An afternoon at the Bosque

We took a weekend retreat from the fridged weather in Santa Fe –we hadn't seen a day over 20 degrees all week –and traveled south to stay with our grandpawrents in Albuquerque. We took advantage of a warm, clear afternoon and walked to the Bosque along the Rio Grande.

The Bosque in New Mexico is a treasured gem. Spanish for woodlands, the Bosque is a unique ecosystem of riparian forests and floodplains that surround the river. This ecosystem is specific to the Southwest's arid landscape and found mostly along the Rio Grande. The combination of the river and the forest makes the Bosque a haven for an unusual variety of flora and fauna and an oasis of vegetation and biodiversity. The Bosque is home to a variety of shrubs, grasses, and deciduous trees. Desert hackberry, blue palo verde, graythorn, Mexican elder, "virgin's bower" and "Indian root" all flourish here in the Bosque. A recently published field guide lists more than 500 different species of animals living in New Mexico’s Bosque as well.

Since we had the riverbank to ourselves and no one was around, our pawrents let us play for a bit along the riverbank and the shallow streams. It was a balmy 40-degree day with the warm sunshine beaming down, so we had a blast playing in the cool water and running along the shore. 

Little sis was quite the athlete running through the sand and leaping across the shallow waters. She was having a blast! Sometimes I am amazed how fast her little stubby legs can carry her. What a wonderful afternoon at the Bosque!

Happy tails, happy trails!

-Roxie