Shallow Thoughts : tags : New Mexico
Akkana's Musings on Open Source Computing and Technology, Science, and Nature.
Wed, 01 Oct 2025
On a recent bike ride up at the East Fork trail, Dave had to go back
to the car to get something he'd forgotten, leaving me guarding his pack.
It turned out that was a blessing in disguise. While I waited, looking
up at the spectacular backlit sky high above the ponderosas, I saw
hundreds of little fluff pieces floating by, highlighted and glowing
from the sun behind them. Occasionally, I'd see long filaments drift
past: I assume they were strands of spider web, perhaps with tiny baby
spiders attached, invisible at that distance.
I tried to capture them on phone video, but unsurprisingly,
the video wasn't good enough to capture them, and neither were the
still photos.
Tags: hiking, mtb, bike, nature, New Mexico
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Fri, 08 Jul 2022
New Mexicans are used to people thinking we're not part of the US.
Every New Mexican has stories, like trying to mail-order
something and being told "We don't ship outside the US".
I had a little spare time and decided I'd follow a tutorial that's been
on my to-do list for a while:
Creating Beautiful River Maps with Python.
It combines river watercourse data from
gaia.geosci.unc.edu
with watershed boundaries from the
HydroSheds
project using Python and GeoPandas, making a map that is,
as promised in the title, beautiful.
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Tags: mapping, GIS, New Mexico, humor
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Tue, 29 Sep 2020
Dave was browsing through satellite imagery and noticed what looked
like an old bridge across the Rio Grande just north of Española,
near the Ohkay Owingeh pueblo.
In the Days of COVID, one cure for the stir-crazies is to get in the
car and go for a drive. So we ventured forth to check out this bridge.
Sure enough, just west of where County Road 56A crosses the Rio,
there's a little stub of a dead-end road called Yunque that leads
to a footbridge.
The name Yunque sounded vaguely familiar, but neither of us could pin
down why.
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Tags: history, New Mexico
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