Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
Onions, Arrey NM, April 26, 2008
Percha Dam State Park in Arrey NM is about 60 miles north of Las Cruces NM.
Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal
- Go to the Percha Dam State Park website
- Locate Percha Dam State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather in Arrey NM
Nights I've camped here
- Saturday, January 15, 2011 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- Back on January 9th I started a project to update the bones of this website. There were lots of things bugging me, the big one being poor navigation. Stuff accumulates and there are now about 1,500 pages here on lots of unrelated topics. It's a mess. Image: Rio Grande River, Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM, March 26, 2009.
- Friday, January 14, 2011 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- More onions please. Eleven months have passed and we see the same onion field, shot from a different perspective. We ate last years crop; we need more onions. We have burgers to top. Image: Onions along the Canal, Arrey NM, March 26, 2009.
- Thursday, January 13, 2011 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- No Percha Dam, no onions. No pecans. No cotton. No chili. No whatever. Not in the Rincon Valley. A little about Percha Dam swiped from the US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Reclamation, Cultural Resources Program website... Image: Rincon Valley Main Canal, Percha Dam, Arrey NM, April 26, 2008.
- Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- It's deja vu all over again. Looking for a picture to put up today I discovered I spent a couple of days here at Percha Dam State Park on my way up the Rio Grande valley to the Bosque National Wildlife Refuge a year ago to the day. I knew it was about this time in January when I passed through but didn't realize the timing was spot on. Ha! - so what? Image: The Hand of Man, Percha Dam, Rio Grande River, Arrey NM, January 12, 2010.
- Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- Now that it's here I'm torn. This day has been in the wind a long long time; now it's here. Verizon announced today they will be selling iPhones beginning February 10th. I've been hanging on to my old LG cell phone for years in anticipation of this day. Now that it's here I'm torn. Trading in my old phone for an iPhone instantly makes my constant companion, my dedicated iPod Touch, redundant. That's ok. The thing is, though, the great leather case I lavished a week developing and making won't fit the new iPhones. So that becomes instantly redundant as well. Arrgh..... Image: Leather Case, iPod Touch, February 15, 2009.
- Friday, January 15, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM
- Yesterday my friends Kate & Terry invited me along for a sunset photo shoot of the Sandhill Cranes gathering to roost in the shallow ponds along the highway at the north end of the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. I've seen the cranes flying between their roosting and feeding grounds down at Percha Dam State Park and at Pancho Villa State Park and I've seen them feeding with the cows here and there but this was my first experience of them roosting. Image: Gathering at the roost, Sandhill Cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 14, 2010.
- Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- Image: Suppertime, Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM, January 12, 2010.
- Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- Headed north today - to Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM. Image: Conserve Water, Pancho Villa State Park, Columbus NM, January 10, 2010.
- Sunday, March 29, 2009 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- Image: Water Over the Dam, Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM, March 27, 2009.
- Saturday, March 28, 2009 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- Image: Onions, Near Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM, March 26, 2009.
- Friday, March 27, 2009 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- Image: Spring on the Rio Grande, Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM, March 26, 2009.
- Thursday, March 26, 2009 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- Image: Reflected, Near Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM, April 26, 2008.
- Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- Yesterday I had my first encounter with a tarantula hawk. Image: Tarantula hawk, Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM, March 24, 2009.
- Saturday, April 26, 2008 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM
- I'm camped at Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM, for a few days. Image: Watering the garden, Arrey NM, April 26, 2008.
Sweet, Rich Hickory Milk
Hickory was another favorite. Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time. "They pound them to pieces, and then cast them into boiling water, which, after passing through fine strainers, preserves the most oily part of the liquid" to make a thick milk, "as sweet as fresh cream, an ingredient in most of their cookery, especially hominy and corncakes." Years ago a friend and I were served hickory milk in rural Georgia by an eccentric backwoods artist named St. EOM who claimed Creek descent. Despite the unsanitary presentation, the milk was ambrosial - fragrantly nutty, delightfully heavy on the tongue, unlike anything I had encountered before.