Comments on: Volcano in evening light.

By: poochlover

poochlover — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:44:16 +0000

Middle school registration? You’ve got to be kidding! The last few days, I’ve felt like my life is flashing by in front of my eyes. Wasn’t Kate just 5??

By: basset

basset — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:21:52 +0000

well, yeah, Vince, but I used to take my camera every time I went with Curt in Sky 10 and didn’t get anything like THAT. lack of volcanoes in Kansas would be the first good reason, I guess.

By: Jenine

Jenine — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:11:28 +0000

It seems like a lot of No. NM people on here all of a sudden. I’ll stick my oar in too. I went to school in Los Alamos, 6th - 12th grades. I hope to retire to northern NM if I can figure out how to afford it. I have seen the Valle Grande in sun, snow and fog. It is unfailingly beautiful and I still fantasize about riding across it some autumn day.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:49:41 +0000

Our land in New Mexico is in Abiquiu, big OKeeffe country and that’s also where Pedernal and the Ghost Ranch are. I love the hikes at Ghost Ranch particularly the Chimney Rock one. I have a geologist friend in Abiquiu, I’ll ask him about Pederanal being a volcano, he’s never mentioned that before. We have 100 acres off of Sierra Negra, the finger mesas at the base, we back up to Carson National Forest. We love it. My husband is an architect and we’ve been designing our house for 5 or 6 years, keeps changing, but for the better so it’s a good thing we didn’t start building sooner.

By: vince

vince — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:30:37 +0000

Bassett,
To get those photos, I got lucky.
I was a TV reporter then and I was the one assigned most often to cover developments at the volcano.

Every time we flew up there in the news chopper I took my camera.

During the eruptive phase we had permission to fly into the restricted air space. (Boy did we do that carefully! You don’t ever want to fly into an ash cloud. Quick way to stop your engine.)

Only once were we up there close to sunset - and the light could not have been more perfect.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:27:59 +0000

Actually, Disciples of Christ, but polymorphously perverse . . . i mean, ecumenical. The campus pastor at the college church where the Lovely Wife and i met and married was Presby, hence our pilgrimages to the Chama Valley (and i still work with Presbys allatime, with the obligatory Calvin jokes).

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:26:55 +0000

As an ad for a fast-food joint, those BK tray-liners are probably inappropriate. As a funny piece of art, they’re pretty brilliant.

By: Gasman

Gasman — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:01:00 +0000

moe99,
I just viewed the Burger King ad. What the hell were they thinking? No wonder the onion is scared. Did you see the size of that pickle!

The creepiest part to me is that the magazines and newspaper depicted all have images of big pickle boobs. That seems way too Freudian for me. Maybe I’m just weirded out because I’m vegetarian. I’ll bet those tray liners will be collector’s items soon.

By: Gasman

Gasman — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:41:25 +0000

Deborah,
They are still deciding how to use the Valles for the public. Right now, there is very little access to the Preserve. Cows have run of the place through grazing leases, however. If you’ve got a Holstein suit, you could probably get in for free.

They do open it up for a few days at a time, for a few specific functions. They have a mountain bike ride through about 30 miles of the Preserve. They have had limited fishing in the stream. They’ve had cross country skiing and hiking as well. We have taken the wagon trip through the northwest portion of the Valles Grande. They filmed most of the movie “The Missing” in the Valles.

JTMO, I do believe that Perdernal is volcanic. Most of the Jemez Mountains and its northern big brothers the San Juans in Colorado are the legacy of tectonic activity. That explains all the hot springs throughout the area. If you’ve done work at Ghost Ranch, I’ll bet you’re Presbyterian. I’m an ordained elder and my wife and I are members at First Pres. in Santa Fe. I’m very familiar with some of O’Keefe’s works and I just did a gig at the O’Keefe Museum in conjunction with the Santa Fe Opera.

All in all, we’re pretty happy in NM. For a flaming liberal like me that grew up in the sphincter of conservatism - Ft. Wayne - and then lived in Texas (to continue the analogy, the large intestine of conservatism), it is refreshing to be somewhere I fit in politically. Although, Los Alamos - where we hang our hats - is the most Republican county in the state.

By: moe99

moe99 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:18:52 +0000

OT, but I am flabbergasted that Burger King would do this:

http://idea-sandbox.com/blog/2008/07/what-is-burger-king-thinking/