Abiquiu NM

We are camped at a COE campground on Abiquiu lake. We were here last year and the lake was very low. This year it is full. The Chama river flows into it and looks like the wet snowy winter last season stretched into NM. I said yesterday that I would post about The Painted Desert today. You say you don't remember that? Well, hit the back button and read it again. It was very informative. The painted desert is not a park unto itself. It is part of The Petrified Forest park. There are some scenic pull-outs along the road and a few hikes. The colorful sediment was deposited in the same body of water that waterlogged the Petrified trees. We are here to visit a place near here called Ghost Ranch. It was a source of inspiration for Georgia O'keeffe whose studio and home is in Abiquiu.