It's a Yurt!

No lightning, No thunder, lots of apparently inedible fruits of the earth.  29 hikers (maybe more?) We enjoyed a gentle path to an almost "rocky shore"  where we wondered what are they doing over there?  Lots of red mushrooms and quite a few yellow ones.  

It's a Yurt!

Mushroom (Norma Nowfel)

On Wednesday, look for Wayne as the leader, while I attend a meeting of the Old Spanish Trail Association in Alamosa.  (I'd rather be with you).  See if you can get him to help the next week, as Judy and I go to Fort Collins 

for a rather sad, but inevitable ceremony for her sister's husband.  He was a leader of a water improvement team up at Creede some years ago.  That means that the fish in the Rio Grande were no longer dangerous food.

On Saturday, the 19th, the Old Spanish Trail Association will be featuring Costilla County and where one of the branches of the trail was.  It will be an auto tour over some of the back roads there, as well as some of our history in this valley and some big scenery.  We will embark from the town plaza (left at the only filling station in town (bathroom for a purchase--the only one in town). Gathering there before 10 a.m.

We will arrive in San Luis, the county seat in time for a late lunch and a climb up the beautiful Stations of the Cross--by a local artist who has a smaller verision in the Vatican in Italy.  Then, I'll urge some of you to follow me back to Alamosa for your shopping, etc., passing the oldest little church in the valley and an interesting (safe) crossing of the Rio Grande in a beautiful setting.

No charge!  Just be at the town of Costilla, New Mexico, right on the State Line, at 10a.m. 

where we will depart in several cars (including your own if you wish) through some of the back roads and rural communities.