new mexico

I was thinking about all the creatures I saw when I lived in Alamogordo. New Mexico. I would bring in scorpions on my mop. Horny toads were walking around the yard. You could see coyotes at night on the road to the base. One time I saw a gila monster (a venomous lizard native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico).

A Gila Monster - a venomous lizard native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.

Probably the most seen around the base were tarantulas. They were everywhere. Eddie had them in the shop he worked, on the sidewalk walking up to the building. Kids on the base would bring them home to show their mothers. I am sure there were many others, but those were the main ones down in the valley. Up in the mountains around Cloudcroft, New Mexico were big deer, lots of shunks, rabbits.

Cloudcroft in the summer