Yesterday, in Orilla Verde, I took photos of flowers, birds and scenery. I’m seeing more flowering hedgehog cacti – the claret cups and green hedgehogs. And the yucca has started.
Claret cup
Claret cup
Green hedgehog
Yucca
Chokecherry
Indian paintbrush and Sweet vetch
Apache plume
Apache plume, with Virginia creeper vining on a New Mexico olive
The Violet-green swallows were swooping all over the place, but I couldn’t see what bugs they were feeding on.
Violet-green swallows
Belted kingfisher
Downy woodpecker
The scenery along the Rio Grande at Orilla Verde is never disappointing. This is the most accessible piece of river in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument
Water abstract
Gaging Station gully
The Pilar Cliffs are partially veiled by rain
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About Evensteven
I am a photographer and author, and live in Embudo, New Mexico, alongside the Rio Grande. I have published a book of photography and accompanying text on running the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The first (print) edition is out of print, but a second edition is available as an iBook (eBook) through the iTunes bookstore. All Grand Canyon, river and nature lovers will enjoy my book:
The Grand: https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-grand/id672492447
I have also published six additional iBooks:
1. The Salt River: https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-salt-river/id12449222822.
2. Coyote Buttes: https://books.apple.com/us/book/coyote-buttes/id1271773201
3. Four Cornered, the Land: https://books.apple.com/us/book/four-cornered/id1384038899
4. Four Cornered, The Rivers: https://books.apple.com/us/book/four-cornered-book-two-the-rivers/id1402287568
5. Rio Marañon: https://books.apple.com/us/book/four-cornered-book-two-the-rivers/id1402287568
6. Rio Grande: https://books.apple.com/us/book/rio-grande-new-mexico/id1469126321
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