A blog primarily about southern New Mexico and the Tularosa Basin. Observations and moments that escape us on a normal day make it into the blog. Photographs of the truly unique landscape,including the towns of Alamogordo, La Luz, Cloudcroft, Tularosa, Ruidoso, High Rolls, Mountain Park, Weed, Pinon, Sacramento and other communities.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Alamogordo-Fat Cottonwood
Alamogordo means Fat Cottonwood in Spanish. They were prolific when I was younger, lining streets and in front yards. Slowly they have disappeared. A few are left in the parks, living touchstones and silent sintinels to the past.
Alamogordo means Fat Cottonwood in Spanish. They were prolific when I was younger, lining streets and in front yards. Slowly they have disappeared. A few are left in the parks, living touchstones and silent sintinels to the past.
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