Kenneth Waller wrote:
>>In 1985 it was a narrow stretch with a double yellow line almost the >>entire length of it (a section of rt 260, I think) and few places to >>stop - a stark lava land scape . >> >> > >It still is. I was there a few years ago. > and so it will probably remain. >>Essentially back in the day it was the same... 60 miles out there ain't >>nothin. >> >> > >My point in mentioning it is that the bomb site is in not in the >National Monument. > > >Kenneth Waller > Right - got it. ann > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "ann sanfedele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: PESO - New Mexico Sun > > > > >>Essentially back in the day it was the same... 60 miles out there ain't >>nothin. >> >>When I spent a summer in stock back in 1964 in a little town called >>Portales, they >>were, distressingly, selling postcards of the bomb going off above the >>white sands. >>the monument is a tiny corner of the block of lthat land, relatively >>speaking. >> >>The cover of Sing Language was taken at White Sands - around dusk, after >>a rare rain. >> >>The X marks the Trinity spot is noted along a lonsesome road between a >>pathetic little town >>called Carrizozo on the east and San Antonio/Soccoro on the west - near >>the Bosque del Apache >>refuge. >> >>In 1985 it was a narrow stretch with a double yellow line almost the >>entire length of it (a section of >>rt 260, I think) and few places to stop - a stark lava land scape . >> >>I stayed overnight in Carrizozo which was reallly just a motel and a >>Dairy queen (or the like) >>at that point and two guys in a pick up drove up with a diamondback >>rattler in the back - >>they had laid it out on the tail gate with its head chopped off... it >>was about 6 feet long. >> >>No way I could avoid these guys. They were puffed up and proud. I >>tried to spin my reaction >>around to curiosity from disgust and asked if they were going to eat it, >>or make belts from the >>hide. Nope they just killed it for the trophy value. >> >>Sorry, I got carried away here - but my memory of that are sure is vivid >>in my mind still. >> >>ann >> >> >> >>Kenneth Waller wrote: >> >> >> >>>Actually from what I recall, the A bomb test site, while in the White >>>Sands >>>Missile range, is quite a distance (~60 miles) north of White Sands >>>National >>>Monument. At a place known as the Trinity Site. >>>The site is closed to the public most of the year but is opened once a >>>year >>>for visitation. >>> >>>Kenneth Waller >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "ann sanfedele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>Subject: Re: PESO - New Mexico Sun >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Trite visually or politically? >>>> >>>>(for those who don't know -- that's where they tested the atom bomb) >>>> >>>>kinda scary, methinks -- >>>> >>>>ann >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>A little better than New Mexico Moon, but probably a little more trite >>>>>too. >>>>> >>>>>Taken not long before the other, at sunset. Pretty much what I've done >>>>>with >>>>>this one is to use lighten shadows on the foreground. Now I just have to >>>>>figure >>>>>out how to fix up the moon one better. >>>>> >>>>>Taken at White Sands, New Mexico. >>>>> >>>>>http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/newsun.htm >>>>> >>>>>Comments welcome. >>>>> >>>>>Marnie aka Doe :-) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>-- >>>>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>[email protected] >>>>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
