Tucked into a bend of the river
the Rio Grande Nature Center is
one of my favorite places in Albuquerque.
I try to visit each time I am in town.
Tucked into the side of the trail,
one late October day,
amid some dying weeds and some decaying trees,
delicate purple flowers appear.
I don’t know how or when I discovered this special spot,
but I suspect that my special friends Gladys and J.C.
had something to do with it.
23 October 2009
Rio Grand Nature Center State Park
Albuquerque, NM
Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
29 July 2009
Back to the ranch
delicate petals of purple
in various stages of growth.
See you along the Trail.
Filed under Ghost Ranch Views, Photo
Rocky Mountain National Park
9 July 2011
Delicate, tiny petals
create a field of purple.
See you along the Trail.
Filed under National Park, Photo
Rocky Mountain National Park
9 June 2011
A
solitary
purple
sentry
stands
at
its
appointed
post.
See you along the Trail.
Filed under National Park, Photo
Rocky Mountain National Park
9 July 2011
The journey through
Rocky Mountain National Park
continued.
At some point,
I learned that
National Park Rangers
enforce the speed limit.
But he was nice
and allowed a warning
to suffice.
This may have been before,
it may have been after;
for certain it is
a different spot in the park
and
a different shade of purple.
See you along the Trail.
Filed under National Park, Photo
Rocky Mountain National Park
9 June 2011
As in other places,
bees enjoy purple flowers in
Rocky Mountain National Park.
See you along the Trail.
Filed under National Park, Photo
Riverside Discovery Center and Zoo
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
6 September 2010
The 2010 Great Plains Tour made its way through Nebraska.
There we paused to visit the small zoo in Scottsbluff.
Never did figure out why the town is called Scottsbluff
and the National Monument is called Scotts Bluff.
Of course I never tried.
See you along the Trail.
Filed under National Park, Photo
Denver Zoo
Denver, Colorado
1 September, 2010
Spiders are not the only creatures
that enjoy the purple flowers of
the Denver Zoo.
The Denver Zoo
is not the only place where
bees enjoy purple flowers.
See you along the Trail.
Filed under Photo
Denver Zoo
Denver, Colorado
1 September 2010
The Denver Zoo marked the beginning of
the 2010 trek Tricia and I made to
the Great Plains.
We enjoyed viewing the flowers:
the spiders enjoyed living in them.
See you along the Trail.
Filed under Photo
Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
23 August, 2010
A picture posted a couple weeks ago
shows a bee enjoying
purple flowers at Ghost Ranch.
This photo was taken over a year after the first one.
It cannot be
the same bee.
Perhaps a descendant?
See you along the Trail.
Filed under Ghost Ranch Views, Photo
