Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Heading southwest, and then to Denver, 1 by ViburnumValley

ViburnumValley wrote:
I took those four pictures from the airplane window on a late October flight to the 2011 ASLA conference in San Diego. I didn't know what I was looking at when I took them, but endeavored to find out by looking at Google satellite images of roadways, rivers, mountains, etc.

Turns out this unusual arrangement is located near the intersection of US 60 and NM 52 in western New Mexico - not very far at all from Pie Town. Thus was set an element of the itinerary for this year.

This is a National Radio Astronomy Observatory facility known as the Very Large Array (VLA). I must say: except for it being located on the Plains of San Agustin, it is pretty near the pinnacle of geekdom.