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B. D. Samelny
1952
Journal
19
Aug 17 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000 ft., Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico.
It was feeling on a Scrophulariaceae of some sort. Bright red. (The Screph, not the hummer.) We had a good hard rain storm this afternoon. Hail too. The creek had been falling for the last 2 days. This ought to put some more water in it.
Aug 18 Broke camp and headed for Santa Fe over the Route 285 thru down the East side of the San Juans. We passed through some beautiful country in Colorado. A great deal of Aspen growing all over the steep slopes. We turned south at Antonito, Colorado. We stopped by the Ranger station at Tres Piedras, N.M. and inquired into likely camping spots in Yellow Pine. They gave us directions to a place called Summit Spring, about 5 miles from T.P. We then proceeded to Santa Fe to pick up mail and money. Mail aplenty but no dough! So we will have to wait over night for a reply to Ward's telegram. We slept out in the brush about 1 mi north of Santa Fe. Sandy soil with Pinon and junipers.
Aug 19 Picked up the money about noon, bought our groceries and headed north. Noticed again the great number of humming-birds along 285, feeding, apparently, on a beautiful purple roadside weed. Looks like a Ericiferaeaceae of some sort. We got to Tres Piedras about 4:00 pm. We could not find the goddamn spring - we