Daily Postcard: Cloud Formation Monday Over White Rock
Daily Postcard: Cloud formation Monday evening over White Rock. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs Read More
Colorful Sunset And Rain Fill Sky At Canyon Road Tonight
A colorful sunset fills the rainy sky as night falls this evening looking west from Canyon Road at Diamond Drive. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Late Spring Bird Walk With PEEC 6:30 AM Saturday May 20
Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is hosting a late-spring bird walk 6:30 a.m. Saturday, May 20.
Anyone curious about the birds seen around the Pajarito Plateau or who just love birding, this is the perfect opportunity to explore and learn.
The walk will be led by local bird expert Bob Walker, who will guide the group along the Acid Canyon trail, a one-mile easy hike without any steep sections. The trail is the perfect location for spotting some of the amazing birds that call the Pajarito Plateau home.
Participants will begin at the Los Alamos Nature Read More
Los Alamos Farmers Market May 18 At Ashley Pond Park
Ginnie Pickett Awarded Summit Garden Club Scholarship
The Summit Garden Club of Los Alamos has awarded its 2023 Pat Edmonds-Sue Graves scholarship to Ginnie (Gwendolyn) Pickett of Los Alamos. This scholarship has been given to a Los Alamos High School senior majoring in environmental studies each year for 51 years. As early as 7th grade, in Curtis Terrill’s science class, Pickett recognized her interest in insects – their needs and roles in nature. In the summer of her sophomore year of high school, she visited the Albuquerque Bio Park, and spoke with a residing scientist about careers in entomology research, and decided to make that her field of Read More
Lushness Of Springtime On Full Display On Rover Boulevard
The lushness of springtime is on full display Saturday on Rover Boulevard in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Daily Postcard: Owl Family Of Five Spotted At Bandelier
Daily Postcard: An owl family of five is spotted spending time in the warm sunshine Saturday afternoon at Bandelier National Monument. Photo by Sally King/NPS Read More
Big Horn Sheep Spotted Grazing Around Overlook Park
Big Horn Sheep spotted Monday grazing around Overlook Park in White Rock. Photo by Dan Bigelow
Big Horn Sheep spotted Monday at Overlook Park in White Rock. Photo by Dan Bigelow Read More
Posts From The Road: Scenes Of Dramatic Weather & Light
Morning Light: The early sunrise light of a January morning begins to illuminate the sky and water surface of a lake in southern New Mexico. The red morning sky gives way to orange and yellow, which reflect in the water creating a colorful start to the day. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Late Light: While stopped for the night on our way home to Colorado in early February we stayed at an RV Park just east of Clayton, N.M. The skies were mostly clear except for a few light clouds. The sun had set and the glow of the evening light created an interesting scene with the nearby windmill and trees in the Read More
Blanket Of Iris Brightens Grand Canyon Drive
A blanket of iris blooming Saturday afternoon brightens the area along Grand Canyon Drive in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Flower-Gathering
By Robert Frost 1874-1963
I left you in the morning,
And in the morning glow,
You walked a way beside me
To make me sad to go.
Do you know me in the gloaming,
Gaunt and dusty grey with roaming?
Are you dumb because you know me not,
Or dumb because you know?
All for me? And not a question
For the faded flowers gay
That could take me from beside you
For the ages of a day?
They are yours, and be the measure
Of their worth for you to treasure,
The measure Read More
Daily Postcard: Rare-Bird Alert – Bobolink At Los Alamos Stables
Daily Postcard: A Bobolink made a rare appearance on Saturday, May 13, 2023 at the North Mesa Horse Stables in Los Alamos. Photo by Jonathon Dowell
By JONATHAN DOWELL
Los Alamos
Amazing and wonderful, a Bobolink appeared at the stables on North Mesa all day Saturday. Usually found only in the Mississippi and Atlantic flyways during spring migration, it is rare to see a Bobolink farther west than east Texas this time of year.
Auspiciously, the Bobolink appeared in Los Alamos on Global Big Day, an annual event organized by Cornell University to document bird populations and distributions in a Read More
On The Job In Los Alamos: LAHS Principal Renee Dunwoody
On the job in Los Alamos: Los Alamos High School (LAHS) Principal Renee Dunwoody is hard at work today helping the crews from LAPS Facilities, Los Alamos landscaping & More and students in Natural Helpers plant a new Giving Tree on the front lawn at LAHS. The tree was generously donated by the Rotary Club of Los Alamos. Courtesy/Craig Wehner Read More
NMED Confirms Boil Water For Chama Water System
NMED News
RIO ARRIBA COUNTY — The New Mexico Environment Department’s (NMED) Drinking Water Bureau (DWB) is confirming that a “boil water advisory” is required for the Chama Water System in Rio Arriba County.
Chama Water System was required to issue the advisory on May 10, 2023, after the water system notified NMED that the water system’s turbidity levels were above the required standards. Turbidity is a measure of the cloudiness of water, it is used to indicate water quality and filtration effectiveness. New Mexico Drinking Water Regulations require Chama Water System to notify their water Read More
County: Bike To Work Events Set For Wednesday May 17
COUNTY News:
Los Alamos County Public Works Department, the Transportation Board, and Community Services Department invite the community to celebrate “Bike to Work” events Wednesday, May 17.
Bicyclists are invited to stop by the Energizer Station 7-9 a.m. at the northwest corner of Diamond and Canyon for refreshments, snacks and bike related swag.
The public is invited to SALA – Los Alamos Event Center 6-8 p.m. Wednesday. Professional Mountain Bikers and YouTubers, Syd & Macky will share their video on replacing a car with e-bikes in Los Alamos. The Bicycle Working Group will share Read More
Valles Caldera Invites Public Input On Development Of General Management Plan/Development Concept Plan
Courtesy/NPS
NPS News:
JEMEZ SPRINGS — The National Park Service (NPS) invites public feedback on preliminary management ideas and concepts under consideration as part of a general management plan/development concept plan being developed for Valles Caldera National Preserve.
The goal of this planning effort is to establish long-term direction for resource protection and visitor experiences at the park, as well as high-level concepts to guide potential future facility investments.
The public engagement period for this initial stage of the planning effort will take place May 8 to June Read More
On The Job In Los Alamos: At DOE’s EM-LA Field Office
On the job in Los Alamos at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Environmental Management – Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) Wednesday is analyst Allison Scott Majure, left, speaking with EM-LA’s Acting Director of Cleanup Execution Cheryl Rodriguez. When EM was first established in 1989 it was responsible for the cleanup of 107 sites in 35 states. Today, only 16 sites remain including Los Alamos National Laboratory. Locally, EM-LA oversees cleanup contractor N3B to investigate hazardous contamination that resulted from the Manhattan Era/Cold War period of LANL operations and then remediate sites Read More
Daily Postcard: Northern Pygmy Owl In Tree At Bandelier
Daily Postcard: A northern pygmy owl perches in a tree recently at Bandelier National Monument. Courtesy/NPS Read More
Governor Lujan Grisham, Attorney General Torrez On Holtec License Decision: ‘We Will Not Stop Our Fight To Protect New Mexico From Becoming A Nuclear Dumping Ground’
STATE News:
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and Attorney General Raúl Torrez issued a joint statement following the decision by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to grant a license to Holtec International for an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.
“This decision by the NRC – which has been made despite the grave concerns of the state and the legislature over the project’s potential impacts to health, safety and the economy – is incredibly disappointing. It also undermines the NRC’s alleged commitment to meaningful engagement with stakeholders, as it appears Read More
Springtime At The Acupuncture Center Of Los Alamos
Hollyhock flowers. Photo by Erika Bittner
By The Acupuncture Center of Los Alamos:
It’s that time of the year again! With spring’s bounty brings plenty of allergies.
If you would like some relief from your allergies, come on into The Acupuncture Center of Los Alamos for some relief. Dr. Aimee Price (Owner) and Dr. Erika Bittner treat a wide range of conditions such as allergies, pain, sports injuries, migraines, Central Nervous System (CNS) Disorders, depression/anxiety, arthritis and much more!
We use many modalities such as needles, tacks, electrical stimulation (E-Stim), moxabustion, Read More
Valles Caldera Invites Public Input On Development Of General Management Plan/Development Concept Plan
NPS News:
JEMEZ SPRINGS — The National Park Service (NPS) invites public feedback on preliminary management ideas and concepts under consideration as part of a general management plan/development concept plan being developed for Valles Caldera National Preserve.
The goal of this planning effort is to establish long-term direction for resource protection and visitor experiences at the park, as well as high-level concepts to guide potential future facility investments.
The public engagement period for this initial stage of the planning effort will take place from May 8 to June 9, 2023, Read More
