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The boy became angry because he
could not climb through the closed window (and his sisters refused to
open it for him). The boy beat on the window with his hammer. The window
broke. The boy was punished. |
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This is another picture of the window that the boy broke. |
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This picture may look a bit fuzzy.
This is because I took this picture through a diffraction grating.
Diffraction gratings are neat things used in science experiments.
Notice the little ranbows? Those are caused by the diffration grating
(which acts sort of like a prism). |
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This picture better shows what diffration gratings do. |
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These are hair doo-dads that Ne--ie created. Hopefully, the girls will not lose them! |
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I was at the ranch, all by myself
(to attend the annual meeting, which I ended up missing), from late at
night on the evening of June 14th, through early moring on June 17th. I
had a great time! On the first morning that I was there (June 15), I
hiked five miles straight east from our cabin (coming within about 5.5
miles of New Mexico), and then, of necessity, five miles back to the
cabin. One of the first things that I found that was worthy of a
picture was this little "lake" (mud puddle, really). The cows sure
seemed to like it. |
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This was such a pretty lake, that I had to take another picture of it. |
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I must hve been pretty impressed with this lake. |
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This is an old cabin that I found on my hike. My guess is that this is an old cowboy bunkhouse. |
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This picture and the next show why
I hiked five miles East. According to my geology maps, the geology
changes a bit beginning here. The rocks shown are sandstone. All of the
rock outcroppings near my place are limestone. |
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More rocks. Nice rocks, huh? |
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These holes in the sandstone are
caused, I believe, by a process called "differential erosion" (this is
also sometimes called "honeycomb erosion"). |
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This, and the next three pictures
are of a small calf that allowed me to get really close. I took the
pictures as I slowly approached, so that when the calf finally did
bolt, I'd have as many pictures as possible. |
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Here, the calf is standing next to a barb wire fence. This shows how tall the calf was when I took this shot. |
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When I should have been at the
meeing, I instead traveled to an incredible place in New Mexico called
El Morro. This pool, which has been a reliable source of water for the
past 1000 years (at least), has attacted all sorts of people, who have
carved all sorts of things into the sandstone (many dated from the
1600s). El Morro is now a National Monument. |
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Here is a picture of the same pool, with a better (but still very inadequate) view of the surrounding cliffs. |
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Looky! An inscription! |
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This inscription, written in spanish, is dated August 5, 1629. Here is the translation of this, the only peom, at El Morro: Here arrived the Senor and Governor Don Francisco Manuel de Silva Nieto Whose indubitable arm and valor Have overcome the impossible With the wagons of the King our Lord A thing which he alone put into this effect August 5, 1629 that one may well to Zuni pass and carry the faith. |
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I like to take pictures of signs, to show where I have been. Here is a sign at El Morro. |