Sunday, November 20, 2011 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alomogordo NM
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Dog Canyon Afternoon, Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM, November 20, 2011
When will I learn?
I went out in the late afternoon with the iPhone 4 to see what pictures I might get in the late day light against Dog Canyon and the mountains behind the park. I didn't get anything worth the effort I'm afraid. I never have.
Morning is better facing west across the Tullarosa Basin into a background not cluttered by the fine desert detail of the nearby mountainside to the east. That fine detail doesn't photograph well, especially with the phone.
See what I mean?
Night camp
Site 6 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - very good signal and access speed ( I have to qualify this - during my January 2008 visit the signal and access speed was excellent - in January 2009 it was practically non-existent during the day and slow at night with unpredictable short periods of excellent access)
- Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park website
- Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park on my Nightcamps map
- Check the weather here
We Are Clearly a Species Worth Saving
Our world is entering a time of profound and perhaps catastrophic change. My hope is that by getting people to care about and learn about what is in their backyard, they can be made to realize that while it seems like we are destroying the planet in out greed and excess, what we are really destroying is ourselves. The planet and life in general has dealt with catastrophe many times before. Cataclysm on Earth is a creative time and evolution can handle it. Culture is much more fragile and we as individuals are more fragile still. I think that it is time for people to come to terms with the fact that our own behaviors put humanity at risk. While people have always done atrocious things, I believe that we are a species capable of beautiful, amazing and important things as well and we are clearly a species worth saving.
Jon Piasecki