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| Organ Mountains in the distance |
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| Part of the new Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument |
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| 9,000-foot peaks in the Organ Mountains |
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| Loving the arroyo |
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| Ocotillo flowers |
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| Sotol |
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| Flowers of the Sotol |
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| Feasting on pollen (tiny corn-on-the-cob?) |
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The Big Day
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Before the Winds Came
Ocotillo blossoms We got a fairly early start this morning, saw the Basset people and their hounds while we descended LDR-A arroyo, saw a hu...
7 comments:
Great close-up of the bee landing on the pollen.
Fantastic news about the mountain! I find it hard not to be an Obama fan.
Yes, Jacqui, President Obama has done some very good things for this country and its people despite constant obstruction by a group of Republicans who call themselves the GOP (the Grand Old Party); nothing grand about the obstructionists. The president has let us down on significant issues, but that's a subject for another day.
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Whoo-hoo! What great news! I'll have to check my local paper to see if Obama's signing made it to the national news section. This is, indeed, a wonderful development--and I'd probably have completely overlooked it if I didn't stayed tuned in to "Desert Packrat"!
Appreciate it, Scott. I really was dubious that we'd ever see this happen, but I'm absolutely ecstatic about it.
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Update: The national monument designation WAS, in fact, the top news story on the National news page of the Philadelphia Inquirer (as I'd hoped it would be).
Glad to hear it, Scott. I hope that news of the national monument gets out around the world as supporters predict it will.
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