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Sunday, April 22, 2012 - Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM

Late Day Cliffside, Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM, April 22, 2012
Late Day Cliffside, Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM, April 22, 2012

Do I see what I think I see?

Yes I do. That's a Great Horned Owl up there on the cliff across the river, waiting for the sun to set. And to his left is his mate on the nest deep in a hole in the cliff. A fellow camper, Winnie, told me I might find a nesting pair up there. She had seen them up there last year.

Sure wish I could get closer but there's a river in the way.

Night camp

Riverside - Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM

Sell Them Down the River

Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...

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