More views of the White Sands

Just Awesome!!

A few four legged critters we saw that day

This "belle" was accompanied by a less friendly looking black bull..

He didn't offer to pose, so I didn't take his picture..

They were wandering around, free, on the observatory grounds.

This is a few of the flock of wild turkeys we spied.. You must look closely

to NOT confuse them with the trees stumps!!

Here, I zoomed in for a better look!

Then just after we left the turkeys to their business a

deer ran across in front of us, and hid nicely in the shadows of the trees,

It was difficult getting a picture of him, but I did manage!!

Can you see him?? Straight back BETWEEN the two cut off stumps.

If you click on the picture to make it bigger, you'll see him right away.

As we drove off two more bounded into the forest, but I was too slow to get the three of them;

they quiclky dissappeared.

Sacramento Peak Observatory

The John W. Evans Solar Facility,

Named in honor of the first director(1952-1975) of the

Sacramento Peak Observatory ,

who transformed a remote mountain-top observatory into a

world-renowned center for solar astronomy.

As you can see a good deal of this telescope is underground!!

It's very impressive. Too much for me to explain...

but very impressive!!

White Sands seen in the distance

Cozy Mountain Homes

Lots of open pasture space and blue sky.
Bet they get pretty snowed in in the winter though!!

More golden aspens

Oaks and Aspens

I have MANY pictures of the New Mexico fall colors, too..
I'll try not to bore you...
What we saw mostly on our trip to Cloudcroft were the yellow and browns of the oaks and aspens!

A visit to the Sacramento Mountains

It was a beautiful day, Oct. 12th. It was 85°F in town and 49°F in Cloudcroft..
The canyons and mountains are very similar in "paysage",

to the foothills of the

Grand Atlas mountains that we have in Agadir.

The White Sands National Park in the distance.

OH! A mountain critter!!

Smile, Ron!

Nothing like New Mexico

Fluffy white clouds and wide open spaces!!
Welcome to New Mexico!

These pictures are moving pictures, (that is the car was moving!!) taken from the front seat of Ron's car
as we traveled from El Paso to Alamogordo. Oct. 11, 2009.

Happy 2010

As the New Year is here, and the rush of the Christmas Holidays over,
I'll try to get back to some blogging!
We wish you all the very BEST in 2010...
We're convinced it's going to be a GREAT YEAR!!