVERAL ounces of piñon resin & a random bone, & when I came back to the pile later, a tree had added half a pinecone.
asploring: nature’s beauty
… or spikiness, as the case may be. But even the spiky can be beautiful. I knew this flower as Indian Paintbrush but it occurred to me that 1) probably the name is kind of racist & 2) probably the people who lived here first have another name for it so I went looking. The
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asploring: treasure
We brought home LOTS of treasure. LOOK at all this piñon resin. It’s more than five ounces, & that long piece in the back is an ounce & a half all on its own. I found a cool carved-stone pipe that I kinda love. The horse skull is what I went out to fetch —
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