#White Sands Monument

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Sunset in White Sands National Park

New Mexico

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White Sands National Monument

By Michael McNerney

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ive had this in my drafts for about 200 years oopsies

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[rabbitcruiser]

The White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico has been officially designated as White Sands National Park on December 20, 2019.

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“The environment is the infrastructure of our communities. As a nation, as a civilization, it’s our obligation to create communities for our children that provide them with opportunities for dignity and good health. When we destroy nature, we diminish ourselves and impoverish our children. We ignore that at our own peril.” — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (2007) This image ‘Desert Plant Life‘ is…

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White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, 1964 (via Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Colour | AnOther)

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Best Places To Visit In New Mexico For Families

New Mexico offers a variety of family-friendly destinations that combine natural beauty, rich history, and cultural experiences. Here are some of the best places to visit in New Mexico with your family:

Albuquerque: Explore the vibrant city of Albuquerque and its array of family-friendly attractions. Visit the Albuquerque BioPark, which includes a zoo, aquarium, and botanical garden. Ride the Sandia Peak Tramway for panoramic views or take a hot air balloon ride over the city.

Santa Fe: Discover the charm of Santa Fe, the state capital. Explore the historic Plaza, visit the interactive Santa Fe Children's Museum, and learn about Native American art and culture at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Embark on an underground adventure at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Take a guided tour or explore the self-guided paths to witness the stunning limestone caves and unique rock formations.

White Sands National Park: Experience the otherworldly beauty of White Sands National Park. Let the kids sled down the gypsum dunes or enjoy a scenic picnic amidst the vast white landscape.

Taos Pueblo: Visit Taos Pueblo, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States. Learn about Native American culture, explore the adobe structures, and participate in traditional activities.

Bandelier National Monument: Discover the ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs at Bandelier National Monument. Take a hike through the canyons, learn about the ancestral Pueblo people, and have a picnic amidst the stunning scenery.

These family-friendly destinations in New Mexico offer a blend of natural wonders, cultural heritage, and educational experiences that will create lasting memories for your family.

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Book Review: The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico By Janet Farrell Brodie

Reviewed by KAY MATTHEWS On the afternoon of Sunday, July 16, 2023, the 78th anniversary of the Trinity bomb test in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico, an event called A World Without Nuclear Weapons, From Reflection to Action: An Interfaith Remembrance of the Trinity Test will present a dialogue on the dangers of the nuclear arms race at the Santa Maria de la Paz Center in Santa Fe. Archbishop of…

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[lockvogel]

White Sands, National Monument & Park

New Mexico

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Could you give any advice for "descriptive" writing of any scene or action scenes or mapping out the scenery (Mountains, forests, streets etc) - i believe this is a struggle for Non-English speaking writers due to lack of vast vocabulary.

Common Scenery Description Tips

Vocabulary is clearly an important part of description, but it doesn’t have to be a limit. The most important thing about description in fiction is picking the right details to mention:

How does the details add to the mood of the story? A mountain ridge will be dark, gray and foggy if the overall mood is meant to be mysterious/brooding. In contrast, a mountain can be brilliantly snow-capped, lush green and “smiling down” upon the character if they’re out for a light stroll.

How are the contrasts/complementary aspects being brought out?

Are you using the five senses? You can even combine the senses, ie. blue ringing of the church bells

(If you have the POV character) what 

Some other tips for setting description:

Use similes and metaphors. Creative figures of speech always get my attention as a reader. 

Mention story-specific elements. For example, “The sky was the shade of Zoes’ eyes” or “the mountains looked like a group of trolls sleeping on one another” 

Be concise. Today’s readers don’t want to read paragraphs and paragraphs about one landscape. Outline the larger elements in the scene, their location and general mood. Add some details, then move on. 

If the same location appears multiple times, differentiate the description little by little as you write, instead of trying to lay out one scene in too much detail at once. 

That said, here are some helpful words/phrases:

Forests/Mountains

Color: bone-white, phantom-white, hazy gray

Sound: rumbling, booming grumbling, bellowing clapping, trundling, growling, thundering

Shape: crinkled, crumpled, knotted, grizzled, rumpled, wrinkled, craggy, jagged, gnarled, rugose  

Action: sky-punching/stabbing/piercing/spearing, heaven-touching/kissing, snow-cloaked/hooded/wreathed/festooned

Sloping sides, sharp/rounded ridges, high point/peak/summit

Majestic, gargantuan humbling, vast, massive, titanic, towering, monumental, mighty, vast, humbling

Mountains having faces, etc. 

Seas

Color: blue-green, crystal-clear crystalline, emerald, frothy, hazy, glistening, pristine, turquoise

Size: boundless, abyssal, fathomless, unconquerable, vast, wondrous

Sound: billowing, blustering, bombastic

Action: boisterous, agitated, angry, biting, breaking, brazen. Churning, bubbling, changing, brooding, calm, convulsing, enticing erratic, fierce, tempestuous, turbulent, undulating

Alluring, blissful, betwitching, breezy, captivating, chaotic, chilly, elemental, disorienting

Deserts

Sight: A landscape of sand, flat, harsh sunlight, cacti, tumbleweeds, dust devils, cracked land, crumbing rock, sandstone, canyons, wind-worn rock formations, tracks, dead grasses, vibrant desert blooms (after rainfall), flash flooding, dry creek

Sounds: Wind (whistling, howling, piping, tearing, weaving, winding, gusting), birds cawing, flapping, squawking, the fluttering shift of feasting birds, screeching eagles, the sound of one’s own steps, heavy silence, baying wild dogs

Smell: Arid air, dust, one’s own sweat and body odor, dry baked earth, carrion

Touch: Torrid heat, sweat, cutting wind, cracked lips, freezing cold (night) hard packed ground, rocks, gritty sand, shivering, swiping away dirt and sweat, pain from split lips and dehydration, numbness in legs, heat/pain from sun stroke, clothes…

Taste: Grit, dust, dry mouth & tongue, warm flat canteen water, copper taste in mouth, bitter taste of insects for eating, stringy wild game (hares, rats) the tough saltiness of hardtack, biscuits or jerky, an insatiable thirst or hunger

Streets

Dusty, fume-filled, foul, sumptuous, broad, bucolic, decayed, mournful, seemingly endless, empty, unpaved, lifeless, dreadfully genteel, muddy, nondescript, residential/retail

Bleach, flimsy, silent, narrow, crooked, furrowed, smoggy, commonplace, tumbledown, treeless, shady

The blacktop streets absorb the spring sunshine as if intent upon sending heaven's warmth back through my soles.

The streets absorbed the emotions in the air, the city as the steady and reassuring mother.

The streets were a marriage of sounds, from bicycle wheels to chattering.

In the refreshing light of early daytime, the streets had the hues of artistic dreamtime, soft yet bold pastels.

Cobbled streets flowed as happy rivers in sunlight.

Parties

Some extra tips for locations like parties, where lots of action is going around practically everywhere:

Focus on the important characters - where they are, who they’re with. 

Provide some overall description of the structure of the party scene (a pool, a two-storey house with yard?), then move on to details. 

Don’t try to describe everything. 

whirlwind of laughter and music, a symphony of joyous chaos.

It was a gathering that shimmered with the glow of twinkling lights and echoed with the rhythm of dancing feet.

The air was alive with excitement, buzzing with conversations and the clink of glasses.

Every corner held a story waiting to unfold, a moment waiting to be captured in memory.

It was a tapestry of colors, a mosaic of faces, each adding their own brushstroke to the vibrant canvas of the night.

Laughter cascaded like a waterfall, infectious and unstoppable, filling the room with warmth.

The night was a carnival of senses, with aromas of delicious food mingling with the melodies that filled the air.

Time seemed to slip away in the whirl of the party, moments blending into each other like colors on a palette.

The energy of the crowd was electric, pulsing through the room like a heartbeat, binding everyone in a shared moment of celebration.

It was a celebration of life, where worries faded into the background, and the present moment was all that mattered.

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ERG ZHAR MOROCCO

SAND, ICE, ROCKS, WATER

Photographer Albert Knapp’s homage to the main elements of Nature

MESQUITE DUNES DEATH VALLEY CALIFORNIA

SERRA CAFEMA NAMIBIA

WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT ALAMOGORDO NEW MEXICO

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[zegalba]

Lightning rips through the sky over White Sands National Monument in New Mexico.

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[rabbitcruiser]

New Mexico was admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state on January 6, 1912. 

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