PLACE
OUR COLLECTIVE AND PERSONAL ENVIRONMENT 2023Through the considerable efforts of the Landscape Team as well as individual initiatives in residents' areas, Sand River enjoys a visually beautiful and functionally cooler landscape in a time of an increasingly extreme climate. Additionally, the prominence of native bunch grasses support a permaculture drainage system by moderating water flow during rainfall to prevent erosion and flooding as well as to maximize water capture for the benefit of our living environment.
ECLIPSES 2023–2024"The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage, you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, the birds take back their language, the cliffs fissure and collapse, the air moves back from you like a wave and you can’t breathe. No, they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor, time after time. Climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming. We never belonged to you. You never found us. It was always the other way round."
— Margaret Atwood |
 Tsankawi petroglyph
If Place is where humans live in relationship with other forms of life—plants, trees, animals, the elements—Sand River's most immediate sphere is our community and all that lives within it. Next, is the natural, uncultivated world surrounding our cultivated landscape, and beyond that are other human neighborhoods and resources. Each is another concentric sphere beyond the last, ultimately encompassing Santa Fe, the mountains, our southwestern region, etc. The following links will take you to the various circles that make up Sand River's ripples in the Place where we live.
Chamisa blooming in Arroyo de los Piñones, Sand River's southern border
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