In early April of this year we spent a week in the Gila National Forest, camping at the Gila Hot Springs and visiting the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. It was very nice and we had a great time. However, the next week we drove into Las Cruces and ended up making an offer on a house - which we should close on this week and move into over the next couple of weeks.

Because buying a house turns out to be distracting, we never got around to posting any pictures from the Gila part of our trip. Today we seem to have caught up to ourselves, and so a quick post of a beautiful camping trip almost 2 months ago..


To begin, some flowers from along the way

Various scenes from the Gila River and the Gila National Forest

 Elk

 A Vulture and the sliver of the new moon at sunset.

 Mike walking below the cliff dwellings.

Snow falling in the valley just east of Gila Hot Springs

The Cliff Dwellings

The white spots in this photo are of snow fluries

And some Birds

A Robin

 A White-Breasted Nuthatch

 One that is not in the books

 A Mexican Black Hawk

 And a female Broad-Tailed Hummingbird