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
