This was my walk this morning--past horses, onion fields, an irrigation ditch, and a pecan orchard.
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| Horses at the neighbors' place |
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Field of onions being harvested.
Planted last fall, each onion is now the size of a large grapefruit
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This field was quiet and empty two days ago. Now it is filled with kneeling workers,
carefully picking onions and placing them into the big crates. A forklift works day and night,
loading the containers onto trucks. |
Irrigation water flowing down from the Elephant Butte Dam, about 80 miles to the north
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| Pecan trees. The dust in the distance is from the onion harvesting. |
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| The soil under the pecan trees looks like this between flooding by irrigation |
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Back home again to the big scary cactus, started with just two pads 11 years
ago and now about 9 feet tall. |
