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Don Lovell
Last updated on Monday, December 23, 2002
Don Lovell lives in Kansas City, Missouri and is employed as an environmental inspector and project manager. During the fall and winter of 1997 and the early spring of 1998, he managed several environmental and demolition projects for Union Pacific Railroad at numerous locations around New Mexico, including Carrizozo and Deming. His best known project was the explosive demolition of the old 105 ft tall, circa 1903, concrete coal scale structure in the Deming rail yard.
Don Lovell Don is an accomplished songwriter and performer, playing rock guitar with Kansas City area bands. He enjoys hunting and shooting sports, camping, and fishing. He is an organic gardener and enjoys growing many varieties of chili peppers, and making homemade salsas and cooking Mexican and Cajun dishes. Don also raises terriers; His work related travels in New Mexico inspired his writing skills and he hopes to one day become a contributing resident of Southern New Mexico.
Articles by Don Lovell
I had flown into Albuquerque, rented a vehicle and driven down to Carrizozo through Sorroco and across the Stallion Station. Severe thunderstorms had moved through the area that day, providing some incredible sights of distant cloud formations with rain shafts and lightning displays. As I drove across Stallion Station, an oryx stood by the fence chewing his cud, a sight that made me do a double take as I had only seen one in a zoo before and had no idea such a critter existed in this country otherwise. I commented to myself that after having read about the Trinity Site bomb test, it was probably just a radioactive mutated range cow deceiving my eyes. When traveling around New Mexico during my work there last year, I found myself spending a good portion of every drive I made pulled over to the side of the road taking pictures. It seems that around every corner and just over every hill there is a commanding view with amazing textures, deep pastel colors, or the surreal effect of heat shimmers and stark contrast. The sight of elk, deer and antelope grazing, or a roadrunner hunting for snakes and lizards always catches my attention, and I can’t resist stopping to check it out.
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