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
On Food and Freedom
Here I've clipped a few paragraphs from the excellent talk Return to Slavery: Will you be eating China's dust for breakfast? by Billie Best, Executive Director, Regional Farm and Food Project given on April 19, 2006 to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ecologic Club - Troy, New York, On the occasion of Ecologic Club launching a campaign to get more local foods into their campus food system.