Last week we took a short camping trip into Arizona to visit family and friends and see the desert sights. 

Here are some scenes from along the road:

Texas Canyon

Desert and Mountains 

Dennis isn't actually becoming a mobster. It was just cold that morning. 

And Mike

More desert and mountains

The Spring bloom was just beginning

Mountains through a screen door

Cactus

Cactus Wrens

Canyon Towhee

Skyline Regional Park - outside of Buckeye, AZ

Kartchner Caverns State Park, Benson, AZ

Dennis' camera took this all by itself

Bye. Have a good trip.

Over the Christmas weekend we went for a short and nearby camping trip: Truth or Consequences, Elephant Butte Lake, The Gila National Forest, and Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. (All within about a 150 mile range of home. We're still not back up to our full energy and vitality since having COVID in mid-November.) 

It was fun, and yet we took it very easy.

We stopped for a hot spring soak at the Charles Motel and Spa in Truth or Consequences.

Elephant Butte Lake

And while driving to the Gila National Forest, we passed through the little village of Cuchillo, NM.

It had snowed 2 days earlier in the National Forest. It was a great place to visit on Christmas afternoon.

And the day after Christmas we spent the afternoon in Bosque del Apache. We have been there several times before and have always loved it. 

This bridge is over New Mexico Highway #1 a few miles south of the Bosque's visitor center. NM1 is the old paved highway that roughly parallels the old route of the Spanish colonial Camino Real.

Bosque del Apache

A mating pair of Bald Eagles

Hawks

Goldfinch

Black birds in a bare tree

Javelina

Tres Javelinas

Dancing Sandhill Crane

Snow Geese

Snow Geese in Flight

 For a video of the Snow Geese in flight, click here. 

Moonrise at sunset

Sunshine on the power lines driving home along NM1

Oh, and we hope you have a very Happy New Year.