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Cervantes Restaurant & Lounge, Albuquerque. Popular establishment, In business over 40 years also producers of
Cervantes Salsa. April, 2009. Yes, they are still in business... IMG_2530 by Ricardo, on Flickr.
Young Tumbleweed pulled out of the ground April 15, 2015, Albuquerque area. This is a good time to yank them out.
Easy to see and easy to pull out. Note the red veins along the larger branches, which helps identify them. IMG_5443
by Ricardo, on Flickr.
Higher water levels? In Rio Rancho, we;ve noticed the water seems to be gettin' high.
As long as flooding isn't an issue, that's never a bad thing in NM IMO. I remember when I was little hearing people say the Rio Grande would have no water left in it by 2020. Thank God that doesn't seem to be becoming the case.
Well the river level in our section is mostly controlled by the Cochiti Dam, but other flows can contribute to its rising and falling. Before the dam was built in 1973 the river regularly flooded, giving us the cottonwood forest. Lack of natural flooding has reduced cottonwood reproduction and created an environment of mostly mature cottonwoods with lots of dead branches, logs, and a thick layer of dead leaves, all of which contribute to a high risk for wildfires. There are definitely sections of the Rio Grande that have no water in them from time to time, since so much water is diverted for agricultural uses. The Middle Rio Grande has about 1/6 of the amount of water in it that it used to have before humans started diverting its water.
I left the Abq area three years ago, but certain images remain. One of them is on Guadalupe Street.
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