The Border***
April 9, 2016 – Despite strong winds for two days, I was fortunate to enjoy quite a variety of scenery in a recent trip to southern Arizona, around the small town of Patagonia. Nearby Patagonia State Park and the Sonoita Creek Nature Conservancy provided woodland, water, birds and flowers. South of Patagonia are the ghost town of Harshaw and the border community of Lochiel. I was lucky enough to see and photograph a family of Coati crossing the road near Harshaw. Although it is mountainous from Patagonia to Harshaw and on to Lochiel, the rolling hills and grassland of the beautiful San Rafael Valley spread out north of Lochiel and is the route travelled by the early Spanish explorers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the border region I enjoyed talking to a number of Border Patrol people, who have the exceedingly difficult task of covering hundreds of square miles of rugged terrain. (click here to view gallery)
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