Persistence Of Winter
Category: landscapes
Drive-By Skies
When I walked out of a store at sunset, the sky was wild over the Sandias. On my way home the sky was very distracting. I stopped several times facing icy winds, crossing busy streets, and getting stickers in my socks to photograph the quickly changing wild sky.
Mixed Bag Bosque
Dawn
Shey’s Tree. Cindy’s Santa Cynthia Tree. Christine’s Tree on the right.
Contrails, Stripes, Cool Colors
Cranes in a fly-by. The cranes started flying over at high altitude last week.
We haven’t seen the Tangle Heart Tree in a while.
Riding The Storm Out
Dawn
Afternoon storm
Riding the storm out
Moon vortex
Dusk
Another Old School
White Oaks Schoolhouse was built in 1895. It’s only open on weekends, so I did not get to go inside. White Oaks, New Mexico is 17 miles northeast of Carrizozo, New Mexico. The White Oaks webpage is at http://whiteoaksnm.com/index.html. There is also a wiki on White Oaks, NM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Oaks%2C_New_Mexico.
It has a three-hole outhouse.
A safe from the old post office and bile of mystery metal. Although there is an old tricycle on the concrete slab.
View from the west side of the school.
The south side of the school.
The east side of the school.
You Are Worth More Than!
Another example of Farm and Ranch Graffiti in the middle of nowhere.
Tank Art
Graffiti on water tanks on NM Highway 380 between San Antonio and Carrizozo.
Little Red Schoolhouse On The Prairie
Three Rivers School 1904 on NM Highway 54 between Carrizozo and Tularosa. I don’t know anything about this building other than it sits behind the Three Rivers Trading Post, it’s old, it’s red, and where it is.
The above satellite map shows the location of Three Rivers School. The school and the trading post are 24 miles south of Carrizozo and 18 miles north of Tularosa. The border of the White Sands Missle Range is about a mile west of NM Highway 54 at Three Rivers. The south end of the Valley of Fires lava flow is the black area west of the Three Rivers. East of Three Rivers is Sierra Blanca Peak which is 11,981 ft (3,652 m) high. The Trinity Test Site where the first nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945 is north and west of Three Rivers.
Farm & Ranch Graffiti
It’s strange to find graffiti in the middle of nowhere.
Off Center & Not Even 