THEN AND NOW

A courting pair of CANYON TOHEES

                                                   

A few miles east of Pie Town, AZ an old,  livestock drop-hold and sell corral sits in the sun.  No more horses or cattle will be run through the sorting gates, nor will cowboys stand on the rails trading stories and bickering prices.  Its use now is for memories and give testament of a slower paced life on the high desert.

 Weathered cottonwood and barbed wire speak quiet volumes.

Fast forward to the 21 century on the Plains of San Agustin 50 miles west of Socorro, NM.

This is the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, VLA, Very Large Array, astronomy without glass eyed telescopes.   It's the worlds premier radio observatorie utilizing 27 dishes 81 foot in diameter weighing 270 tons each, spread over 100 thousand acres in a large "Y" pattern.  Impressive! 

Jacob Metius applied for a patent, 1608,  in the Netherlands for the first telescope,  " A tube with glass that would make far away objects seem nearby."