There is something totally magical about the light in Northern New Mexico. I'm going to miss the beautiful shadows, old wood and the feeling of the West all around.
Cimarron NM: 'Valerie in the Gallery' loved to tell her story of a 20 year collection of Boy Scout troop badges.
Annually Boy Scouts arrive from all over the US to visit the Philmont Scout Ranch and add to her badge collection that extends the entire length of her art gallery above the counter wall.
Cimarron's bookstore is brightly painted like a shelf in your den.
Passing by Raton, NM we stopped at the 33,000 acre (52 sq mile) NRA Center. The Welcome Center has a large museum of historic firearms, history - also a gun and gift shop.
Capulin Volcano in northeastern NM is a 1,300 ft cinder cone last active about 60,000 years ago.
The mile hike around the top rim at 8,000 ft. is an amazing bird's eye view/360 degrees of the plains below. The hike starts at the parking lot in the middle of this photo.
As the parking lot nearly disappeared from view (lower right), we continued our hike.
The wind started blowing hard and a dark storm to the west seemed to be moving towards us. We finished our hike and drove east into Okalahoma (briefly), then into Kansas to spend the night in Elkhart.
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