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This tree made a great rattling noise in the breeze. We picnicked under it. The new macro lens was great for plant shots, very fun and it really makes you try to see around you differently. There were a couple of tiny springs that made the path wet. This is about as extreme as the water got.
90 seconds after she saw the first rock climbers. If you look closely, you can see the red dot of my kid in the arroyo by the boulder's shadow. She was happy just digging in the sand for a while. This place must be something after a rain.
Loki was pretty edgy most of the trip. He barfed in the truck, growled at most people and howled and barked at other dogs. There were lots of off leash dogs - their people had impressive control over them - and he'd hear them coming from at least a quarter mile away. His weird dog-groaning and complaining really carries in an almost-silent rock canyon. Even though it was probably a strain on him, it felt like it was good for him to be out.
Before she climbed this one, she spent 10 minutes rubbing mud on the rock and her hands and shoes because she was convinced it would help her grip. The mud was mostly sandy, so, well, it didn't. She switched from her red cap to a pink bandana that she latched onto when I put a black one around Loki's neck while we were getting ready. It's kind of hard to convey the textures, but it's beautiful there. Sandy river bed, random boulders, colorful brush, tall rocks, scrubby bushes in the back. Very, very quiet, too. You could hear people talking half a mile away and flies buzzing 40 or 50 feet away. (With my former-musician-who-sat-next-to-drummer hearing, that's saying something.) An individual bunch of chamisa flowers; they look a whole lot different isolated from the yellow bushes they belong to. All of them in this little canyon were pretty windswept so they looked - like this one does - as though they'd been rotated 90 degrees.
   
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Description: Took Sydney hiking and picnicking today in a place called Diablo Canyon. It's north and west of Santa Fe, cool trip. People climbing rocks and hiking with dogs, and a train of real Jeep dudes entered the canyon right as we were leaving. Nice fall colors, beautiful autumn day. I'd never heard of it before today, but apparently it was in some scenes of 3:10 to Yuma. The canyon walls messed with my GPS so we never found the geocache we were looking for but geocaching remains a great way to stumble across stuff I'd never find otherwise. Once Sydney watched a young lady climbing a rock, she was up every boulder we came across.
Location: New Mexico

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