This week's commute: one hundred feet from our front door to the front door
of the office. We're doing a land trust on a forested hillside overlooking
the north end of the San Luis Valley, with hot springs, a campground, and an
office. That's where we're working, at the office. We parked the motorhome
on a flat spot on their driveway. No hookups, but we can deal with that.
Black and white and orange grosbeaks with a touch of yellow clog the feeder.
Chittering pine siskin by the dozen. Squadrons of hummingbirds. Deer
wander the grounds.
The land trust protects the hot springs, an old mine that houses two hundred
fifty thousand bats each summer, the natural landscape, and some ranchland
that is included in the watershed.
If you're looking on a map, the closest town is Villa Grove, way north of
Alamosa and thirty miles south of Poncha Springs.
