Sunflower looking back at Taos.

I saw these sunflowers along the side of the road towards Taos.

Beauty in the garden at 7,200 feet elevation.

Jemez River

Three different pictures of the Jemez river.
These pictures are for a friend, and I hope I got the one she was talking about.

A good dog story:

Today Barb & I took a day trip to Chaco Canyon. I hope to post a picture or two later on. On the way home I finally got to see (with my camera at the ready) something pretty amazing. Two dogs (actin on their own, no rancher in sight) where herding about twenty goats. I don't know where they were going-there was no ranch in sight. I was just going to get a normal type picture when I saw something that really impressed me. The dogs wanted the goats to cross the (pretty much) deserted highway. But, while the goats were crossing a pickup truck came sailing down the road.

I only had time to roll down the window and take a picture from the car-but you can see that one dog stood his ground in the middle of the road, and forced the truck to stop while the other dog hurried the flock across the road. An amazing and brave pair of dogs. I only got a good picture of the dog on my side of the car. (In addition to guarding his flock from the truck, this dog made it pretty apparent to me he didn't care to have me get out of our car while his flock of goats was around). The guy (probably Navajo) who owns the flock & the dogs will probably never know the great job they did for him this afternoon.