So today was another of those windy, dusty, sandy days. About 4:30 I looked out and it took a couple of seconds to realize that my pony, Traveler, was in the neighbors yard. I made a made dash for the door and was outside wondering where the fence was down allowing the ponies to get out. I knew if Traveler was out, so was Stormy. Most people just start chasing the animal once they realize it is out. I know that it takes a few minutes but less time in the long run to take time to get halters and a bucket of grain or horse cookies. (same for a loose dog, get it's leash and some food) By the time I got to the gate that was hanging open the ponies knew I had been in the shed where FOOD was and were already coming to the open gate. I gave them horse cookies and led them over to a smaller pen where the gate was still in one piece. Hubby had slipped a rope over Travelers head but we never had to put one on Stormy, just had trouble keeping him out of the bucket of cookies so that Trave could have a couple. Thankfully neither pony had got into any trouble while out. Minutes later Hubby had a hammer and was fixing the gate. The wind had pushed and pulled until the hinge and come loose and fallen off allowing the ponies to walk out of their pen. I called my friendly neighbor and told her if any damage had been done to let us know and we would take care of it. She just laughed and said don't worry as usually it was her dog in our yard, which has never bothered us, just her. Good neighbors are hard to come by.
We stopped at the gas station across the road from where we normally buy Indian fry bread since there was no one selling it, and bought bean burritos and peanut butter cookies to have a quick picnic by Jemez Creek. There was some water in the creek but not as much as is normal during April. One photo is from inside a covered picnic area looking out toward the trees and road. Another is of a tree that has grown up through the roads, a real bonsai tree.
These are photos of the high desert country that can be seen as you drive on Highway 550 between Rio Rancho and Jemez Pueblo.
Many, many years ago, I'm guessing about 15 years ago, while roaming around in the Jemez Mountains we found a rock that with a lot of imagination can look sort of like a skull. Then for many years we had sort of lost where that rock was at. We knew the general area - the mountains - but never got to where the rock was. Last fall we decided to find and came close but it got to late before we found it and we had to come home to feed the critters. Plus I wanted to see it in daylight so I could photograph it. Last week we went to the mountains and actually found Skull Rock again. Maybe to you it doesn't look like a skull. But to me it does, but then I have a heck of an imagination for things like that. These are photos of Skull Rock from a little distance and then closer and closer. Of course the real close up has a lot of shadows on it cause it sort of shades its on face all day. In the following posts are some of the other rocks that were near by.
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