92 Dec. 28 Photo exhibit at Hotel Bellevista, 28 people came, Abel Basti had been researching bamboo and fire history in the Rio Villages - lower Rio Manzo area. He reported that there was fairly good agreement that the bamboo and rotoda occurred in 1939 [the year she was married etc] Big fires occurred in 1905 and 1915. Everyone seemed to think that the bamboo now is not as big as it used to be. One house closed up the doors & windows, but the smoke came down the chimney. Dec. 29 Every part of day had still no real rain. Drove up to Refugio Marmyer, Amaranth in bloom on the flats, but over in the forest only in sunny spots. As you walk up to the first lake down the Refugio you come to a place where the Amaranth stops as if cut with a knife; solid Amaranth, then none, my photo spot with the log is solid, tall Amaranth, except that some stems have been snapped or cut off about a foot above the ground. They are only in early bud stage, so who? Across the path, where I photographed earth cypress Nov. 8, there is almost no Amaranth but lots adjacent. At the first bend in the road below the Refugio, also photographed for abundant cores on Nov. 8, there are very few Amaranth except lots close by. Dec. 30 Drove to Rio Catano Otero. Stafford Roberts report it is indeed dry this year. He showed me kingfisher holes in a mud bank near his house at the west end of Zapu Venerdi. Mosquitos and horse flies at our campsite;