Just for fun: more high desert landscapes and cholo (used descriptively and not deprecatingly; I happen to like the culture) English. The freeway is I-25 on the way to Raton Pass -- I've driven it often cruising at 90 until the CO border -- and the towns are northern RG valley north of Santa Fe (still officially La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís, the Royal City of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi).
I PUT SOME GAS - tribute to northern New Mexico talk... <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PnP9WvtCPY> On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 6:54 PM Patrick Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Following up with the exchange with Philip Barret, about we'uns posting > landscapes within 10 miles of our several homes, here is a contribution, > entirely justifying my earlier deprecation of my photography skills, or > lack of them. > > Acequias, bridge-path and watergate infrastructure, pasture- and cropland, > early in the season. > > Context: High desert NM; citywide, we get a 9" average of annual > precipitation, actual amounts ranging from 14" on the average near the > Sandia Mountain foothills on the east side of town, to about 5" in parts of > the West Mesa. I think I, and the scenery, get's about the 9" average. > > Early, not late spring. Spring has sprung, but buds are just starting out. > Give it another month, and things will be much greener; or will be if ... > > Dought. Yes, 9" is full-rain; we've missed our quota for a year or so now, > this after a 1029 with more-than-ample rain by our standards and minor > riverbank (Rio Grande -- Great River) flooding. > > Actually, even today it was greener than it looks in my photos; sorry for > the poor quality. iPhone 6s, in case someone has tips for improvement. The > Vida Verde farm shot in particular is surprisingly dark; facing west at > about 4:30 MDST? > > Sand and dust! This region must have been undersea at one point for the > soils is beach and riverine sand and silt; that and -- to the west -- > volcanic remnants. > > Once again, this riverine bosque (from the Spanish for "thicket") is a > green strip about 2 miles or so wide in a high desert, 5 to 7.5K feet; > wider where ancient pueblo Indian and later Hispanic-settler acequias -- > irrigation ditches, a system extending in a dense network 100's of total > miles N/S within 1 mile on each side of the river -- brings the water to > *pocos > ranchitos *and small truck farms, still worked along the river where > high-end residential developments haven't developed. > > Water rights are still in 2021 governed by an ancient Spanish set of laws > wholly independent of later common law and statute law developments, which > may have originated long pre-Columbus; water rights and duties belong to > the property and can't, or only with difficulty, be separated or > transferred or sold -- no *Chinatown* (the movie) here! > > These photos show just a bit of the wide variety of acequia, bosque > landscape, which will be much thicker, greener, and shady later in the > season. > > > > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgtoum%2B4_0dMNMhwL%2BtzKsR%3D%3D4V%2BfAJm8hfTc47Ssei9Pg%40mail.gmail.com.
