Last evening, we met our friend Jennie for dinner, then went to the Lights Up exhibition at Tucson Botanical Garden. Holiday music was playing throughout the garden and there were lights in the trees, an electric train running through historic model Arizona buildings, and a spirit of wonder amongst the guests.
On our drive back to Tucson from Albuquerque, we stopped a few times in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, to see birds. Located just south of San Antonio, New Mexico, the Bosque was established in 1939 to provide a stopover site for migrating waterfowl. It is a refuge for tens of thousands of cranes, geese, and ducks every winter. We saw a few hundred Canadian geese and ducks.
