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Sunday, March 6, 2011 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

White-crowned Sparrow, Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM, March 5, 2011
White-crowned Sparrow, Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM, March 5, 2011

Uh-oh, why is that ice loose in the freezer?

Preliminary investigation failed to turn up any obvious reason, like no power to the fridge. Oh darn, we may be in for another lap in the barrel...

Night camp

Site 10 - 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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