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VIRTUAL PHOTO TOUR III
Winter in New Mexico; Native Trees and Shrubs
The World that was Around Us
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WINTER IN NEW MEXICO
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction.”
Dr. Edward O. Wilson
On winter days visitors asking to see the garden areas had to be satisfied with a walk down a snow-shoveled trail, using more imagination than sight, as we talked about garden design and the plants that were resting under the blankets of snow as they waited for spring.
The snowdrifts in the fields, snow covered rocks, and icy trees re-defined our world, revealed the unseen outlines of the world that was around us.
 
Birds in Feeder Ridge Cave
 
Field Drifts Field and Barn
 
Zuni Mountains Snow on Ridge
 
Tree in Rock Pinon Ice
 
Snow on Pinon Branches Garden Trellis
 
Old Tricycle Winter Garden
 
Yard Tree View West
 
Market Kodiak on the Road
 
Garden Lantern Garden Trellis
Pool Ice
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NATIVE TREES and SHRUBS
We lived at an elevation ranging from 7,200-7,500 feet. Average annual precipitation was betweeen 15 and 16 inches per year, a majority from snowfall during the winter. Winter temperatures ranged from 20 degrees to a record of -50.
We found Aligator Juniper, Rocky Mountain Juniper, One Seed Juniper in the Cypress Family; Pinon and Ponderosa in the Pine Family; and in the Oak Family - Shrub Live, Wavy-leaf, and Gambel.
Shrubs included wild currents, rabbit brush, Fringed Sagebrush, Broom Snakeweed, Wolfberry, Cane Cholla, Apache Plume, Fourwing Saltbush, Bannana and Narrowleaf Yucca, and Chokecherry.
 
Baby Ponderosa Pine Ponderosa Pinecone
 
Fringed Sagebrush Banana Yucca
 
Wild Current Narrowleaf Yucca Flower
 
Alligator Juniper Ponderosa Pine
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THE WORLD THAT WAS AROUND US
We lived within a checkerboard area of land divided into State School Land, Navajo Reservation Land, National Parkland, and Private Land, and valleys of grazing land for cattle surrounded by sandstone cliffs and Canyons, and the Zuni Mountain Range.
For a store, we had a nearby Trading Post. Fifteen miles away was a Navajo school in the Village of Pine Hill, a General Store, a Public School, Three Small Cafes, An Art Gallery/Meeting Center, two RV Parks, A Navajo Chapter House and Village, and The Mormon Town of Ramah hosting a Senior Center, a Post Office, a Volunteer Fire Department, and a Historical Museum.
Zuni Mountains Sandstone Cliffs
 
Calf in Field Fence Line
 
Navajo Hogan Old Homestead Corral
 
Rockwall Ruins Pine Hill Navajo School
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