The Red Rocks at Jemez Pueblo

Really very beautiful rock formations, located on Highway 4 at the south end of the Jemez Mountains.

I like the red rocks, the brilliant blue sky and the green of the trees. The color is just brilliant in the New Mexico sunshine.

Soda Dam

Soda Dam is an interesting geological formation on Highway 4 near Jemez Springs, NM. We were there almost 40 years ago, and again last week. It looks exactly the same as it did in 1970.

Soda Dam was formed from the water of the Jemez River spilling through a hole in the rock and forming a waterfall that splashes into a poll down an arch of calcium carbonate rock called travertine.

There was no one there last Tuesday when we stopped, but during the summer months, Soda Dam is a popular place for tourists to visit, climb around the rock formation and splash around in the pool.



Cousin Peter on the road in the Jemez Mountains with us.

Up in the Jemez Mountains

Taken this past week on our drive through most of the length of the Jemez Mountains.

Valles Caldera

Valles Caldera is a 12 mile wide collapsed volcano in the Jemez Mountains near Los Alamos, NM, which is owned by the federal government as a National Preserve. It was formed by a series of volcanic eruptions about one million years ago. It is used to feed cattle in the summer, and elk come there to graze all year long.

On the way up the Hill

We went to Los Alamos earlier this week. The views as you climb the hill to the town have some of the most dramatice scenery in New Mexico.

Snow up on the Sangres

Pictures taken near Pojoaque, New Mexico.

Looking around at Lamy

We were down in Lamy today at the train station -- always a good place to snap a few pictures.