Saturday, May 5, 2012 - Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM
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Anticipation, Moonrise, Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM, May 5, 2012
Biggy
This was the biggy of the year, the annual full moon when the moon is closest to the earth. I took a bunch of pictures of the moon rising over the cliffs east of the Rio Grande here at the park. By moving around, side to side and forward and back, I was able to make this moonrise last and last, a good half hour. With some luck I got a few interesting enough to develop into a series. We shall see.
Night camp
Riverside - Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM
- Verizon cell phone and broadband service - fair signal if a bit slow
- Go to Caballo Lake State Park website
- Locate Caballo Lake State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Sell Them Down the River
Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...