Thanksgiving Hike

Morning in High Rolls

Dr. K, Becca and I took a Thanksgiving Hike this morning on the Grand View Trail.  We ran into four people during our trek, two of them twice coming and going.  One guy told us that he and his woman companion (wife?) were out burning calories prior to the big turkey dinner today.  That rekindled a memory from my youth; when my brother and I were young our father would get peeved with us if we ate breakfast and lunch on Thanksgiving day, the idea being that we had to come into the big meal on an entirely empty stomach.  I didn't buy it then, and I don't subscribe to that theory today.

American Robin

A little closer look

Another view of Haynes Canyon

Becca is always looking for her high country buddies

She wasn't disappointed when Cowboy and Champ came to visit

Time for the communal peeing klatch

Cowboy about to head home

Out at the edge of our property

Tall tree/short cliff

View from the Grand View Trail

White Sands National Monument from altitude

Fall color in Three-leaf Sumac

Back through the cut

Sotol growing on boulders

Shadow on boulder