Rio Bravo

The Rio Grande at Albuquerque has retreated back into its normal channels. 

The high water lasted right through the Spring and then diminished quite rapidly over the course of a week.  Enough water was probably left behind the dams above Albuquerque to make it though the Summer without exposing a dry bed as was the case last year.

USGS

The trails beside the river are mostly dry now, but they are narrowed by the exuberant growth of the riverside vegetation, giving the bosque the appearance of a tropical jungle.  There are acres of flowering yerba mansa.

Last summer, there was hardly a mosquito to be seen beside the river, but now clouds of them make it challenging to stop long enough to snap a photo.