Made a trip down to the White Sands Missile Range over the weekend.
The Space History Museum in Alamogordo was one of my stops and I noticed the above scene from one of the upper floors of the parking lot down below.
The parking symbols especially make me smile.
Turtles on the left….really slow.
Rocket on the right…really fast!
a photogram of the Moon and some things from the yard
I’m driving back up to this place tomorrow….
Maybe I blogged this photo before??? Oh well, my D70 is resting since both batteries are dead-plus I’m gearing up for the Leonid meteor shower next week and cleaning lenses and digging out a couple of film cameras for it. Namely an old F2 and the K1000.
Don’t know if I’ll catch any with the cameras- so far my track record is terrible. My camera is NEVER aimed where a meteor zips by so this year I’m going to set three cameras up.
It was the Leonid storm of 2001 that was partly to blame for our move to New Mexico. We came here for the Leonids, and fell in love with this place. Dreams do come true.
I guess she wanted to make sure the forms for the observatory were up to code. We often see coyotes roaming through the yard, but this young lady was very bold and spent quite some time cruising the yard.
Coyotes here are also very healthy looking. Some are about the size of German Shepherds and are well fed on bunnies, ground squirrels and whatever else they can catch. This one was beautiful!
Sorry about the picture quality, I was shooting through the kitchen window while she made her rounds. You can see the snow is mostly gone now….it has been very windy!
with this little guy- found him near where the telescope was set up early in the afternoon.
He was about the size of a quarter, and just about the cutest little critter I’ve seen in the desert. When I was a kid I used to see them more often, but now not so much.