Thursday, December 23, 2010 - Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM
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Organ Mountains from Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM, January 22, 2009
Where have I gone?
Nowhere - I'm still here at Leasburg Dam State Park on my favorite site. this site has no electric hookups so I've been struggling with power management. The two solar panels I'm using to supply power are having a hard time keeping up at this time of year and I'm not using my laptop, by far my largest power hog, a great deal. So I haven't been editing pictures and by extension haven't been updating these pages. All is well and I'll get back here soon, once I get a couple of projects behind me. Really. I will {grin}.
It's a dusty sunrise
Beautiful. There's just enough dust in the air and a few wispy clouds this morning to create the illumination you see in that old pic above. Wow! Maybe I should have gotten out a bit before the sun popped over the mountains to take a few shots. Ah well...
Night camp
Site 9 - Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal
- Go to Leasburg Dam State Park website
- Locate Leasburg Dam State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Alex Can Spell
Not very long ago, Dr. Pepperberg began trying to teach Alex and another gray parrot, Griffin, to sound out phonemes, which are the sounds that letters and letter combinations represent. English has forty phonemes altogether. She and her colleagues wanted to see if the birds understood that words are made out of letters that could be recombined to make other words, so they started training the birds with magnetic refrigerator letters.