Most of you are very familiar with the High Road at this point but I doubt that many of you are aware of the Low Road. What you may not understand, even about the High Road, is that it is the old highway that connects Santa Fe and Taos, dotted with beautiful little Spanish land grant villages along the way. The Low Road is the NEW highway that connects Santa Fe and Taos.

Lately I’ve been particularly aware of the mornings, just after sunrise. Perhaps its because the days have been so hot and our mornings are always cool, especially when we’ve had rain the night before.

Amazing what this high desert can do with a little water. The grasses are lush, the wild flowers proliferating. And the afternoons are consistently cooled by rumbling storms and rainclouds.

I promised to share photos of the yak today. There was a bull, two cows and two babies in this small herd. There was something incredible about seeing them out in the wild like this.

Jerry and Camilla Lopez raise buffalo and yak here in Truchas. They do this simply for the joy of it and because they look so great on the land. My friend, LaShanda Epp, is part of the Lopez family and she took Kim and me out to visit the animals the other day.