Walk at Rio Grande Nature Center with Lucy, Eric, and Tricia.
Banish Misfortune – Rosemary Beland
In the Bleak Midwinter – The Many
The Son Of Mary – Harry Belafonte
I Believe in Father Christmas – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Huron Carol – Jonathan Maracle
God is a River – Peter Mayer
Asleep The Snow Came Flying – Tim Story
Christmas In The Trenches – John McCutcheon
The Sun is Rising – The Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal
No. 44 – Chorus “Hallelujah” – Sutherland/Bumbry/Mckellar/Ward/Sir Adrian Boult
First Noël – Dolly Parton
Northumbrian Lullabye – Malcolm Dalglish
O Holy Night – Mahalia Jackson
Wexford Carol – Lumiere String Quartet
Christmas Feast – Rim Banna
I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day – Burl Ives
Tag Archives: Rio Grande Nature Center
03 January 2026
Filed under Albuquerque, Christmas, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Purple flowers, Rio Grande Nature Center 2
During one visit to the Rio Grand Nature Center.
Tricia, Eric, and I saw an eagle
soaring high above us:
beauty, dignity, power in flight –
a joy to watch
but hard to photograph.
Not so these purple flowers
along the path.
23 October 2009
Rio Grande Nature Center State Park
Albuquerque, NM
Wistfulness
Wistfulness mixes with joy
as I read Eric’s three-letter text:
ABQ.
He has landed in Albuquerque
for another summer at Ghost Ranch.
Joy.
It appears most likely
I will not spend
any time in
New Mexico
this year.
Wistfulness.
So I post this photo of the Sandias
taken from the Rio Grande Nature Center
and smile.
See you along the Trail …
just not the Trail in New Mexico …
at least this year.
Along the Graybeard Trail 