> 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. > 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 ----- 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 >>>PDML@pdml.net >>>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
