Yesterday morning we were at the White Sands National Park for sunrise. It was great fun and  quite lovely. Hope you like the photos too.


Some sort of wildlife in the sand

Sunrise on Mike in the desert

 Dennis walking around in the sand

Various desert plants

 Ravens in the sand

Views of White Sands and the San Andres Mountains

The Organ Mountains National Monument - viewed from the east, as we were driving back to Las Cruces from White Sands. 

Two weeks ago, the forecast temperatures for Las Cruces were around 108 for the coming week. So we ran back up into the mountains where the forecast was for highs around 85. We had a very nice week, in a campground that we had never visited before, and returned to temperatures that were more tolerable at home.

It looks like our summer is going to be made up of short visits to the mountains every other week or so. Not too bad, really, for a Quarantine.




Our Campsite

 Cooking

 Flowers with butterflies and bugs

 Steller's Jay

 Squirrel

White Sands National Park from Cloudcroft

 Reading

 More flowers and bugs

 Hiking in the woods

 Two Dark-Eyed Juncos courting

 Peek-a-boo Squirrel

 Steller's Jays courting

 Steller's Jay flying away

 Downy Woodpecker

 Spotted Thrush

 White-Breasted Nuthatch

 Young Buck in the woods - with antlers just beginning for the season

 Hiking along the old Railroad bed

 And arriving at the old railroad trestle

 A Horny Toad - we don't get to see one of those everyday

 Red shirt in the woods

 Sunset in the woods

 Sunset back home in Las Cruces