Tag Archives: White Sands
More photos from White Sands National Monument in the fall
by cheri block That’s all for now.
White Sands, New Mexico
by cheri block White Sands New Mexico (between Las Cruces and Alamogordo) Temperature (perfect for the high desert) 80 degrees Sentimentality (barometric pressure 100 degrees) Judge Blah and I are spending time in the high desert of beautiful southern New … Continue reading
St. John’s Recap
by cheri block sabraw Before I left Santa Fe last weekend, I stopped by a real camera shop (as opposed to the Best Buy experience) to have my lenses air cleaned and to buy a new filter. The light is … Continue reading
Murder at the Monument (4) Everything you’ve wanted to know about a Viking Missile but were afraid to ask.
Note: This is the 4th in a series of fictional pieces for the book I am writing/researching. This Viking 10 missile, erect in a vertical thrust, some 20,000 pounds of it, propelled by a delicious union of liquid oxygen and … Continue reading
The Only Place Success Comes before Work is in the Dictionary
My first vivid childhood memories took place in what the famous American poet T.S. Eliot would have called, The Wasteland. That barren tundra, teeming with lizards, snakes, and scorpions, is New Mexico, more specifically, White Sands Proving Ground in Las … Continue reading
Exercise in description (3) Soaptree Yucca
This is the third of three posts that concern the story I am writing for my book. If you want to follow it, go back and read Murder at the Monument (1) and (2). Thanks! In the late spring, the … Continue reading
Murder at the Monument (2) Ellen Stern
His wife, Ellie, had packed that lunch the night before, as she grudgingly had done for the five years her husband had worked for the government. The dryness of their New Mexican environment—their home, their workplaces, their relationship—had begun to … Continue reading
Murder at the Monument (1) Edward Stern
The desert floor on a hot day seems to breathe, as if the earth’s lungs labor under the pressure of the heat; fine dirt and smooth rocks expand and contract in the slow rhythm of another world’s music. Winds shift … Continue reading
