JÖRG STAEGER / Studio Arroyo Hondo / <
JÖRG STAEGER / Studio Arroyo Hondo / <
Arroyo Hondo Mesa
Near Taos / New Mexico / USA
Elevation: 7.000 ft / 2.100 m
Close to the Rio Grande Gorge
From Johnny Cash's journal dated June, 1970 Taos, NM
We drove from Santa Fe to Taos
The black, table top mountains
Climbed up like stair steps
Towards Taos
The Rio Grande ran beside the road
Then we topped a last hill,
And on the plateau
The great beautiful plateau
Stretched to our left a hundred mile
The Rio Grande, a million years ago
Cut a deep wide awesome gorge
Across the plateau
Proud, peaceful mountains
Look down on Taos,
Proud, peaceful happy people
Breathe the clean Taos air
The only thing disturbing the countryside
Were giant dust-devils
And they're a thing of beauty
Upon our return from Taos
Someone had the nerve to remark,
"Taos is overrun with hippies, isn't it?"
If that's all you saw at Taos,
You've got no business going there.
© 2012 Jörg Staeger