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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

 Departing Storm Clouds, San Antonio NM, January 20, 2010
Departing Storm Clouds, San Antonio NM, January 20, 2010

Last night's storm front moved on and today I signed up for another three weeks here at the Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM. I like it here, the birds are endlessly entertaining, the price is not hugely more than the New Mexico Parks, and my stay will extend beyond the next NM Parks furlough closure February 8th and 9th. Kills many birds this on stone does.

Night camp

Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

They do not Intrude on Each Other

The San Francisco Mountain lies in northern Arizona, above Flagstaff, and its blue slopes and snowy summit entice the eye for a hundred miles across the desert. About its base lie the pine forests of the Navajos, where the great red-trunked trees live out their peaceful centuries in that sparkling air. The pinons and scrub begin only where the forest ends, where the country breaks into open, stony clearings and the surface of the earth cracks into deep canyons. The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude on each other. ...

The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, p265, Houghton Mifflin Co paperback edition 1987

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