Saturday, March 6, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM
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Farming the Rio Grande valley, San Antonio NM, February 25, 2010
Some time back I walked the few feet out to the stock fence at the edge of the park and shot this picture. This is what I see out the window over my desk, without the bit of easily overlooked clutter in between. We like it! There's a river running through that line of trees behind the farm - the Rio Grande River, lifeblood to the inhabitants of this valley for millennia.
Let's see if I can get caught up here
It's time to catch up here - it's been 10 days since I've added a page. I wandered off for a while for a change of pace from photography and to make some improvements in the Lazy Daze that have been bugging me for ages and to play with my leatherworking interests for a bit.
Night camp
Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM
- This is a basic, small Mom & Pop RV Park with full hookups.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here with a strong signal.
- Locate Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park on my Night Camps map
- Click for Google street view
- Check the weather in San Antonio NM
The Heliograph in the Apache Wars
"The mountains and the sun...were made his allies, the eyes of his command, and the carriers of swift messages. By a system of heliograph signals, communications were sent with almost incredible swiftness; in one instance a message traveled seven hundred miles in four hours. The messages, flashed by mirrors from peak to peak of the mountains, disheartened the Indians as they crept stealthily or rode swiftly through the valleys, assuring them that all their arts and craft had not availed to conceal their trails, that troops were pursuing them and others awaiting them. The telescopes of the Signal Corps, who garrisoned the rudely built but impregnable works on the mountains, permitted no movement by day, no cloud of dust even in the valleys below to escape attention. Little wonder that the Indians thought that the powers of the unseen world were confederated against them."