Bighorns on the Rocks

April 13, 2016 11:18 AM by JHF in Animals, New Mexico { 0 comments }

Definitely noticed us but didn’t mind too much

We saw these female bighorn sheep hopping over boulders at the bottom of the gorge near the Rio Grande. Some of the rocks are full of holes from gases trapped while the minerals were in a molten state. The geology of this place is only partly known to me, but they look like chunks of lava (basalt). The stuff is everywhere in the volcano lands of northern New Mexico. These enormous chunks have fallen from the top of the cliffs some eight hundred feet above—be glad you weren’t there at the time! The bighorns themselves were on the opposite bank, but almost close enough to hit by throwing something at them.

Tags: bighorns, Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Rio Grande Gorge

John Hamilton Farr lives in Taos, New Mexico, U.S.A. with his classical pianist wife. “Possibly the only place I can get away with this,” he says. As New York Times best-selling author James C. Moore (Bush’s Brain) put it in a review of John’s first book, “Buffalo Lights is the work of a man attuned to the world who sees it differently than you and I and writes about it with a language and a vision of life that is impossible to ignore.” John is the author of BUFFALO LIGHTS, TAOS SOUL, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, and THE HELEN CHRONICLES. He has been publishing online since 1996 (Zoo Zone, Farr Site, MacFaust, GRACK!, FarrFeed) and blogs regularly here at JHFARR.COM. See also → John’s Twitter profile, Amazon Author Page, video channel at YouTube, and website photos at SmugMug. To email John, please see CONTACT INFO on About page.

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