A little walking rain, aka virga, over the upper middle Rio Grande. The river looks full from releases upstream.
A little walking rain, aka virga, over the upper middle Rio Grande. The river looks full from releases upstream.
Cowboy2 has remained quiet and polite since arriving here in early December but he’s determined when it comes to meal times.
Because of wartime secrecy, the Santa Fe New Mexican could not report on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos until atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in August 1945. The atomic bomb developed at Los Alamos was tested at White Sands on July 16, 1945. You can read an excellent account of the Manhattan Project …
Microbursts from fleeting early summer storms blasted us with 55 mph gusts. Cowboy and I were feeling low. I took refuge in Longmire, Las Vegas and the Valles Caldera, cool trucks on the screen and Cowboy by my side. “Transcendental Blues” plays in the opening scenes.
And I have retired from the water board, mostly tired of my own impatience.
Playing it safe at Walgreens. Treatment options at Walgreens. Belshaw (once Arnholz) at Under Charlie’s Covers. Moon over huevos rancheros. Cranes gettin’ their kicks over old 66.
Why I prefer the Navajo reference walking rain to the Latin word virga. Looking west down the Las Huertas Creek drainage to the Rio Grande and over the great river to the volcanic plug Cabezon, Santa Ana Mesa at the end of the Pajarito Plateau, up the east fork of the Jemez River and to …
This is likely to change by tonight or overnight but it’s such a great (click here) interactive map I wanted to post it now. Here’s the link to the interactive map again. You can expand or shrink the detail. Plus it shows the two fires within my views, at least smoke plume-wise, in the same …