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Friday, December 23, 2011 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM

Showoff... Northern Pintail, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 8, 2011
Showoff... Northern Pintail, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 8, 2011

Gotta get back up there with the birds

As you can probably tell I've been sorting pictures the last week or two and posting the odd finds here. It's got me wishing I were up at the Bosque with the birds. This winter has been a wet one but until that breaks I'm staying put.

Night camp

Site 8 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM

Hobnobbing with Brigham Young

The day following my arrival in the flourishing City of the Saints, as they called it then and still call it, I very unexpectedly met and formed the acquaintance of Brigham Young. I was riding along at the head of my flock of sheep when a stoutly built, florid faced genteel-looking man, whose hair was just turning gray, walked down to the street from one of the most pretentious residences in the place and inquired whose sheep I had charge of.

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