Long Trek Under a Blue Sky

Headed for the valley ahead

Today's weather was totally different from yesterday's.  The strong sun forced me to take off my Polarplus vest after a short spell.  Even with a thin windbreaker on I felt too warm.  Becca and I did a lot of bushwhacking this morning, hunting for overgrown single-track trails nearly impossible to find.  On our way back we saw Mr. Tacoma's truck parked in the lineman school area, but that was the only sign of him.  I'm sure he'd already made it to the top of Tortugas Mountain.

Wisp of a cloud on the Organ Mountains

Quite a dropoff

The look of fall in an arroyo

Yellow butterfly

Completely dead Hedgehog Cactus

Doing a little bushwhacking

A pickup truck heading for the top of the mountain

Old trail through the desert

Unnatural-looking hole in a flat rock

Fruit of the Pencil Cholla

Death of an old friend--a large Barrel Cactus that didn't survive a cold snap