Happy New Year to all Wallmart campers!

even in the parking lot

the moon gets up

not quite the way

you say

as when it stands above

a sunlit mountain

do you think

the moon will care

another year

or where

i wish you all

a happy one to come

that your moon may rise

and the sun shines

on your lot

Wallmart parking lot in Las Cruces

Rock Hound State park, Deming

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Friday Flash 55.....

Albuquerque

looking over the Rio Grande at the San Diaz

living along the Rio Grande

looking down from the San Diaz
(here high in the mountain it snowed last night)

Hmmm i have to tell a little more, actually i am painting right now, 'floating in white sand'.

Michael took me up the San Diaz, Jason took me around town. And to get from one to the other, i had to drive after sunset, this is a Big City! i don't know how i managed with all these interstates , but hey i did, i can find my way in the bush, this only just a tat wilder.

Jason lives close to the Rio Grande, and i walked down to the river, a gardener let me through a private garden, which lines the river. And there on the river i saw my first Roadrunner, and what are all those birds flying over, they are sandhill cranes! That i imagined left from the Yukon before me. (Later in Bosque El Apache i learn different) and i see Pink Pelicans.(Many more later at Elephant Butte) and a little Quail.

Who can not love a big city with treasure like that.

As Jason drives me around, the city is quite varied, towns within a city, roads weaving everything together, no high rise, mostly adobe architecture.

And the food is good too!

White Sands, New Mexico

White Sands, New Mexico: "White Sands, a National Park in New Mexico, has enormous sand dunes of the mineral gypsum, and it was a vision quest site of the Native Indians."

I knew i would love the White Sands and i did. The sight is incredible.
I hiked them, rolled down the dunes, tasted them, put on my dress to celebrate them, studied them and everyday i still touch the sand as it is in my coat pocket.
And i slept on them under the stars, no one in sight for many many miles, just maybe three campers, half a kilometre apart, crawled up in a sleeping bag.

all alone in this perfect spot, which felt like home

still at the white mesa

This is going too slow, now, this posting of my trip
Not then. I loved it how we went slow, staying were we liked it, sometimes moving only 20 miles.
Hey, i could live like that there in New Mexico.
Being a nomad.
Being a dreamer.
one moment of many in the morning

one moment of ancient times

one moment in the evening.

And as my camera didn't work when we were at the White Sands ages later, i post a link and tell that story in the next post, because from now on, i tell only the ultimate high lights.

Ahh.... then i should talk about yesterday too, which was a sort of historic day for me, but somethings...... just don't reach the keyboard...not here, not yet.

Do you often have that feeling, that there is so much , all day could be show and tell...

what?

hmmmm, I went all the way to the blue china pond today, on snowshoes.
Alexander will be home here shortly, he is home for the holidays, but out most of the time. Today he was snowboarding, it was cold on the hill he said
And Don he went out on the skidoo, icicles hanging from his skidoo mask, it's cold out there he said.
I say, what! i'm just starting to warm up to it...

Goodmorning here!

christmas day morning.

sunny for all the daylight hours!

sunshine inside and outside my heart.

(today boxing day, we'll see, it's still dark, there is a fainter moon and still very cold)

Goodmorning there!

Nov 5 2010, waking up in the Jemez Springs campground. Most often we didn't camp on campgrounds, but i liked this one a lot, right by the river. And for the traveller on a budget, the right price. With a golden eagle pass (or something:) i think we paid 4 bucks. For the discount it has to be a Federal Park. Normally it was 10 dollars for tenting.
Nights and mornings are cool, so i kept a fire going with driftwood.

Talking to the camp host (i love your campgrounds America! hosts included) about hotsprings, he told us about the San Antonio one. When you were a boy scout ever, you might have spend a summer camp there. But now it is open for the public. So off we go.
What did a store keeper, closer to the road that leads to the Springs say? "You might make it, there's no telling, some do and some don't....
Anyway i am driving :) and a drive it is, a real test for me and the car. I take things very slowly, and only a few times i come precariously close to the edge, a few puddles, who knows how deep or soft, only a steep section in the beginning, and many many big boulders.
We make it!


When you enlarge this photo, you'll see some sweethearts. They walked the 5 miles (two hour)
And by the looks of it, he asked her to marry him while in their private pool (nobody dared to disturb them, just smiles).

I found the highest pool to my favor, being the hottest.