“Acequias evolved over 10,000 years in the deserts of the Middle East and were introduced into southern Spain by the Moors. Later, Spanish colonizers introduced acequias to the American Southwest, long before the land was claimed by the United States. Acequia is the irrigation conveyance system, the canal, all the infrastructure that delivers water from the river, the Rio Grande, to the fields. But acequia is also a way of life, a presence. Acequia defines our West in ways that I can hardly explain.”
~Leeanna T. Torres~
Thanks so much for commenting on my photo of the acequia in autumn. I imagine if we were to go back that many leaves will have fallen because we've had below freezing temperatures since I took this photo.