DitchOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I’m stretching the point a bit, but standing at the edge of an alfalfa field in Albuquerque’s South Valley this afternoon, I was reminded of Bruce Smith’s description in last Friday’s Science of the co-evolution of humans, dogs and the bottle gourd: In Asia, for example, the domestication of two utilitarian …
Japanese Garden Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. On the bike ride today, I spied the new Japanese Garden, under construction at the botanical gardens. I’m not sure about the opening date, but if you can’t wait, walk (ride?) up the bike trail north of Central a little less than half a mile and peek through the …
reading: Preparing for a talk at UNM in a couple of weeks, I’m rereading a couple of old sciency favorites: Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions and The Golem, by Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch. paper of the day: Abrupt changes in rainfall during the twentieth century, by some UW-Madison folks, offering a new and …
Apropos of nothing except that I’m fascinated by the interplay between agriculture and urbanization in the West, I ran across this data this evening in the Census of Agriculture (and if I blog it here, I can Google it and find it later): Irrigated agricultural acreage in Bernalillo County (that’s the county in which Albuquerque …
Of possible interest to New Mexicans, on the price of uranium.
Parrot tulipOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The garden’s going all nutso pretty all of a sudden, and Lissa got some nice pictures for me this afternoon, that we might share with y’all. The parrot tulips are the showiest of all right now. Meanwhile, the grape hyacinth are everywhere right now – sprinkled through our big iris …
One of the great little New Mexico films, Tony DellaFlora’s High Strange New Mexico, is now available on line. (Hat tip The Fix.)
White Iris Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The little miniature white iris in our front yard started blooming this week.
Rio Grande at Alameda Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. We’ve had a burst of warm weather over the last two weeks, and you can see it in the river. Up at Alameda, it’s running at about 1,700 cubic feet per second (cfs) well above the average of 1,100 for this time of year. I realize for …
I don’t eat much sugar, so dessert is a bit of a problem. But the Village Inn, god bless its strangely anarchic cultural heart, has sugar free apple pie most nights. As a result, pie is a common family outing. Lissa’s not terribly fond of the Village Inn, but Nora, The Boy and I are …