Saturday, April 24, 2010 - Hidden Valley RV Park, Tijeras NM
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Dawn, Hidden Valley RV Park, Tijeras NM, April 24, 2010
Bah! - I was out too early this morning and besides, I found myself disconcerted by the trees and came back with just a few pictures - all lousy. I haven't had to figure trees into my picture taking for a long time.
What a mess this website is
You've likely noticed I've been messing around with the design of this site the last few days. As my photography has come along I've been trying to think up ways to integrate more of it in this site and I was finally got the gumption to tackle what I knew would be a big project. Yea gads - I knew it would be a big undertaking to figure a way forward and I was right. Everywhere I look I find something I'm unhappy with and a technical issue to resolve. I think I have the bones in place now, finally - most of them at least - and can begin to flesh out the details and maybe, finally, begin to integrate more pictures into the pages.
Night camp
Site 68 - Hidden Valley RV Park, Tijeras NM
- This is an older, 100 site, dirt pad, full hookup, RV park on a wooded hillside. The sites are a little small and close together by today's standards but are quite serviceable, quiet and clean.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here with a strong signal.
- Locate Hidden Valley RV Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Disaster and the Failure of Authority
Disasters are almost by definition about the failure of authority, in part because the powers that be are supposed to protect us from them, in part also because the thousand dispersed needs of a disaster overwhelm even the best governments, and because the government version of governing often arrives at the point of a gun. But the authorities don't usually fail so spectacularly. Failure at this level requires sustained effort. The deepening of the divide between the haves and have nots, the stripping away of social services, the defunding of the infrastructure, mean that this disaster—not of weather but of policy—has been more or less what was intended to happen, if not so starkly in plain sight.
The Uses of Disaster Rebecca Solnit, Harpers.org, September 9, 2005