Gallegos Family Runs the Rio, 4/4/15. Pia, Alma and Che Gallegos came up from Albuquerque to run the Racecourse with us today. It was a little chillier than usual, and the river was running about 1000 cfs. Britt Runyon guided the raft.
As I drove away from the County Line, after completing the shuttle, some color caught my eye. I did a U-turn at the next pull-out and returned to the spot to see a blooming sweet vetch close up to a favorite boulder of mine. This boulder has a reddish facet that preserves the surface detail of flowing lava. The swirls seen on the rock are the flow patterns in the lava, just before it came to rest and cooled. You can see the same kinds of patterns in the lava that has poured out of vents in Volcanoes NP, on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Gallegos family. From the left: Pia, Alma and Che
One of the first of the Spring wildflowers, Sweet vetch blooms beside a basalt boulder. The reddish facet of the boulder shows the original swirls as the flowing lava came to rest.
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