There’s a bend in the Rio Chama between Medenales and Abiquiu where elk can be seen crossing as they feed along the shore. Sierra Negra stands in the background.

Eliot Hodgkin 1905-1987 was an English painter, best known for his highly detailed still lifes executed either in tempera or oil. He described his vision as
"In so far as I have any conscious purpose, it is to show the beauty of natural objects which are normally thought uninteresting or even unattractive: such things as Brussels sprouts, turnips, onions, pebbles and flints, bulbs, dead leaves, bleached vertebrae, an old boot cast up by the tide...... For myself, if I must put it into words, I try to look at quite simple things as though I were seeing them for the first time and as though no one had ever painted them before."
Three pears in a paper bag 1962