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Thought for the Month The SunTree Traveler
Alamogordo Pool Closing Just kidding, of course, it was a near-perfect day for a swimming pool event. It was difficult to imagine that it was designated as the Alamogordo "pool closing" event of the SunTree year. The day was full of good conversation with folks around the pool. We often think of summer as the top of the club activities year, but it is also the time that many in the club hit the road for holiday trips or activities involved with volunteer work. Now it is the time that the SunTree gang "comes home" to enjoy the company of our fellow members and dine on the fantastic potluck offerings. If you were not there, you missed a very enjoyable event. Halloween at Faywood Hot Springs There is a rumor that the time police will sneak in when we are at Faywood and readjust our clocks by one hour. Obviously it is a sinister plot by the Halloween ghouls to confuse us.
Pre-holiday weekend at Faywood Hot Springs Be sure to call to make your (tent site, RV hookup site or Cabin) reservations at 505.536. 9663 or online at Faywood Hot Springs
At the AANR Convention at Caliente this past August, the announcement was made that Jeff had won the award. That was truly exciting for him, but also for SunTree’s members. Many of you had already seen this announced in the Desert Exposure. The plan had been for them to announce it at the same time that we did, but our publication preparation delayed getting this into the October newsletter. The Editor of the Desert Exposure was so excited by the award that he did not want to delay the announcement another month. I do not blame him, it is something for him to brag about. We want to thank Bev Price for making the suggestion and doing the submittal work. Once again, she has reaffirmed herself as a true friend of SunTree. Thanks Bev.
Bright Planets and Meteor Showers (Again) Mars will not be able to repeat his spectacular exhibition of 2002, but he is really trying this year. For the last two months, you have probably already seen his attempts, but in November, he outdoes himself (for the present anyway) with a magnitude -2.3 display. Mars will rise in the east at sunset and will hang out across the sky all through the night. On the fourteenth, Mars will be directly below the moon. The moon will be only two days before its full stage, so will be very bright. The two team up for a beautiful display. Saturn will kick in and make an attempt at a performance. You can use the moon to help locate it on 21 November. The Moon will pull up alongside of Saturn for a little tête-à-tête before moving on the next night. A few days later, on 29 November, the crescent Moon will be in the morning sky. I guess that it will deliver any messages that it picked up from Saturn to Jupiter in the early morning hours. It looks like it will be an (almost) no show for this year’s Leonid meteor showers again. Our friend, the Moon, in an attempt to show us where to look will be almost full during the peak night of the shower (17 November) and will block out all but the brightest of the meteors. It will not hurt to look anyway, but don’t expect much. That full Moon will be two days earlier on 15 November (peaking around 6 PM MST (that will be the Beaver Moon, or to followers of the Pueblo tradition, it will be the Frost Moon). © 2004 SunTree Travel Club - Site updated Summer 2008 |
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What Happened in October
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The members of the SunTree tribe who attended the pool-closing event in Organ, NM in late summer of 2004 no doubt remembers the visit of a free-lance writer to the event. He wrote a multi-page article in the southern New Mexico monthly, Desert Exposure about SunTree. Most who saw it agreed that the writer (Jeff Berg) wrote an interesting article. Unlike many of this type of article in the public press, the members of the club were portrayed as normal people who had no qualms about clothing optional events. The editor of this newsletter felt that the article was noteworthy and sent a copy to SunTree friend Bev Price of the Arizona Wildflowers. Bev agreed that it was a well written article that portrayed us in a positive manner. She asked if there was any objection to submitting this article to the AANR for consideration in the annual press award for articles in a non-nudist publication. I got permission from the writer and Bev did the work.