New Mexico
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Yesterday was a bad day for dust over most of this part of New Mexico. Here’s what sunset looked like at White Sands National Monument:
The sun dropping below the crest of a dune:
Tags: Sunset at White Sands, Misc Images, Weather
Monday, March 9th, 2009
The clouds whorled over the mountains. The air was gelatinous, it was so packed with moisture. The desert fragrances were a blast of consonance and dissonance.
A few drops…
And a few drops…
And not much more.
A tenth, less than two tenths, but still the mountains devoured it.
Tags: Las Cruces, Organ Mountains
Saturday, March 7th, 2009
I SAW with open eyes
Singing birds sweet
Sold in the shops
For people to eat,
Sold in the shops of
Stupidity Street.
I saw in vision
The worm in the wheat,
And in the shops nothing
For people to eat;
Nothing for sale in
Stupidity Street.
- Ralph Hodgson, 1917
Tags: Ralph Hodgson, poems, literature
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Four photos of the Organ Mountains taken today.
Compare this to how green the mountains were 5 months ago.
Tags: Las Cruces, Organ Mountains, Windmill
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Somehow the driver of this car managed to crash into this fence in mid-day on a 35-mile an hour city street, just missing on-coming traffic. According to people at the scene, he immediately jumped out of the car carrying two paper bags and ran off.
A blow up of the interior of the car reveals how he accomplished this:
Tags: Automobiles, Car Crashes,
