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stars + a summer storm
I really do feel bad for people who live in a place where their views are obscured by trees and hills or mountains, because they miss out on the opportunity to sit outside in the evening and watch thunderstorms march across the Plains.
The other night I was at my place out in the country and spent a few delightful hours watching storms.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 7.20.2024
tunas
After a fantastic bloom, the cactus flowers turn into tunas, which can be green, red, wine-red, or orange. They’re commonly eaten in Mexico and Mediterranean regions, and they can also be made into aguas fresas.
Fun fact: I’ve lived in Texas almost my whole life and the only place I’ve eaten them is in Sicily, where they were served at breakfast. And they were tastier than you might think.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 7.19.2024
deck/chairs
An arc of chairs, facing north toward the view. And the storms, when they come.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 7.19.2024
yes, that oppenheimer
109 East Palace Street – this very building – played a role in the top secret stuff that was going on up the hill in Los Alamos.
Here’s what Atlas Obscura has to say about it:
WHEN YOU NEED TO BE dropped off at a top-secret research facility that does not exist, what address do you give the driver? For two decades, that address was 109 East Palace in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Located a few blocks from Santa Fe’s city center, the unremarkable building served as the first stop for Richard Feynman, Enrico Fermi, Robert Oppenheimer, and innumerable other scientists working on the top-secret Manhattan Project in nearby Los Alamos. Dozens of scientists, technicians, and other workers would arrive each day to be ferried up to “the Hill” where work on the atomic bomb (and possibly other secret science projects) actually took place.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 6.29.2024
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