Monday, April 29, 2019

Now That It's Been a Week . . .


There has been a distinct reduction in our Family Fun days since we moved into this house. And that is, of course, because there is so much to DO in a new house. The Fridays we used to spend descending into canyons and picnicking by streams we now spend planting gardens and fixing up the old chicken coop for its new residents (coming soon!).

But we did have a special Monday edition of Family Fun the day after Easter. We went to a national grasslands area about an hour away and spent some time driving around and exploring.

This photo of our picnic in the middle of nowhere reminded me of the descriptions by Laura Ingalls Wilder of her family stopping the wagon for lunch and sitting in the middle of the wide open prairie, eating hard boiled eggs dipped in a paper of salt and pepper.


The van is, of course, the modern equivalent of the Conestoga wagon.

And lest you think that we weren't really in the middle of nowhere and there was some kind of habitation on the other side of us, here's the opposite view.


Definitely nowhere.

That photo also shows the coming storm that forced us to cut our picnic short before the rain came and turned the dirt road we had to go back on into a mud pit.

Before the picnic, though, we explored an abandoned homestead up the road a bit. One of the things I love about New Mexico is that when the sun is shining, even I, the World's Worst Photographer, can't mess up a photo.

I mean, check out the light in these photos.





Who needs filters when you've got a New Mexican sky?

Of course, this weekend was right back to the weeding and fixing and planting, but that was a nice day off.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's good to have a little fun after all the work you & your family have been doing. Beautiful pictures!
Linda

Anonymous said...

"Who needs filters when you've got a New Mexican sky?" -- so true! We do some work in eastern New Mexico each year. Between the cobalt sky and the ethereal light, especially late in the afternoon, it's hard to go wrong no matter what you're taking photos of.