This is now our front yard because we have relocated to the Chihuahuan desert....a town called Roswell, New Mexico. Yep, aliens and yucca. It's an adventurous move and it'll take a few blogs to catch up to my biology studies.
This is a small town similar in size to Selma, Alabama where I once lived. I generally hate "flat" but this area reminds me so much of South Georgia, where my relatives used to live that it hits a comfortable nostalgic note. The people here are generally friendly and quite spoken compared to what I'm used to. In fact, I have a little trouble hearing them.
The elevation is 3,570 feet so it's certainly on the slope of the Great Plains but the topography is just flat
This mountain....
Sierra Blanca, is the only bump on the horizon but it's a stratovolcano over a hundred miles to the west. We passed through two road cuts through cinder cones on the way south. I'll have much more to say about the geology here and the Rio Grande rift to the west.
There are the usual businesses plus farm supply stores (another memory from the southern United States). There's a library and several museums (not all about aliens and UFOs.
Although people often think of Area 51 and the UFO conspiracy theories associated with it when they think of Roswell but Area 51 is far to the west in Nevada. I guess I'll be talking about UFOs later. I'm reading a friend's book (the friend being Dr. Gregory Reece.....the book being UFO Religion) to catch up on it. It's one of the least interesting things about Roswell to me but I'm sorta an outlier about that. Frankly I like the Roswell Sonic's root beer blended floats (best I've ever had!) better
So, it'll be Roswell for awhile (eh, but I'm keeping "Bear Creek Commentaries" for the blog title.....
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