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After seeing and snagging the photo above I was compelled to blabber about it. It is a photo (taken from west to east) of the one bridge across the Taos Canyon Gorge in Taos County, New Mexico. At the bottom of the gorge is the Rio Grande River, which, like the Ganges, is one of the most sacred rivers on the planet. Having lived in Taos County for around three years, I have crossed that bridge many times. I cannot look at the photo without experiencing a volcanic eruption of memories.
The mountains in the background are part of one of the most sacred mountain ranges on Turtle Island; the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The portion of the mountain range in the photo is only a teeny tiny portion of the overall mountain range which begins southeast of Santa Fe and goes all the way up to central Colorado. It is the longest mountain range in the contiguous 48 states of the U. S. of A.
(The highest point in the photo is Mt. Wheeler which is the highest mountain in the state of New Mexico.)
My little family and I lived in southern Taos County which is located to the right of the photo. The town of Taos is barely even discernable in the photo but sits at the foot of those mountains in the photo. To go shopping we had to cross a high mountain pass and then go…
