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 with an old Santa Fe-Albuquerque controversy. Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass at Walgreens. Jim Belshaw (once Arnholz) at Under Charlie’s Covers. Moon over huevos rancheros. 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 …
The Cerro Pelado fire in the Jemez Mountains, photographed from Placitas, spotting east on April 30. The fire started in what pundits called a big “wind event” on April 22 — Earth Day, by the way. It has burned into the 2011 Las Conchas burn scar but still threatens cabin clusters on several sides and …
The black-and-white broadside of a paint horse on a hillside at least a half-mile away drew me out of bed this morning. The news from the Sangre de Cristos and Jemez was not good after Earth Day wind, fire and dust violence, but we seemed to luck out near the Sandia mountain. The Calf Canyon …
I rose this morning to listen to the rain. It’s so rare. I went to sleep as the weather came in, soothed by the sound of the wind, knowing it brought a storm. I discovered on rising a little snow on the Sandias to the south, a little more on the Jemez to the north. …
dream ranch 