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Another bitterlake sunset

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:23:23 +0000

So this time, we went back with all the equipments we needed to observe birds, such as egg sandwitch, egg nog, and binocular. It was probably the best sunset of the year. Amazingly beautiful.

Bitter Lake Sunset

The air looked pink and more birds than last time. The bird we wanted to see was the sand hill craine. They are the one frying in V-shape. Very big beautiful gray bird.

sand hill craine

After observing the birds by drinking egg nog, we decided to drive the path around the park. And see what we found.

Porcupine!!

He sure did look pointy.

Unidentified flying object??

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:49:53 +0000

moon rising over Comanche hill

Jimmy is finally here in Roswell. He got here on 15th and since then I have been taking him around Roswell to show him the pretty spots. His first day here, we went to Bitter Lake wildlife refuge (7 miles away from the residency compound). It was just before the sunset, and the sky was turning into a pink orange and the moon was rising over Comanche Hill, which was definitely a Kodak moment.

We drove the path around Bitter Lake and parked the car to have a better look at evening sky and we found this thing. It was a very big shiny object, much bigger and brighter than star and moving slowly across the sky. First, it was bright white light and started to turn to orangish color. Definitely it was reflecting the sunlight. What was it??? A satellite? No it was too big and too close to the earth’s surface. A weather balloon?? It could be. UFO?? That would be really cool. Well, later we found out that it was a weather balloon flying over the Roswell sky. I still haven’t seen UFO yet here in Roswell but this was something close. Weather balloon, that’s what people always say, right?

weather balloon

Roswell

admin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:16:52 +0000

I have been in Roswell for past 7 months living in an artist in residence program. Life here is great, with no schedule and all the time I want for what I want to do. So I am trying to make as much art as possible but I am also enjoying doing things that I have not had a chance to do before. Recently, I have been baking bread ( we have a whole sourdough culture going around in this residency ), and cooking a lot of different things. Finally, I got New Mexican green chilies from a store. I got a half bushel and didn’t realize how much a half bushel is. A lot…. I have a pile of green chilies sitting in my freezer now. They are really good though.

One more thing in Roswell, we have the greatest sunsets ever here. When I got here in the end of January, it seemed like almost every day I saw really pretty ones, but now we are in the rainy season and I don’t get to see them as much I used to. But here is the photo of one of the pretty ones I saw a couple days ago.