Tour Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico
“THERE, SEE THOSE FLOWERS,” calls Susan Cross from the front of the small bus. “Those are mariposa lilies. This is a special sight; they don’t bloom every year.” Cross, our guide on the Ghost Ranch…
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Tag: Dinosaurs
Dig into This Fossil Collection
IT’S NOT SO FEARSOME NOW, save for the teeth. But imagine adding reptilian flesh, then inserting a cold, inquisitive eye into the flat, three-foot-long fossilized skull of the Bisti Beast, New…
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Seek Starry Skies And Big Feet
Above: About 500 dinosaur footprint and tail prints can be found at Clayton Lake State Park and Dinosaur Trackways. Photograph courtesy of New Mexico Tourism Department. THE GREAT SLOPING BACK of…
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Dino Flight
Above: Pterandon sightings in New Mexico have been reported since the 1800s. Photograph by AB Historic/Alamy. Roswell’s aliens may be New Mexico’s favorite unsolved mystery, but a variety of…
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A Year of Magical Living
Above: The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument at sunset. Photograph by Wayne Suggs. We all have our go-tos—a restaurant, hike, gallery, margarita, or green chile recipe—that we return to…
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The Land of the Giants
TROMPING UP A DRY arroyo flanked by scrubby creosote bushes and tumbled blocks of red mudstone, eight-yearold Dominic made his first discovery of the day. “Look at this, I found a fossil!” he shouted…
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