Buena Vista

[ bwe-nah vees-tah ]

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noun

a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: American victory in battle (1847) during the Mexican War.

Buena Vista

/ ˈbwena ˈvista /

a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)

How well I recall a rainy afternoon during my stay at Buena Vista!

The foregoing is what my landlord told me one morning at Buena Vista.

Thence he fell back to a mountain gorge opposite Buena Vista.

At Buena Vista, where these birds are superabundant, their morning concerts were positively painful.

Or was the Buena Vista bird the common song-sparrow which had gone entirely beyond its Colorado range?

April 18, 2024petrichor

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