{"id":6405,"date":"2017-11-27T09:51:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2023-11-07T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T18:36:09","slug":"aztec-ruins-national-monument-along-the-animas-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/aztec-ruins-national-monument-along-the-animas-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Aztec Ruins National Monument – Along the Animas River"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week I moved on from this completed painting for Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico. Projects are piling up here. Below is the sketch I posted some weeks back, and it’s a great example of things changing as they go along. The Park Service, of course, hates change, but, I don’t know, it just happened<\/em>. The entire thing got reversed, river got bigger (like it is), cottonwoods got smaller (like they are), the chickadee changed into a turkey. It’s just the process of creating something from nothing but a blank piece of paper.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Some things remained, especially this little desert cottontail that I followed around the native plant garden near the visitor center. I could have petted it if I’d had a Cheeto to use as a bribe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here’s the river in summer when I was there. A green ribbon of life. Amazingly, even though the bottomland is packed with people, the original ecosystem is almost perfectly intact, right down to the cougars and bobcats. This will become a wayside exhibit panel with some text added to explain all this. It turned out pretty well, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Thanks for reading this week.
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