I am a retired Organic Chemist who now enjoys the time to revisit my first scientific love, Astronomy.   Before retirement, I purchased a home on 28 acres in rural New Mexico.  (bumper sticker: My second home is a double wide!).  It is a beautiful place and I spend as much time there as possible.  As the picture shows, we welcome visitors!

I also run a small Astronomy business in which I sell things that I have found to be useful.  There are 5 telrad finder chart books, a book on Asterisms, Dr. Clay Sherrod's formula (ASO) lens and refractive surface cleaner, and all sorts of other odds and ends.

I run a weather station at my place in New Mexico and it reports to two organizations, NOAA and the weather underground.  The weather underground link is complete with current photos of Mount Carrizo in the Sacramento Mountains.

When in St. Louis, I live in South County near the I-55/I-270 interchange.  

More Photos (NM, astronomy, etc.)


I taught Astronomy and Weather studies on-line at the ENMU-Ruidoso Community College til I got canned for asking the students to do algebra in a science course.  While teaching the astronomy course I ran across a wonderful resource that was too advanced for the students, but is a great learning tool.  Project Clea has a virtual observatory and one can do Astronomy science experiments with it.  Many of them are quite fascinating.  If you want something astronomical to do on a cloudy night, I highly recommend it.  One can download the experiments that one is interested in doing.