Last Year’s Photos Click either image for much larger (and prettier) versions. Photos taken with iPhone 5s, Sunday, March 23, 2014. Looking upriver from about a mile north of Alameda. It’s called the Río Bravo del Norte in Mexico, but Rio Grande seems better to fit the usually placid river as it flows through Albuquerque. Not sure what the x-shaped vegetation is in our “we must preserve the natural Bosque” but they haven’t bloomed at all yet.