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For nine days in October, my morning skies are filled with hot air balloons. This was a particularly good year for a certain two year old I know. Iwi the Kiwi came to visit on the first day... ...and the next day brought another visitor to our block ... ...throughout the week there were some good ascencions. Here is a typical morning commute... ...topped off by a great Saturday morning of Bachechi (open space), breakfast and balloons... ...next year I think we will get up extra early and watch them take off from Fiesta Park.
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I mad another trip to the collection area closest to home that I love the most. This area is full of nice petrified wood specimens siting on top of the ground. Most of the samples are about 10 to 50 cm in length and 6 to 10 cm in width. The dominant color is tan but there is ample black, red and yellow too. These samples occur on top of the erosion hills that the nearby huge arroya that runs north and south far down in the valley. The area is also littered with quartz, jasper, agate, apache tears and many other minerals. The area is open range and not posted. Much of the land is for sale so it must be privately held but permission to collect does not seem to be necessary or required. It might take some research to find out who does own it. Entry to the area is made by turning south off of highway 6 about 5 or 6 miles west of Los Lunas, NM. This is a sandy road by passenger cars seem to be able to handle it without getting stuck. I would not wander off the road without 4WD. The road is located at the SW Livestock Auction on Dalles Road. Stay on Dalles Rd until you cross the busy railroad tracks then turn west (right) on any number of dirt or gravel roads that lead to the erosion gullies where the fossilized wood and colorful rocks are too numerous to count. These eroision gullies continue for 40 or 50 miles all the way down to where US60 intersects I 25. It would take a lifetime to collect it all. I will post images of some representative samples of the fossils I take from these beds starting with the petrified wood. The geology at the surface is primarily Piedmont (Holocene to upper Pleistocene interspersed with windblown sand and gypsum dunes of the same era. The ground is very easy to dig in and so far no snakes have been seen and only a few cactus so it would be a great place to take kids. I expect I will find mammalian fossils in this area. It is great place to share since there is absolutely no possibility of ever being collected out. Larry Robinson on Silver Hill.
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