A moment in time. I miss her.
It speaks for itself. You livejournal folks, I swear, there is a full size version, but ya gotta click over to my site first for the stinkin’ link to work. Sorry, I’ll fix this by and by.
In other news, no comments on the short story. Bah. I’m gonna write them anyway, but not illicit feedback, I think. Better for my sanity, hah.
Bill Ellis’ CD showed up unexpectedly in the mail today. I didn’t think I would see it for a few days. He gave me permission to post some of his photos online, so here they are for your viewing pleasure.
I have tried to add some information into the summaries of each photo as to what is going on.
Enjoy!
This last weekend was the annual hibernating bat count. A little background: the caving club, or ‘grotto’ as they are know, that I am a member of (and also secretary for), has been volunteering to count hibernating bats for better than 15 years for the state of New Mexico. There are about 8 caves in NM that are on BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land that are listed as ‘hibernaculum’ for bats, and thus, closed for caving from November through March. As such, the BLM has had an ongoing project to count the number of hibernating bats each year to determine bat populations, locations, and etc. We do this at the end of January each year so as to get a good count near the end of the hibernation, but only every other year for each cave, that is, we alternate caves each year. Please note that these caves are OFF LIMITS during the hibernating period, the only way we can go in is by having a small group on a very special permit and by having a volunteer agreement in place to do this work.
That having been said, this year’s count went rather well. We did counts in two caves, Torgac and Fort Stanton. It was, as always, an adventure (but not like last year!). Read on for the whole story.
A 6AM post! Maybe you will luck out and it will be less moody than yesterdays.
Regardless, I was reminded of a little story from the summer that suddenly made me laugh and perhaps you will to. So, read on.