Saturday, March 10, 2012 - City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM
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Emory Oak, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 8, 2012
Two oaks
Two kinds of oak trees grow here - Emory oaks and the smaller gray oaks.
It snows here too - got a few flurries this cold overcast morning.
Night camp
Site 4 Cygnus - City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM
- Verizon cell phone service - fairly good signal - best on west side of the park
- Verizon EVDO service - faster than many places I've camped
- Go to City of Rocks State Park website
- Locate City of Rocks 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.