Another Look, Southern Utah
I’ve posted a similar photo from Southern Utah, but this one was filed in the wrong place somehow, so it got passed over. I think it is worth a view as well. Water was a little more plentiful in that area ten years ago.
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Short Stop Off Interstate 10
Van Horn, Texas, was just a short stop off Interstate 10 as we were heading west early in 2016. The RV park was a dusty dirt lot almost full of long-term pipeline workers building a pipeline in the area. In 2016, you could travel from one end of the town to the other in about…
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Fanciful Friday: Shifting Sands
“Deserts are not the barren wastelands we often think they are. They are filled with a unique beauty, a rich diversity of life and a profound sense of peace.” – Edward Abbey This week, “FancifulFriday” has taken yet another different direction—one that is more thoughtful and a bit more serious, although not too serious. I’m…
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Desert Fence Line
“As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Where Once Water Ran
“Water, water, water….There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of…
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Realm of Desolation
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being. Inside out and outside in. These…
