I like watching the sunset from a spot about 5 miles south of Madrid where you can see forever. It’s beautiful and well worth watching if you can time your trip well.
The favorite part of my drive was seeing the mountains in the distance and the clouds seemed as if they were sitting right on top,almost as if you could reach up and touch them if you were on top of the mountain. I think the scenery is both relaxing and breathtaking.
The open plains of the Jarrott Ranch (now Hughes) with the mating pair of Swainson’s hawks sitting on the electric poles about a mile apart from each other and later in the summer 2 or 3 smaller offspring sitting about half a mile apart from them. Then as you go down the hill to the San Marcos Arroyo by the Pueblo and then up the hill and around the corner and you come down the hills past the old catfish pond and see the Garden of the Gods. The one solitary figure looks like a bandito with a hat looking up with a face smooched by age.
