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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Less Chilly

This & next: slightly different perspectives of the same image
Despite a temperature of 37F when Dr. K, Willow and I started off this morning it really didn't feel that cold this morning; the difference from yesterday was no wind and a bit of sunshine.

We altered our regular route because somebody was shooting multiple consecutive rounds of both low caliber and high caliber ammunition somewhere south of Tortugas Mountain.

We cut out the middle branch arroyo so we could bushwhack westward directly to the right branch.  From there we finished the rest of our trek.


Organ Mountains

What's red?

Red color is fishhooks on this barrel cactus

This & next:  same barrel cactus


This & next:  views from the right branch arroyo


Willow in the right branch

Sky over the steep hill west of the right branch

 

1 comment:

Dr. K said...

I like the image of the red fishhooks on the Barrel cactus.

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