Lea's Blog

Today we caught the subway to the General Osorio metro station in Ipanema.   This metro stop has a newly opened sixty-meter high elevator (...

"The life of a paver is a bitter thing, sorrows and joys are among the cobblestones." Anonymous Several qualities characteri...

 Several xmas trees you see around Rio de Janeiro are made from repurposed PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) bottles.   These images ar...

  View of Rio de Janeiro.  Image via Wikipedia.   Brasil is a challenging place.  I guess relocating to any “developing” countr...

The El Rancho Hotel (founded 1937) has been the home for numerous Movie Stars while filming in the New Mexico / Arizona border area, includ...

Wendover Will was the last image I saw as I headed out of town toward Reno to meet with Bill Fox, Director of the Museum of Art and Environm...

  These are images of my installation of Terminal Landscape, exhibited at CLUI Exhibit Hall 2 in Wendover. It is the culmination of researc...

One of the restaurants at the Montego Bay Casino: wasting energy 24/7.

Road to the Bonneville Salt Flats, one of the only roads in the U.S. without any speed restrictions. You can drive as fast as you like ...

Entrance gate to the residency. Matt Coolidge, view overlooking salt flats. Smart bike, one of several custom vehicles. Layout of t...

Interior of target hall. Exterior of target hall. Target Range.

View from South Base, Wendover. Simparch Research Facility. Capped bullet holes in the exterior to the facility. Interior Simparch...

This plane was used as a prop in the 1997 film "Con Air" (John Cusack / Nicolas Cage / John Malkovich). It collapsed during film...

The view from the CLUI tower overlooks the Engola Gay hanger from where pilot Paul Tibbets departed to drop the first atomic bomb named the ...

Intrepid Potash is a domestic producer of muriate of potash ("potassium chloride" or "potash") and langbeinite ("su...

  This 640 acre site for hazardous and toxic materials opened in 1982 and employs about 100 people. Laidlaw operated this facility until re...

According to the EPA, on several recent occasions, this magnesium chloride plant 70 miles east of Wendover has been the nation...

The road to Skull Valley leads to the Tekoi Test Range, a rocket test facility built by Hercules Inc. in 1976, on the Gosuite ...

To the left of this sign is Energy Solutions' nuclear waste site, formerly known as the Envirocare nuclear waste facility. It is one ...

This major hazardous waste incinerator burns a minimum of 30,000 tons of solvents, paints, old chemicals, contaminated soils, and PCBs ever...

  Thiokol builds the NASA space shuttle rocket motors at this sprawling isolated facility near the Promontory Mountains. Other defense an...