Trail Along Rio Grande River

The other day we decided we take a walk along the Rio Grande River near the Alameda Bridge. The cottonwood trees were beautiful as many had turned a lovely shade of yellow. We parked in the parking lot and walked under the bridge that had car traffic on it and then walked across the foot bridges and along the river.

Smoke From Fires

These are photos I took this evening when the wind blew the smoke in again after almost a week of this. The smoke from the forest fires in Arizona is coming into New Mexico and causing a lot of air quality problems here. That is smoke in our skies here not clouds as it may look like in the photo. We haven't seen a blue sky in over a week. The machine that tests air quality normally reads about a 30 (what ever the scale may mean) and is reading about 200 when smoke is at it's worst right now. I have head that some of this smoke has been tracked all the way to Iowa. But at least we are not right on the edge of the fire as those that live near it are.