Author: hmelton

Tonight we attended the Friends of the Bosque Dinner. The highlight for me was the photo exhibition. Mary Ann had entered the competition and won several places. The prizes were nice but what I enjoyed the most was the people. After the banquet, they announced the winners and people filed in to the room where… Continue reading Watching the Watchers

I went on a bus tour to visit the Trinity site today. This is the location where the first ever atomic explosion occurred. It was a plutonium bomb set off in a 100 foot tower just before dawn on July 16, 1945. The Atomic Age began and the world changed. My father was on a… Continue reading A Flash in a Pan

Mary Ann’s life as a nature photographer is a constant battle for disk space. On a good day, she’ll shoot several gigabytes of photos. It’s a rare day when she only uses one of her 1GB flash cards. This trip is two weeks of rich photo opportunity for her. So her laptop hard drive fills… Continue reading Making Space