https://guytal.com/cottonwoods-old daily 0.75 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487417523-TN1TBIJLQH1XQFNQF7JE/do000006.jpg Cottonwoods - Canyon Meadow Image code: #do000006 A small grassy meadow presided over by ancient cottonwood trees, in a remote desert canyon. Autumn colors are visible in the trees and in the skunk bushes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487417523-TN1TBIJLQH1XQFNQF7JE/do000006.jpg Cottonwoods - Canyon Meadow Image code: #do000006 A small grassy meadow presided over by ancient cottonwood trees, in a remote desert canyon. Autumn colors are visible in the trees and in the skunk bushes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487452999-SKI89UIJV5ALBI392RXA/do000065.jpg Cottonwoods - Canyon Elders Image code: #do000065 Old cottonwood trees show their age not only in impressive size, but also in the depth and complexity of the grooves in their bark. These twins (they likely are genetically identical and sharing one root system) preside over a beautiful grassy patch in a remote canyon. This image was made on the tenth autumn I have camped by these trees. And what a decade it was. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487484448-UUJIUTT7UOX69SYG0JWM/di001298.jpg Cottonwoods - Visiting an Old Friend Image code: #di001298 I had known this cottonwood for well over a decade. When we first “met”, it was about half its size in this photograph. At the time of this writing, it still thrives in its unusual setting, in a deep pothole in the sandstone. This sandstone was a dune in the largest sand desert to ever exist on Earth, in the Jurassic period. The cross-bedded lines in the sandstone register the pattern of winds that blew the sand onto this dune about two hundred million years ago. By comparison, human beings existed on Earth for only 200,000-300,000 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487510717-4Y20PB176SCFETUYA0FO/dl000202.jpg Cottonwoods - Early to Rise Image code: #dl000202 Green rabbitbrush under a dormant cottonwood not yet awake for spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487536670-YIUHEUCC5MOL86HOAYWR/di001834.jpg Cottonwoods - Liberated by Light Image code: #di001834 Sliver of winter sunlight catches the branches of a cottonwood tree usually hiding in the shade of a steep canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487565248-TIW3HCT0FWMUT0XE90H1/di001750.jpg Cottonwoods - Sleeping Guard Image code: #di001750 Glowing grasses and rabbitbrush bushes in front of cottonwood lit by reflected red glow from a canyon wall. I have camped by this tree countless times over the years. I came to think of it as guardian and a friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1554230161709-5JFGN8SM7FBXD29ZCV5A/dn001113.jpg Cottonwoods - Twisted and Bent Image code: #dn001113 After standing bare in the color winter months, these cottonwood trees are sprouting new buds in early spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487592079-9WCTS4A7MP5MG36Z7B05/do000005.jpg Cottonwoods - Golden Reprisal Image code: #do000005 Cottonwoods had a very good year in 2018, in stark contrast to other deciduous trees, where the effects of climate change have been more readily visible (at times devastatingly so). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487617630-59MWPN6GILV7JNCMGP3Y/dn000968.jpg Cottonwoods - Unto Itself Image code: #dn000968 Solitary cottonwood tree in autumn coat in an other-worldly landscape of desert badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487640473-BE8LWGPQYM6K008MG23G/dn000961.jpg Cottonwoods - Better than Gold Image code: #dn000961 Not all that glitters is gold, thankfully. Cottonwood in autumn display against a backdrop of blue clay slopes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487673476-QQC7FOG5NHHVH6Q5425C/do000001.jpg Cottonwoods - Desert Autumn Celebration Image code: #do000001 A small grove of cottonwood and oak trees in a deep canyon, in autumn display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487709134-K4KTIF2HFUW80QNJ34IZ/dn000960.jpg Cottonwoods - Gateway Image code: #dn000960 Cottonwood trees in a meadow filled with willows, growing along a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487735993-PNQ51YDKVRS6VNM7QYNJ/dn000959.jpg Cottonwoods - Come Closer Image code: #dn000959 Desert brush and cottonwood tree in autumn display, set against a striped and varnished sandstone cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487829895-D7BDVPFI35WUZUA05N0U/dn000722.jpg Cottonwoods - Time to Wake Image code: #dn000722 Bare cottonwood tree against the backdrop of a green mountain slope, in early spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487859566-7RO6YI2V5VFLEAG8RWP6/do000062.jpg Cottonwoods - Hopeful Sapling Image code: #do000062 Young cottonwood sapling in autumn color, growing among reeds. Most young cottonwoods in the deep canyons end up swept away by flash floods (although they may take root in a new spot, if they happen to land in a fortuitous place). This one looks to be a couple of years old, so likely has found a good place to set root, and may some day become a giant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487889036-V0SUCO35RYM2TVNMJV6Z/dn000718.jpg Cottonwoods - Sweet Dream Image code: #dn000718 A large cottonwood spreads its limbs over a growth of willows and rabbitbrush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487919373-B8R4H9LIFD46K0IRELI3/dn000009.jpg Cottonwoods - Slow Dancing Image code: #dn000009 Cottonwood tree in autumn foliage growing by the side of a small desert creek. I like the gesture implied in the curve; it reminded me of a graceful dancer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475421117-1QRIXT61EZNGZMP9SUIM/de001861.jpg Cottonwoods - Refuge Image code: #de001861 Cottonwood tree in sandstone crevice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487975142-0NTMQG8ULAUOLKQI8NBY/dn000568.jpg Cottonwoods - Forsaken Path Image code: #dn000568 A solitary walk along a tree-lined canyon path on a quiet winter afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488006896-RIHOLTU0IC041VCXT3OS/dn000019.jpg Cottonwoods - Autumn Veil Image code: #dn000019 Backlit cottonwood leaves, hanging from elegant thin branches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488030724-9AG2MPYBETP4SRAJWWZF/dn000775.jpg Cottonwoods - Luminous Emergence Image code: #dn000775 New spring foliage on cottonwood tree glows when lit from behind as the late sun is low in the sky, illuminating just the top of the tree, but not the deep wash it grows in. The red leaves are dry remnants still clinging to the tree after last year’s autumn season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488060649-S0JBCU0KIYW4J6BAJHJW/dn000400.jpg Cottonwoods - Autumn Revelation Image code: #dn000400 Flaring sun rays piercing through cottonwood tree on an autumn afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488090186-B1H239WHPGUOGD4JMOYV/di000670.jpg Cottonwoods - The Loneliest Season Image code: #di000670 Winter is when we retreat into our thoughts and heated shelters. Those rooted to the landscape persevere in their own way, and like all things left to their own devices for long enough, their stasis is perfected and elegant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488135965-FXBMPDUBHPWDJZP1N5ZL/dn000146.jpg Cottonwoods - Winter Minuet Image code: #dn000146 Dormant cottonwood trees engulfed in wintry fog, looking like they are swaying to music only they can hear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488170584-6W1JU0JXG84RGHKF8OUL/di001793.jpg Cottonwoods - Frosted Canopy Image code: #di001793 Old cottonwood tree in a canyon, frosted in new snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488195233-91BTSBP84IO9V5DI51DW/dc000351.jpg Cottonwoods - Sheltered Image code: #dc000351 Cottonwood tree growing in a deep pothole in a large sandstone dome. A monsoon thunderstorm approaches. This image was made years ago, when this tree was still alive (it is no longer), and few people knew of its location. Today, this area has been “developed,” with a graveled parking area, restroom, and “no-camping” signs. At the time, I used to enjoy camping nearby, sometimes for a week or more without seeing any other people. I liked scrambling to the top of this sandstone dome in the afternoon to watch the warm light fading over the desert as evening fell. I’m a firm believer that turning such places into tourist attractions is as damaging and exploitative as any other industrial use. The place still looks somewhat the same, but it feels nothing like it did when it was wild, remote, and little-visited. That place I knew, no longer exists. Over the years I returned to visit this tree many times. I stopped visiting when it finally died a few years ago, although I drive by the area every now and then, always remembering fondly what it used to be like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488219879-DNHI6FBS9Y94NI78NIEG/di001690.jpg Cottonwoods - Badlands Cottonwoods in Autumn Image code: #di0001690 Cottonwood trees in autumn coats growing along a desert river at the base of colorful mineral-rich bentonite clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488247639-WVCRZEO6R1ZG1AMFS249/dn000001.jpg Cottonwoods - Sheltering Walls Image code: #dn000001 Cottonwood tree begins to turn into its autumn colors, growing against a the curved wall of a deep canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488277725-0P1RKCC9B2MJCJXY7WG7/dn000017.jpg Cottonwoods - Autumn Ornaments Image code: #dn000017 Like decorative ornaments, the golden leaves of a cottonwood tree in autumn color, brighten the canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488323742-VV5BAZCQ4VCPUYIGEJ2J/do000104.jpg Cottonwoods - Quiet Chaos Image code: #do000104 A thick growth of cottonwood trees, willows, and desert brush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488368080-N3JVP70B3OD487OH8G5X/di001522.jpg Cottonwoods - Early Signs Image code: #di001522 Small buds on cottonwood trees signals the arrival of spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488400720-8V6GNU93HKKKDECUSIIQ/dn000259.jpg Cottonwoods - Spring Breeze Image code: #dn000259 New spring foliage on a tall cottonwood tree. A strong wind was blowing, which is evident on close examination of the canopy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488436858-EDX7TOL5BJHTB8S43BI4/di000615.jpg Cottonwoods - Thermonuclear Sunrise Image code: #di000615 Winter sun above a cottonwood tree engulfed in fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488471131-1RQL1P09TU3HZ3PS0MU9/di001145.jpg Cottonwoods - The Glowing Season Image code: #di001145 Cottonwood tree in peak autumn color, in the warm glow of light reflecting off steep red canyon walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488497559-94WQS2TKGQXET3482JS0/dc000502.jpg Cottonwoods - The Desert Dreams Image code: #dc000502 Dormant trees and desert brush offer subtle hues in every color of the rainbow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488530224-KE8CUIWV60X9RWR1FLQ6/de002413.jpg Cottonwoods - Home for the Holidays Image code: #de002413 A row of cottonwood trees, bare for the winter season, against a backdrop of sandstone cliffs. I made this photograph from one of the local roads in my home town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488555681-EPBV6J3QG7V70W24CFD5/dn001113.jpg Cottonwoods - Twisted and Bent Image code: #dn001113 Cottonwood trees still bare just before the eruption of spring. The last of the winter's snow still visible in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488703774-VMMB799UV59BLBTBBOTK/dh000261.jpg Cottonwoods - Moments Away Image code: #dh000261 Fallen cottonwood rests on a thin and textured sheet of ice in the shaded edge of a desert creek. Red cliffs lit by the morning sun reflect a golden glow, and the ice will be gone in the coming hours as sunlight reaches this small patch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488732568-OHNXNKF57VXT68WVRUHF/do000074.jpg Cottonwoods - A Moment to Rest Image code: #do000074 Fallen cottonwood leaves resting on wet silt at the bottom of a canyon after a recent flood. The next flood will wash them away for good. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488756790-PQZ633VD6FWDVT04P3BE/di001670.jpg Cottonwoods - Canyon Chocolate Image code: #di001670 Fallen autumn cottonwood leaves resting on fresh mud sculpted by a flash flood the previous day. Within a couple of days, this mud will dry and crack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488786209-A6UXWL67DUIM0Y0AKK0O/e000080.jpg Cottonwoods - Basking in the Glow Image ID: #e000080 A slender cottonwood tree engulfed in the red glow of autumn sunlight reflecting off the red rock walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488817816-UZ165SQLKTILYW9FOXXE/e000085.jpg Cottonwoods - Solitary Witness Image ID: #e000085 Solitary cottonwood tree growing by a remote desert creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488846766-SSP78Y5BW6D6REY2U7US/e000074.jpg Cottonwoods - Slenderness Image ID: #e000074 A tall cottonwood tree sheltered in a deep canyon, in autumn color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616339232726-2UU28F23IOS892YFKSI5/f000326.jpg Cottonwoods - Spring Will Come Image code: #f000326 Standing bare in late winter, a cottonwood tree awaits the coming of spring in the shade of a sandstone cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1554230202948-1WFBRW47OL6TH3QZOTU0/dn000969.jpg Cottonwoods - Abundant Autumn Image code: #dn000969 A lush growth of cottonwoods, skunk bush, and other desert flora thrive in an area close to desert river, and put on a nice show of autumn colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616339234131-U65W7COQ2I5FAMJ6MHDZ/f000324.jpg Cottonwoods - Almost Spring Image code: #f000324 Still dormant at the end of a long winter, a cottonwood tree flanked by colorful willows and birches is covered in a light dusting of snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616339235277-1PF88ON7VM072QNW9HFY/f000345.jpg Cottonwoods - Spring Begins Image code: #f000345 Covered in tiny new buds, this cottonwood is about to unfurl its new leaves as winter comes to an end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1627836702568-JH15HKIYNDNB20OWK2BT/de001702.jpg Cottonwoods - Winter Dream Image ID: #de001702 Dormant cottonwood and birch trees by a desert creek in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1627836103995-32IRXWCCVCH69QF20DRI/dn000716.jpg Cottonwoods - Blue Slumber Image ID: #dn000716 Dormant cottonwood persevere winter among willows and rabbitbrush bushes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1627836419557-CM5FAJH51CTUEPFHBR82/di001955.jpg Cottonwoods - Winter's Rest Image ID: #di001955 Cottonwood tree covered in fresh snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488872490-BQ2GFXC22MZ83C7ORHEE/e000091.jpg Cottonwoods - Ode to Everett Image ID: #e000091 A Sonnet for Everett Ruess / By Edward Abbey You walked into the radiance of death through passageways of stillness, stone and light, gold coin of cottonwoods, the spangled shade, cascading song of canyon wren, the flight of scarlet dragonflies at pools, the stain of water on a curve of sand, the art of roots that crack the monolith of time. You know the crazy lust to probe the heart of that which has no heart we could know, toward the source, deep in the core, the maze, the secret center where no bounds hold. Hunter, brother, companion of our days: that blessing you hunted, hunted too; what you were seeking, is what found you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488900606-23L3P13Y0IL7VJ3N218P/e000087.jpg Cottonwoods - Evening By a Desert Creek Image ID: #e000087 I backpacked into this remote desert canyon one autumn, and stayed there for a couple of days camped next to a small desert creek. The cottonwood trees were beginning to turn. I found that the absence of humans was most pronounced in the silent twilight hours. These are times generally witnessed only by those prepared to stay the night. The only sound noticeable was the soft gurgling of the small trickle of water among the rocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488928454-A5Y1TJARW2URYCG9Y6UN/e000093.jpg Cottonwoods - Halloween Costume Image ID: #e000093 Cottonwood tree in ghoulish autumn display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1643051954619-P40Q10312OOZB57SAJAI/f000611.jpg Cottonwoods - Pas de Deux Image code: #f000611 Cottonwood in glorious autumn coat strikes a ballet pose in a canyon spotlight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1660750335631-655CI5DOVNLI47M6A2TN/f000360.jpg Cottonwoods - Graceful Chaos Image code: #f000360 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1643051956376-C9IZ1XXQBBN5U0DFZM0T/f000631.jpg Cottonwoods - Spare Abundance Image code: #f000631 Cottonwood tree in autumn foliage reflecting in a canyon pool. The setting reminded me of these words by Edward Abbey: "Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1675887412141-L5DK72IQ3XM760H4PVVP/dh000577.jpg Cottonwoods - Tentacles Image code: #dh000577 Snow covered long limbs of cottonwood trees reaching out from the fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1675887413987-0BTVIWXS4WV23ZLMZFHV/f000971.jpg Cottonwoods - Muted Grace Image code: #f000971 A dormant cottonwood tree growing among pastel-colored hills and willow trees, quietly awaiting the arrival of spring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1675887412181-25D3QTD69BYS9474UVXX/dn000144.jpg Cottonwoods - Ghostly Image code: #dn000144 Dormant cottonwood tree engulfed in snow and fog during a winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1675887825108-V8OD86BCXWXRMWRTFLMO/f000984.jpg Cottonwoods - Medusa Image code: #f000984 Dormant cottonwood among desert brush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1646940772253-B21OHBS08VEP3LIYT2CG/f000617.jpg Cottonwoods - Undefeated Image code: #f000617 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1646940770682-0GD3TSWC2QGDM52A2ZE9/f000607.jpg Cottonwoods - After the Flood Image code: #f000607 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1671142429818-ZA111TFESOCPWQ0L4GMD/di001485.jpg Cottonwoods - Winter Love Image code: #di001485 Cottonwood tree, oaks, phragmites, and other desert brush frosted in snow, against a canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1671142430915-OAFENSJT8K2RLUJHSMBX/di001879.jpg Cottonwoods - In the Pink Image code: #di001879 Cottonwood trees and dormant willows against snow covered badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1671142430042-E9K9JK39YR3ELTCSWWJ1/di001784.jpg Cottonwoods - Do Trees Dream? Image code: #di001784 Dormant cottonwood tree, willows, and desert brush in winter, along a desert creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702708126-PPJ6WGXDM3946J33GD3S/f000864.jpg Cottonwoods - A Well Earned Rest Image code: #f000864 Tenacious cottonwood trees eking our a living in a flood and drought prone canyon, glowing in autumn color as another turbulent year comes to an end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702706687-OLB6VVO7S0IWZJYS2ZLN/f000853.jpg Cottonwoods - The Life Zone Image code: #f000853 Cottonwood trees, rabbitbrush, and other desert plants thrive along the narrow channel of a desert river in an area of badlands otherwise almost devoid of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702711713-AS4TZCEL4FA58UIALIQ4/f000898.jpg Cottonwoods - A Gentle Storm Image code: #f000898 Cottonwoods, oaks, and other desert plant in autumn color welcome one of the year’s first winter storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018802933-5S1MQEQU63IVCJUHLYC1/f000363.jpg Cottonwoods - Is It Time Yet? Image code: #f000363 Cottonwood tree branch lit by early spring sunlight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018803387-H2R5XHPOPAADHLA3F4MG/f000725.jpg Cottonwoods - Spring Hope Image code: #f000725 Early spring foliage on cottonwood tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018801788-CYWVCKDM6WTHNJGPB0BJ/dn000594.jpg Cottonwoods - For a Minute a Day Image code: #dn000594 Long-dead small desert shrub gets a daily spotlight for a few moments each morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1651083509263-7PH97K3OGX9S71P17JGH/f000703.jpg Cottonwoods - Tegularius Image code: #f000703 I’ve had Hermann Hesse on my mind as I visited with these cottonwood trees as they began to sprout new leaves in early spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1651083511538-M78HGNG7SHAJHB62VJAF/f000712.jpg Cottonwoods - Varieties of Time Image code: #f000712 Cottonwood tree and tafoni wall, in early spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1651083511826-PK9KZMU1VS4N6T2FKH64/f000713.jpg Cottonwoods - Siddhartha Image code: #f000713 I’ve had Hermann Hesse on my mind as I visited with these cottonwood trees as they began to sprout new leaves in early spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570972587-P9D3YTE9N968T1FZ2B0K/de003212.jpg Cottonwoods - Uprising Young cottonwood trees, bare during the winter season, against a backdrop of blue badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570974657-VUNB3VSVZ0T5O23KRRAX/g000003.jpg Cottonwoods - Sprite Image code: #g000003 Young cottonwood trees growing among willows, in winter colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616339591650-S01DN8BEQO6E488XC74V/f000324.jpg Cottonwoods - Almost Spring Image code: #f000324 Still dormant at the end of a long winter, a cottonwood tree flanked by colorful willows and birches is covered in a light dusting of snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570975012-WLOQCYDJ962ZCJWXGXMI/g000001.jpg Cottonwoods - Cottonwood Cumulus Image code: #g000001 Large and prolifically branching cottonwood tree in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1716302208400-2UGR8LNUY6GQLB7V49CO/g000145.jpg Cottonwoods - Restfulness Image code: #g000145 Dormant cottonwood tree among willows illuminated by a momentary shaft of evening light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705096165407-HQNS6T31YXESDOZ6C91F/f001066.jpg Cottonwoods - Who Needs Green? Image code: #f001066 “You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.” —Wallace Stegner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705096164073-TAURR9ABDBH263I4XB2Y/f000728.jpg Cottonwoods - Perchance to Dream Image code: #f000728 “To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.” —William Shakespeare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1731616629154-JIDG2UCHZVZHVRJAWY87/g000198.jpg Cottonwoods - Trusted Aloneness Image code: #g000198 "Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust." —Rainer Maria Rilke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1731616631009-22RGU3G0A0GOT5W4IQAM/g000215.jpg Cottonwoods - One Last Song Image code: #g000215 Cottonwood and tamarisk trees by a desert creek showing off the last of their autumn foliage before winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1731616589062-LZOYXRQGGWU0B3KYU0LE/f000684.jpg Cottonwoods - Youthful Enthusiasm Image code: #f000684 A dense thicket of young cottonwood trees growing among willows in the floodplain of a desert river. Having shed their leaves for winter, they await spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062452744-4P958AP7LJDQGXFQU1RK/f000984.jpg Cottonwoods - Hydra Image code: #f000984 Cottonwood tree still bare after the winter’s slumber, among desert shrubs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1738343701940-X0KHKRM8GADOTFRN7QE5/f001068.jpg Cottonwoods - Home in the Valley Image code: #f001068 Cottonwoods, birches, and ponderosa pines in autumn color, in a hidden canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1738343704902-HAQA2NR0QGG69JR3N5O8/g000242.jpg Cottonwoods - Winter Repose Image code: #g000242 Dormant cottonwood trees in winter, still holding onto some of their autumn foliage. https://guytal.com/recent-additions daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076271618-2JJW154PUL42M59OTLHI/f000538.jpg Recent Additions - Hush Upon the Land Image code: #f000538 Cloud shadows and light beams caressing desert buttes during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076271618-2JJW154PUL42M59OTLHI/f000538.jpg Recent Additions - Hush Upon the Land Image code: #f000538 Cloud shadows and light beams caressing desert buttes during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076274177-PDYJ8TTO1AGHOVTSUQUM/f000989.jpg Recent Additions - Desert Mysterium Image code: #f000989 Cloud shadows and piercing sunlight over desert badlands during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076270814-66TYXYAA8MH7PDTBRWO3/f000537.jpg Recent Additions - Please Stay Image code: #f000537 Cloud shadows and light beams caressing desert buttes during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076276454-6D6UKCKOP9J8OBJYZUCG/g000323.jpg Recent Additions - Arboreal Alluvium Image code: #g000323 The tree-like patterns of water flowing through sand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076275202-A14WVD21H5SEUGSV3CNZ/g000314.jpg Recent Additions - OK, Maybe Image code: #g000314 Desert shrub lit by the last rays of the setting sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076277823-YHQIEQ1K5SCCRBN6ZWVD/g000324.jpg Recent Additions - Timeless Ephemera Image code: #g000324 The tree-like patterns of water flowing through sand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076279313-EAN781G02HDI1KHDCC0O/h000013.jpg Recent Additions - One More Day? Image code: #h000013 The very last autumn foliage on a cottonwood tree and the remnants of rabbitbrush flowers glowing in early winter light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076269706-YQ5EN08B7WELDHWBQMUM/dn001116.jpg Recent Additions - In a Dream Image code: #dn001116 A cottonwood tree, dormant and leafless for the winter, in the faint glow of light reflecting off a canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076273630-KMEPTJMRW61SDPEKVM7J/f000862.jpg Recent Additions - Precarious Survival Image code: #f000862 Cottonwood trees in autumn colors clinging to a sand bar in a flood-prone canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076268622-Y4X3UQCRHYSY97DJVQGI/di001679.jpg Recent Additions - Eternal Rest Image code: #di001679 Autumn light an cloud shadows sweeping over a surreal desert landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076266868-8PTTCH2S8TPNUK6F65BG/de000685.jpg Recent Additions - To All, A Good Night Image code: #de000685 Remote sand dunes catching the fast-fading last light of the day before darkness sets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628877474674-H79WI5X66VSVVOTRQ1HW/f000480.jpg Recent Additions - Whispering Image code: #f000480 This image is part of the “Adjectives for Desert Storms” collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076267466-8CB7J0HTLUOOFRJAZCLI/di001675.jpg Recent Additions - The Moment Before Image code: #di001675 Storm clouds casting shadows on a desert landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303304458-1DL12F8SIACOIAGFUCAU/g000301.jpg Recent Additions - Traces in Time Image code: #g000301 Large petroglyphs of bird tracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303301430-HHRJWLHFFITFQ2B02Z4D/g000255.jpg Recent Additions - Sign Language Image code: #g000255 Hand prints beside a small granary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303295487-EBX5XIM0W0K2VXAUW49L/dn001260.jpg Recent Additions - Game Piece Image code: #dn001260 Ancient split twig figurine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303303401-7YTL44C46LZI7472UA6T/g000297.jpg Recent Additions - Another One Not Wasted Image code: #g000297 Old juniper tree and grasses glowing in the twilight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303292370-VHKJFU372TEM4IGWYJG8/dc001384.jpg Recent Additions - Aloneness Image code: #dc001384 Lone cottonwood tree growing in a large water pocket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303295749-8JP3IKT69T7IHZ1WNPQJ/dn000367.jpg Recent Additions - Happy Prophet Image code: #dn000367 Joshua tree glowing in the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744118207-ZR13L4G27K4TCU7WZTE2/dp000109.jpg Recent Additions - Glistening Path Image code: #dp000109 Fluted walls and shimmering mud in a slot canyon after a flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744129944-EON98CA1OHMK7WVG48S8/g000275.jpg Recent Additions - Adagio for Light and Rock Image code: #g000275 The shadowplay of passing clouds over a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570972587-P9D3YTE9N968T1FZ2B0K/de003212.jpg Recent Additions - Uprising Image code: #de003212 Young cottonwood trees, bare during the winter season, against a backdrop of blue badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744109472-S3KO26DYIJ2QNSWL5DEL/cm000002.jpg Recent Additions - Geologic Ballet Image code: #cm000002 A log lodged between a slot canyon walls, where it was deposited by a flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744125929-LYLYPW5JF46LSWDBQI2Y/g000140.jpg Recent Additions - Distorted Harmony Image code: #g000140 Reflections of reeds in the rippled waters of an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744112151-A25FREFEHX13GCHAJL8Q/de003240.jpg Recent Additions - Aswirl Image code: #de003240 Swirling foam patterns near the outlet of a small alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744123117-B9WT6XXLYJ9H6AO7065M/f001023.jpg Recent Additions - Looking Back Image code: #f001023 Fallen oak leaves floating in a canyon pool, facing toward the branches they were once attached to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570974657-VUNB3VSVZ0T5O23KRRAX/g000003.jpg Recent Additions - Sprite Image code: #g000003 Young cottonwood trees growing among willows, in winter colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705096165584-LXJE9YRCJSCLVORB8SKY/g000109.jpg Recent Additions - Silence and Desolation Image code: #g000109 Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld! Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night! I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength. —Edgar Allan Poe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062446051-7MM439PIRTCG768KR3EA/g000220.jpg Recent Additions - She Awakens Image code: #g000220 Ash tree straddling large boulders in a canyon, in autumn foliage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062453501-AJUGKFX2UKUFZNXR0Z35/f000302.jpg Recent Additions - Prophetic Joshua tree yucca growing among a thick field of desert trumpet buckwheat plants. These plants have been thriving in areas formerly occupied by other native plants due to climate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570975012-WLOQCYDJ962ZCJWXGXMI/g000001.jpg Recent Additions - Cottonwood Cumulus Image code: #g000001 Large and prolifically branching cottonwood tree in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062457178-KOPO9EOX56XC6RS2LNB6/dl000260.jpg Recent Additions - Fluid Discontinuity Image code: #dl000260 Travertine ridges on the slopes of a warm spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062458306-A5955P54A4DXAV5J23RN/dl000240.jpg Recent Additions - Absorption Image code: #dl000240 Cottonwood leaf slowly sinking into wet clay mud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062455998-J5YD7ZTZL67T87Z828ZH/dl000263.jpg Recent Additions - Dark Matter Image code: #dl000263 Concretions and patterns in travertine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1699625563008-0EYF8DC40QQ5B079MKC5/g000125.jpg Recent Additions - Ephemera Image code: #g000125 Aspen leaves floating over the rippled reflections of reeds in an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1699625563539-T9VOB43MHHD9EQZVHE0P/g000126.jpg Recent Additions - Transient Verdancy Image code: #g000126 Mountain creek flowing among a ponderosa pine forest. Oaks and currant bushes in autumn color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970424638-Z2TNRQIEU1WEMCXEXK97/f000153.jpg Recent Additions - Farewell to a Season Image code: #f000153 Last of the scrub oak foliage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1699626107604-ATCGX2PCC2159KYO5F62/g000127.jpg Recent Additions - Seasonal Reflections Image code: #g000127 Raindrops hitting the surface of an alpine lake reflecting aspen trees in autumn color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1695393576779-GDME1DXUFX0BMZMUJYRU/g000123.jpg Recent Additions - Morning Whisper Image code: #g000123 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1695393574681-H0LTYOCTY2NNQFU22D6R/f001045.jpg Recent Additions - Spring Thunder Image code: #f001045 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1695393575402-LF207VYWCPEASL7IRBBF/f001050.jpg Recent Additions - Solitary Communion Image code: #f001050 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1695393576459-CJI9C3JB3ZYBAKE9QD4M/g000116.jpg Recent Additions - The Big Quiet Image code: #g000116 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1695393574426-QNRNOVIT4SHJDKY4RH4J/f000463.jpg Recent Additions - Distant Sanctuary Image code: #f000463 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1554152156965-X2ZEBS973L8XVZPS22IC/dn000167.jpg Recent Additions - blabla to order… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1695393575826-GM77TOBP9RT2RA8SDZYX/g000039.jpg Recent Additions - Forgetfulness Image code: #g000039 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1684511491709-DJ1PC99DKJHSGAF9R6GZ/f000970.jpg Recent Additions - A Beautiful Mess Image code: #f000970 Dormant young cottonwood trees, rabbitbrush, and tamarisk shoots against a bare hillside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1684511493429-YTVW6LLNZVSGS3E9T0XY/g000005.jpg Recent Additions - Riparian Nursery Image code: #g000005 Young cottonwood and willow trees beginning to change color in early spring, before their first leaves sprout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1684511492481-TOAYWO8ZK5ADN3HTK36T/f001031.jpg Recent Additions - Rosy Outlook Image code: #f001031 A row of wild rose bushes in front of dormant aspen trees . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375365088-5AQ63DBBEBBIEO7RLSPP/g000051.jpg Recent Additions - Motte and Bailey Image code: #g000051 Desert plants in prolific bloom at the feet of an arid mountain range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603044721398-2OG341PTD4WL8BCLYIS6/dp000089.jpg Recent Additions - Unfurling Image code: #dp000089 A close look at a rare Bear Poppy plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375366674-MPY1VT61349JXJT4FL4W/g000055.jpg Recent Additions - Self Defense Image code: #g000055 Desert flowers in prolific bloom, protected by abundant cholla cactus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375365039-C81FRU8Q00DD6ZO77VPD/g000049.jpg Recent Additions - Odorous Morning Image code: #g000049 “Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.” —Walt Whitman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375876432-ZXAC4MS2CESELCXJL4JH/g000053.jpg Recent Additions - Pie in the Sky Image code: #g000053 Storm cloud and virga (rain that evaporates before reaching the ground) above a desert landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375875442-G91WXPLLVYT8OQBE2L3K/f000977.jpg Recent Additions - A Midnight Dreary Image code: #f000977 Moon surrounded by colorful aura (“moonbow”) and streaming clouds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603043029765-6IOLNMMLJ0D9WU1YKHXI/e000063.jpg Recent Additions - Home Colors Image code: #e000063 "I am not that presumptuous to think I could speak or paint or write the natural history of my home colors. I know only that they are to blame for intent and motion, for an asymmetrical journey of wonder and of trouble. Light can run a person’s time and moods; it can explain everything." ~Ellen Meloy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375875739-ETFLNVM8FNSZJQ8IB8B6/g000041.jpg Recent Additions - Mutable Solace Image code: #g000041 Sunlight piercing through thick storm clouds illuminating desert buttes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570970377-8GLU44DHP9MLRIL1UMAA/f000999.jpg Recent Additions - Mind Games Image code: #f000999 Sandstone pattern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676571117428-SW7NCM92BYH0HXQK3BQT/f000998.jpg Recent Additions - The Slow Journey Image code: #f000998 Colorful mineral deposits in sandstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570972456-1UMZ6NRO85WGE4MQC71B/dn001025.jpg Recent Additions - Good Boy Image code: #dn001025 Mineral deposits in sandstone in the shape of a dog’s head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553760988-ECCF43BNNXYWQYK0DSKF/f000951.jpg Recent Additions - Holiday Season Image code: #f000951 The slopes of a desert mountain glowing in late winter light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553759053-HHNDG8VZG3CIFMW9I2G7/f000939.jpg Recent Additions - Petrified Primaries Image code: #f000939 Colorful mineral deposits flowing through sandstone (a geologic phenomenon known as Liesegang banding). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553756553-CBROLCFF26HXVA26CUFV/f000252.jpg Recent Additions - Environmental Recycling Image code: #f000252 Eroded sandstone making its way down a slope of colorful clay. Although we think that the landscape is solid and unchanging, this is only because we are short-lived beings. The earth is constantly eroding and changing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553755269-M2FRPTV1JF6MNHIJH09L/dn001240.jpg Recent Additions - Constant Transition Image code: #dn0001240 Winter snow covering hills that were formerly deposits at the bottom of an ancient seas. The world is constantly changing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553753875-G4AAMXEVZTHDQTM0H0ML/dh000574.jpg Recent Additions - Winter Hope Image code: #dh000574 Juniper tree surrounded by a snow-covered desert landscape as light pierces through the clouds during a winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553763512-J368X6M7DPYAX9RHPDLH/f000968.jpg Recent Additions - Floor of the Sky Image code: #f000968 Low clouds fill a valley between an aspen grove and distant mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1671138813419-K89O7KIKU4B7LSDH6HSZ/f000868.jpg Recent Additions - A Quiet Corner Image code: #f000868 Pooled water and rippled mud remain in a shaded corner of a canyon after a flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1671138813475-47269KLZWB10A705E8QL/f000759.jpg Recent Additions - Hidden Entrance Image code: #f000759 Desert creek vanishes into a cavernous grotto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1671139299042-FPQQMBZEE0R1UVRTBMUQ/f000922.jpg Recent Additions - A Desert Dream Image code: #f000922 Desert creek carves its way through arid lands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702710176-NMCVAQMNSN22B7NWMLUY/f000887.jpg Recent Additions - Fallen Youth Image code: #f000887 A dead ponderosa pine sapling glows in a ray of winter sunlight. These trees, known to live for hundreds of years, are now declining in the American West and may be gone entirely from this region before the end of the century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702712578-6AY8L8FYBPPY9STMYXHN/f000917.jpg Recent Additions - Silent Exchange Image code: #f000917 A rock profile and the tip of a cottonwood tree share a narrow beam of sunlight for a few moments each winter morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702704760-Z2TJUHRKEU21LY9RHX6P/f000796.jpg Recent Additions - In Mourning Image code: #f000796 A dark forest of charred, dead ponderosa pines remain standing after a wildfire. These skeleton forests are becoming more common in the American West as the changing climate ravages forest lands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018801403-I7VZ31QWH6A7SIFXST4S/dl000444.jpg Recent Additions - Primordial Image code: #dl000444 Hazy sunlight reflecting among foam patterns below a small desert waterfall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018800207-39L91Q5NXBPM52WN07PD/di001964.jpg Recent Additions - The Sculptor at Work Image code: #di001964 A rare flow of water coming down a normally dry channel during a summer monsoon flash flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018800317-LQ3UW977Q73RC68IEALZ/dl000266.jpg Recent Additions - Glistening Image code: #dl000266 Hazy sunlight reflecting in shallow water flowing over a travertine formation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1664310343905-JAAESM20YED0CO43DKNV/dn000905.jpg Recent Additions - Beautiful Skeletons Image code: #dn000905 Snags of dead firs and ponderosa pines against a backdrop of young aspens in autumn color. This image was made about a decade after a fire burned this formerly forested mountain side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1664310343904-NX0QFE9TDMMGMNE1ONP3/dn000930.jpg Recent Additions - Blue Remnant Image code: #dn000930 Snag of a dead ponderosa pine lying among sagebrush and scrub oak in autumn color. This image was made about a decade after a major fire devastated this forested mountainside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1664310345247-QEB6HSJTH4NBL8BMOB2Y/f000797.jpg Recent Additions - Dancer on the Rim Image code: #f000797 Lone pinyon pine, bent and twisted, holds on to its perch on the rim of a deep canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1661274478356-N3VCF2DMVU24VCH4M4Q6/c000469.jpg Recent Additions - Balancing Act Image code: #c000469 I made this image (on 4x5 film) in the late 1990s. I found this place at the end of a long day’s drive, looking for a place to camp. At the time I didn't think much about sharing the beauty of such places with photographer friends. There were not many of us working in these places. It just so happened that the information got shared and re-shared until it ended up in a photo guidebook, and the place soon became reduced to yet another “photo hotspot” for traveling photographers to check off a list. It is unlikely anyone will ever again experience the thrill of discovering it anew, let alone be able to spend a few days there in solitude. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1661274478382-BDR9C75K1RHKN819F8IG/di001677.jpg Recent Additions - Gargoyle Image code: #di001677 In picking images for this round of updates, I sought nostalgic memories of places I discovered and spent solitary days in, steeped in beauty and silence, but where such experiences are no longer possible. Some of these places have become photographic hotspots. The experience of visiting them will never again be as I have known it. It saddens me to now that landscape photography, which to me has always ensued from love of wild places, has now become a destructive force for these places and the experiences they once harbored. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1661274479910-R2A1E9JJ1RBUGTT6IQU4/f000750.jpg Recent Additions - Celestial Traveler Image code: #f000750 Summing up the theme of images made in places that used to be anonymous and peaceful but no longer are, I now seek images such as this one: images that do not betray their location, composed such that they don’t become popular attractions and a risk to the welfare of the few places remaining where one may still find peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1658688234983-Y215A59CZD7M9PDDMJU8/e000189.jpg Recent Additions - Verdant Intersection Image code: #e000189 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1658688236615-55ZH9HH083JHY5UU0SC5/f000761.jpg Recent Additions - Destination Unknown Image code: #f000761 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1658688237586-PECFNPVUNG9IX3XDCHJ5/f000766.jpg Recent Additions - Edge of the World Image code: #f000766 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639855433988-8XIL35QXO0ALJ9PCVYGN/f000534.jpg Recent Additions - Hush Now Image code: #f000534 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639855436495-ENI4MT7LIVAIHTC4TWOJ/f000554.jpg Recent Additions - Restful Perch Image code: #f000554 An enormous polished rock perched above a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639855434507-F1EBGSNYCIDNVABZAX89/f000542.jpg Recent Additions - The Long Goodbye Image code: #f000542 Deposited by floods, there’s no telling how long the remains of this old juniper trees had been there, on the rim of a deep desert canyon. Perhaps years, perhaps decades or even centuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1670523226677-8QXNQBW0O5J15XQZS03I/dn000762.jpg Recent Additions - Basalt Kaleidoscope Image code: #dn000762 Basalt slot canyon covered in colorful moss and lichen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603043287264-H7S5HNJS15SDFU9II4R5/e000014.jpg Recent Additions - Airy Image code: #e000014 Soft veils of rain drifting over the landscape as a monsoon storm moves in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603045936356-KD8JFN9W4V7ZXGIEXF6Q/dn000724.jpg Recent Additions - Deer Heaven Image code: #dn000724 Deer grazing on new spring grasses on mountain slope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161612247-ZK33GVT0VTK3ZKDCLMB1/dn000071.jpg Recent Additions - Picassolithic Image code: #dn000071 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161625570-52XFNGMRZTH51DOKE6BS/dn001110.jpg Recent Additions - Celestiality Image code: #dn001110 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161611888-SW8VS1WW4ZU0FB637WSG/dn000073.jpg Recent Additions - Phoenix in Wait Image code: #dn000073 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1716302209202-MQ7F42IGHTEPKN17LEBD/g000174.jpg Recent Additions - If You Wish Image code: #g000174 Pagoda buckwheat plant on the rim of a desert hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1716302210128-YDS5WC4608L3YXQG39YA/g000175.jpg Recent Additions - Maybe There Image code: #g000175 Desert canyon corridor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773259276147-F3TVXTYMVG6KFQ7M718D/e000196.jpg Recent Additions - Desiccated Hydra Image code: #e000196 The skeletal remains of a desert holly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606067165986-SEZAKNUYY7HU70MR8PYS/dp000099.jpg Recent Additions - Broken Heart Image code: #dp000099 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606067396481-BOQP0IW3Q8NSJMXRAOUG/f000149.jpg Recent Additions - Traces Image code: #f000149 Deer hoof prints in a shallow layer of dry blue clay deposited by a canyon flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603047183717-1GJOMO4X6GAOJKFUPZZT/dn000822.jpg Recent Additions - Claynigma Image code: #dn000822 Cracked layer of light-colored mud deposited by a flood over an area of red sand, dotted with raindrop “craters.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639780187889-ZPZ3Q7T2MF24GE7COKGB/f000561.jpg Recent Additions - Edvard's Rock Image code: #f000561 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161666106-W4KA9439H563NQNW7P2Z/f000045.jpg Recent Additions - Rebirth Image code: #f000045 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375148903-ZVVCXXPIHAZ88EA3DQ6W/f000429.jpg Recent Additions - Desert Island Image code: #f000429 Desiccating shrub and moqui marbles temporarily holding onto a barren sheet of iron-rich sandstone. https://guytal.com/quaking-aspens daily 0.75 2025-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476841223-IUN43VAAJME1O0MUTWD8/c000112_4x5.jpg Quaking Aspens - Aspen Fall Tapestry Image code: #c000112 One of the ways aspen trees propagate is by growing new trees out of the roots of older ones, resulting in groups of genetically identical specimens, referred to as clonal colonies. Different trees turn at different times and trees that are genetically similar turn together. This phenomenon creates patches of color where different groups of trees in the grove change at different times. Colors range from bright green through fiery yellow and all the way to deep orange and pink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476841223-IUN43VAAJME1O0MUTWD8/c000112_4x5.jpg Quaking Aspens - Aspen Fall Tapestry Image code: #c000112 One of the ways aspen trees propagate is by growing new trees out of the roots of older ones, resulting in groups of genetically identical specimens, referred to as clonal colonies. Different trees turn at different times and trees that are genetically similar turn together. This phenomenon creates patches of color where different groups of trees in the grove change at different times. Colors range from bright green through fiery yellow and all the way to deep orange and pink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1640110919958-LHYHR34HQB8O9ABJ4SXQ/f000588.jpg Quaking Aspens - Pointillist Autumn Image code: #f000588 An array of colorful leaves as aspen trees turn in the autumn before shedding their foliage for the winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476863897-0N73K3GZ5FJ48UKLYPC9/c000117.jpg Quaking Aspens - Tracking the Lion Image code: #c000117 A mountain lion (cougar/puma) left these fresh tracks among fallen aspen leaves. For all the years I’ve been photographing in these places, this is the only time I saw a live mountain lion in the wild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476888698-K0O8PFDKGEUSJCSJCT65/c000402.jpg Quaking Aspens - Understory Tapestry Image code: #c000402 A storm the previous day blew these colorful leaves to the ground. Many have not yet fully turned and those that have were in various stages of decay resulting in a dazzling array of colors, patterns, and textures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476917206-1U8FMV288VW5BWGMJERA/de001383.jpg Quaking Aspens - Autumn Reflections Image code: #de001383 Aspen trees and dogwood bushes reflecting in a mountain lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476945549-1AKDNY7ZBFVVF7H0YLGV/dc000765.jpg Quaking Aspens - After the Big Show Image code: #dc000765 Aspen trees in late autumn, about to shed the last of their leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476971751-N067ZNIP52OMMCKJYAJ3/dc001143.jpg Quaking Aspens - Aspen Bolero Image code: #dc001143 Bracken ferns line the bottom of a grove of young aspen trees in the peak of autumn color. The curving trunks made me think of a slow sensuous dance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477001488-NMBRKC41B4L8Z6RNBES2/de001390.jpg Quaking Aspens - An Unlikely Convergence Image code: #de001390 Aspen trees growing against a red sandstone wall. The title refers to the fact that it’s very rare for aspen trees and sandstone to exist in the same place. Aspens generally grow at high elevation, while red sandstone generally is found in the lower, hotter, parts of the desert. This is the only place I know where red sandstone is found high enough so that aspen trees can grow in the same place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477026218-OX862BNH0XW32FLQRXPA/de001443.jpg Quaking Aspens - Foam Patterns and Aspen Leaves Image code: #de001443 Aspen leaves floating among intricate foam patters at the outlet of an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477855371-OJJC89VFJDQ54GS66MF0/dn000902.jpg Quaking Aspens - Life Recovers Image code: #dn000902 New foliage on aspen trees and snowberry bushes in dazzling autumn display among the skeletons of trees killed by wildfire years before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477077134-ZIT1V7CNULJTRE9T2DXZ/de001595.jpg Quaking Aspens - Whiteout Image code: #de001595 Small grove of aspens looms out of thick fog in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477049842-JQOP7EDITTVBO62ZRBD6/de001592.jpg Quaking Aspens - Wintry Pastels Image code: #de001592 Aspen trees, bare for the winter, atop a high desert plateau. The canyon country below, covered in thick fog, the peaks of desert mountains loom in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477206892-JLVMONNPP52BHFNQ2V1Q/de002953.jpg Quaking Aspens - The Arrival Image Code: #de002953 Aspen trees on the shore of a thawing lake. The spaceship-looking ovals are spots where the ice had melted faster thanks to underwater springs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477128459-OF5KE38ZFNKVE0PZIGD2/de002324.jpg Quaking Aspens - Blue Grove Image code: #de002324 Aspen boles in winter. Recently-dead trees turn a bright orange before drying up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477152253-6PWQ7TSJSNHAAVYSDJBT/de002322.jpg Quaking Aspens - Aspens, Filtered Light Image code: #de002322 Soft afternoon winter light filters through an old aspen grove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477882624-K8S0C4WI7ITPYRX2N7JL/di001952.jpg Quaking Aspens - Cold Fusion Image code: #di001952 Bare aspen trees in winter, covered in hoar frost from a passing storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477231825-X9A4NZ7UX9CHF5GU9ZRR/di000603.jpg Quaking Aspens - Misty Blues Image code: #di000603 Dormant aspen trees engulfed in wintry mist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477906557-MIIEWCXD9PH95WGUGYXQ/di001720.jpg Quaking Aspens - Inner Peace Image code: #di001720 Aspen trees in deep winter slumber in a clearing in a thick grove. Soft mist filled the grove as a calm winter storm passed through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1679707636823-973W3BGHTD666H4OEFWQ/di001783.jpg Quaking Aspens - Into the Mist Image code: #di001783 Aspen trees in winter fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477103014-5821Q7EBVH632ZDW48PN/de001995.jpg Quaking Aspens - Last Light at Camp Image code: #de001995 Aspen trees in spring, glowing in the last of the warm sunlight, seen from my campsite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477450314-4JNYP38JFYLQYNP3R0AM/dh000156_c.jpg Quaking Aspens - Autumn Kaleidoscope Image code: #dh000156 Aspen and dogwood grow among the Sierra Nevada granite boulders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477479507-X2P758DC4FIA0KU32YBI/di001086.jpg Quaking Aspens - Shadowplay Image code: #di001086 Aspen grove against a backdrop of the slope of a desert mountain, green with new growth as spring arrives and the last of the snow had melted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477502854-9VCWDSCUX8Q8F7FZ4J6O/di001196.jpg Quaking Aspens - Summer Eve Among the Aspens Image code: #di001196 Last light of the day, camping in a high-elevation aspen grove. In the summer months, these high groves provide shade and comfortable temperatures while the desert below bakes in the heat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477526694-JO5WV8IW3K2MUHDMVRM7/di001208.jpg Quaking Aspens - Early Autumn Storm Image code: #di001208 In these high sagebrush-covered plains, thunderstorms can be violent, but usually for short periods as storm cells wander around the landscapes. The light during such storms, on the other hand, can be profoundly peaceful and revitalizing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477551500-60HSCPJ3N5SWCP82I404/di001259.jpg Quaking Aspens - Meandering Headwaters Image code: #di001259 Gently making its way through a grassy alpine meadow, this creek will eventually become a desert river destined to travel some of the most scenic desert canyons on Earth before arriving at the Pacific Ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477584655-0GW94CCWLGO4NK8AL5K4/di001358.jpg Quaking Aspens - Winter Tapestry Image code: #di001358 Bare aspen trees against a backdrop of crimson-colored willows during an early snow storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477608152-W5J3QXJ9MDN72CJBM697/di001273.jpg Quaking Aspens - Winter Arrives Image code: #di001273 Last of the autumn foliage still clings to these young aspens as they prepare for the big sleep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477633127-XFVZTPKOOG8J44QP48Z8/di001619.jpg Quaking Aspens - Misty Aspens Image code: #di001619 Aspen trees in fog during spring rainstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477657944-MFOU8OQIQIR04K8QOQM7/di001667_c.jpg Quaking Aspens - First Flurries Image code: #di001667 First snow falling over aspen grove in autumn color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477687478-1QU97NEENLSX78H8T9XW/dl000079.jpg Quaking Aspens - Summer Ethereal Image code: #dl000079 Aspen grove in thick fog during a summer monsoon rainstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477710951-7GVPJQN1YI5XZ5MV2E2D/di001714.jpg Quaking Aspens - A Merging of Worlds Image code: #di001714 Aspen trees reflecting in alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477777048-JEPWNUMD7HPA1RRH4T37/dn000375.jpg Quaking Aspens - Fallen Comrade Image code: #dn000375 Fallen aspen tree, likely felled by avalanche, supported by its brethren. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477747890-PHD308R0VFQKQW5UO879/dn000042.jpg Quaking Aspens - Cold Embers Image code: #dn000042 Burned aspen snags lit by the low sun in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477801460-2O0TA2QK6NP39T64BSMF/dn000479.jpg Quaking Aspens - Quiet, Frosty Morning Image code: #dn000479 A cold autumn morning by an alpine beaver pond surrounded by aspen trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603043761393-X23SHOMLJK347ZAT1IZ4/dq000030.jpg Quaking Aspens - Verdant Awakening Image code: #dq000030 Vibrant new foliage on aspen trees growing in an alpine meadow. The last of winter’s snow still lines gullies in the steep slopes beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477828468-NJ5U5SYL7AG2T6VLTVZO/dn000410.jpg Quaking Aspens - Darkness Falls Image code: #dn000410 Young aspen tree catching the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477315078-M7CRG4S46FLCSHCK846D/di000376.jpg Quaking Aspens - Maplemorphosis Image code: #di000376 Yet-to-turn aspen trees mixed with maples in vibrant autumn display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477931409-H0L9H4P69PUVXXB7WZY8/di001888.jpg Quaking Aspens - Bare Minimum Image code: #di001888 A thick aspen grove reduced to thin, faded lines in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477955531-SUWCTVTY8HURNGOQZZH3/dc000275.jpg Quaking Aspens - Winter Haiku Image code: #dc000275 Red leaf on fresh snow Autumn is no longer here Sadness lies ahead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477287225-N1LGO7UEOF17ZTML97WM/de003193.jpg Quaking Aspens - Windswept Image code: #de003193 Testament to their tenacity, these stunted and wind-beaten little aspens grow on a precarious exposed promontory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603478029721-RT4W93KFL2NROXJJQ6A4/f000204.jpg Quaking Aspens Image code: #f000204 Last leaves adorn a lone aspen tree that has yet to shed its autumn coat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603478028933-DI3ECF36F0E4N4MEUWW8/f000192.jpg Quaking Aspens - Farewell Song Image code: #f000192 Last of the autumn leaves in an aspen grove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603478030987-VWY2O106JKBMKC45UIFZ/e000041.jpg Quaking Aspens - The Candy Store Image code: #e000041 Multicolored aspens in autumn display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477179042-KW9NZ55LGVJPAOFD92C0/de002024.jpg Quaking Aspens - Sapling in the Clouds Image code: #de002024 After a good rainy season, this aspen sapling sprouted at the edge of an alpine lake. In time, the water will recede back to its normal levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603479234844-8JJDHVV26GH2HG5EOV2J/f000158.jpg Quaking Aspens - Aspen Deconstructed Image code: #f000158 Bark and fallen aspen leaf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603479155075-MMUP7NT1NKFZIC8AMZFG/f000209.jpg Quaking Aspens - Towering Image code: #f000209 Tall aspen trees glowing in the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1650922737145-4FXNYL23C0XFCF7DK77H/f000577.jpg Quaking Aspens - Autumnal Awe Image code: #f000720 Aspen groves in vibrant autumn colors catching a last rays of sun before an evening storm moves in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1635269893843-57F58QSFV68X6RTW3FLO/f000452.jpg Quaking Aspens - Arboreal Embrace Image code: #f000452 Aspen tree trunks embracing each other against a lichen covered rock wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1640110886367-TXNPJ0VD1MWDB8BXAUJQ/f000588.jpg Quaking Aspens - Pointillist Autumn Image code: #f000588 Varied autumn colors in aspen trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970428569-YYQA43L1ISUFSPCUOK3S/f000204.jpg Quaking Aspens - Flickering Away Image code: #f000204 A small aspen tree growing among a thick forest of its brethren, holds on to its leaves for just a few more days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970428555-4RXYJ0BL138EWS4QDNRO/f000192.jpg Quaking Aspens - Farewell Song Image code: #f000192 Last of the golden foliage on mountain aspen. These leaves were mostly blown away by a passing storm the following evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970431739-LMFCSPALA37EAUL1PO4V/f000209.jpg Quaking Aspens - Tall Tales Image code: #f000209 These unusually tall aspen trees receive the last of the sunlight on a late autumn evening after a difficult season of drought. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603046225563-SL1Q4PNSHVFET9U2A960/dn000910.jpg Quaking Aspens - Courtship Image code: #dn000910 Aspen trees in a high mountain meadow, set against a backdrop of cloud shadows on a mountain slope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553763512-J368X6M7DPYAX9RHPDLH/f000968.jpg Quaking Aspens - Floor of the Sky Image code: #f000968 Low clouds fill a valley between an aspen grove and distant mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603043761393-X23SHOMLJK347ZAT1IZ4/dq000030.jpg Quaking Aspens - Verdant Awakening Image code: #dq000030 Vibrant new foliage on aspen trees growing in an alpine meadow. The last of winter’s snow still lines gullies in the steep slopes beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018805785-VVUI0LUWIQ4BC2B2L1K4/f000823.jpg Quaking Aspens - Only for a Moment Image code: #f000823 A momentary break in a large storm. Seconds after, this area was hit with a hailstorm that left a layer of hailstones on the ground 3-4” thick. Much of the colorful foliage was gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018806663-CJ6F6A3AVC04F1R11N09/f000824.jpg Quaking Aspens - So Long for Now Image code: #f000824 A final touch of sunlight on a small aspen grove before it was ravaged by a major hailstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018806778-UQOWAGL1OH9C7P3F8COD/f000825.jpg Quaking Aspens - A Grace Before the Storm Image code: #f000825 Last rays of sunlight caress a desert mountain slope as a heavy storm moves in. https://guytal.com/vegetative-states1 daily 0.75 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1554243931490-ZY3CL73MB6A6E6DEGEZ9/dc000351.jpg Vegetative States https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1554243931490-ZY3CL73MB6A6E6DEGEZ9/dc000351.jpg Vegetative States https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366024642-GY25OBHBS579MJQQG7GR/c000437.jpg Vegetative States - Summer is Over Image code: #c000437 These maple trees grow in a beautiful canyon. I spent hours walking among them looking for a composition that would express the feeling of yellow leaves hanging in the air like fireflies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366047157-V3WQ6JDLMP0FOTAWCOF2/dc000173.jpg Vegetative States - Time to Rest Image code: #dc000173 A colorful mat of fallen leaves covers the ground below a maple tree at the end of autumn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366068181-X08KF2K40CUPBZ9IU6RA/c000693.jpg Vegetative States - Frosted Corn Lilies Image code: #c000693 I first found frost-covered lilies a couple of years before making this image, and loved the way the ice accentuated their graceful lines, but could not find a good composition. I return to the same patch a few more times until about two years later, I found what I was looking for. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366089371-EL0UWCGRIHGX0AOBLP7N/dc000177.jpg Vegetative States - Colorful Recovery Image code: #dc000177 This area was burned in a wildfire a few years prior to making this photograph. Charred remains of scrub oaks still remain as new foliage sprouts at their bases. Life recovers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366108903-SN2A7IJ9P6AA4MNEGAF8/dc000500.jpg Vegetative States - Colors of Winter Image code: #dc000500 Willow and rabbitbrush add a splash of color to dormant cottonwoods trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366173891-MYFUUF8AXTJG4BS0XUWC/dc000178.jpg Vegetative States - Autumn Coat Image code: #dc000178 Maple trees begin to turn as autumn arrives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366282999-ER13U4D3Z2IIGQWRBT8O/de001352.jpg Vegetative States - Leaves and Grass Image code: #de001352 Fallen aspen leaves among wind-sculpted grasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367100173-BEO4041PF9QX672VY9OF/dc000712.jpg Vegetative States - Rooster Tails Image code: #dc000712 Colorful grasses in an alpine meadow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366220854-4XQPHEN17VD7JP992YJE/de000446.jpg Vegetative States - Glimmer Image code: #de000446 Last rays of light filtering through desert brush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366334094-UK6AULGFYTCN1EA58MCM/de001766.jpg Vegetative States - Emergence Image code: #de001766 Young cottonwoods grow among a willow thicket along a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366451571-Q2IWABVFUPNYD0QBT4RC/de001982.jpg Vegetative States - Forest Camo Image code: #de001982 Thick grove of alder trees covered in moss and lichen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366481950-07FG3ND7AN4TIJ3NFTSI/de002456.jpg Vegetative States - Silent Flames Image code: #de002456 A quiet winter moment with dormant cottonwood, willow, and tamarisk trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366503876-X1OYBF322UHLSEOOTQ38/di000307.jpg Vegetative States - The Little Things Image code: #di000307 Sunlight filtering through a patch of grama grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366525792-FDM2VCEH4VOUF26IXFJ3/di000309.jpg Vegetative States - Silent Fireworks Image code: #di000309 Early morning light filters through rice grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366553757-4Q0WUZLU5ZFGXANA29JX/di000311.jpg Vegetative States - Morning Bliss Image code: #di000311 Early morning light filters through dew-covered grama grasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366580122-S2NA0KSCY8UMDYCIDQA0/di000322.jpg Vegetative States - In Memoriam Image code: #di000322 The skeleton of an old cedar that died in a wildfire, against a backdrop of young maples and oaks starting to fill the scorched earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366660645-XXOCN72P13TU2WFNYC4E/di001127.jpg Vegetative States - Autumn Shroud Image code: #di001127 Oaks reclaiming their former glory several years after a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366610780-JR8UXA3BOUT65WPXGLTA/di000376.jpg Vegetative States - Maplemorphosis Image code: #di000376 Yet-to-turn aspen trees mixed with maples in vibrant autumn display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366691314-FE3Z5DFTL3I47DQB77NZ/di001293.jpg Vegetative States - Autumn Aura Image code: #di001293 Late fall among the willows and aspens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366823618-DC3NJ89AATCQ8LLLEIJO/di001522.jpg Vegetative States - Early Signs Image code: #di001522 Small buds on cottonwood trees signal the arrival of spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366749685-G8T7B4KSKWBDWR1XK4TH/di001359.jpg Vegetative States - Let It Storm Image code: #di001359 Aspens and willows welcome an early snow shower. Soon, a thick white blanket will erase most color until the following spring. Caption inspired by this passage by Hermann Hesse: "Say yes to everything, shirk nothing, don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen, you are not a Greek, you are not harmonious, or the master of yourself, you are a bird in the storm. Let it storm!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366798314-PPTQU18X1R65DAQISRUQ/di001601.jpg Vegetative States - Lost Souls Image code: #di001601 Scrub oaks dusted with early spring snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366942118-2Z6716T58VNM0SCOK4AZ/dn000936.jpg Vegetative States - Remembrance Image code: #dn000936 A snowberry bush in bright autumn color at the feet of the fallen remains of an old pinyon pine that died in a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366853074-J5JBJ2XOS40D7KOPLU05/di001866.jpg Vegetative States - Untangled Bloom Image code: #di001866 Sand Verbena in bloom, growing around the remnants of a dead creosote bush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366877080-HOVXLYEVQUSXHSLXARZ8/dn000193.jpg Vegetative States - Creekside Tapestry Image code: #dn000193 Desert plants in a flood basin along a small creek, in winter colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366906448-YOXPZXI0QWFV4N48NE72/dn000195.jpg Vegetative States - Intricacy Image code: #dn000195 Desert brush showing its true colors in winter time when plants are dormant and not producing chlorophyll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367181292-5NTCZ43T5298K152BVW3/di001630.jpg Vegetative States - Winter is Over Image code: #di001630 Cottonwoods and willows reawakening in early spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367028451-3SQ205TQLRXC99QA7MW6/do000048.jpg Vegetative States - Ash and Lichen Tapestry Image code: #do000048 Ash tree in autumn color against a sandstone wall textured with various lichens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367082972-6BYETDF0WCLUIA4U1DFB/dc000611.jpg Vegetative States - Oaks Rejuvenated Image code: #dc000611 The charred remains of oaks burned in a wildfire, remain standing as new growth sprouts at their bases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367126468-VBGLR3U943PMEG3DT6NB/di001128.jpg Vegetative States - Colorful Rest Image code: #di001128 The skeleton of a ponderosa pine, surrounded by new growth of scrub oak several years after a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366976693-1XKYERT7KLY50ZVNNGYW/dp000028.jpg Vegetative States - Piliferous Poppy Image code: #dp000028 Close look at a rare bear poppy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614368924279-62GHRXGC9F3RJOA3YMXN/dn001092.jpg Vegetative States - Poppy Dream Image code: #dn001092 Bear poppy abstract. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603044721398-2OG341PTD4WL8BCLYIS6/dp000089.jpg Vegetative States - Unfurling Image code: #dp000089 A close look at a rare Bear Poppy plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614369375376-CRK58UTO6K4GIP8YG3ET/f000023.jpg Vegetative States - Shadow Dancer Image code: #f00023 The skeleton of a small juniper tree catching the last sunray’s of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366248038-GKQ46TLDBA1MFTRXZ2WV/de000513.jpg Vegetative States - Ghost Image code: #de000513 An old spruce tree that fell victim to bark beetle infestation, caused by climate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614369376001-8CJJ0575EXX7AYEFU6NG/f000262.jpg Vegetative States - Winter Candle Image code: #f000262 Small dormant cottonwood still bearing some dry remnants of last year's leaves, catching the last of the sunlight against a dark canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366198796-2JEH8XCYS0U3RTOGX28F/de000635.jpg Vegetative States - Stained Glass Image code: #de000635 Fallen autumn leaves trapped under a layer of ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367147845-YSZG4R3WQTNTM4Q5DECJ/c001038.jpg Vegetative States - Rare Gift Image code: #c001038 This was a large shallow pool the day before. Overnight, temperatures hovered around freezing, and in the morning I found these beautiful fallen maple and oak leaves captured in a layer of paper-thin ice. The ice melted within a couple of hours as the sun lit the canyon bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367055998-0334K21CIF7QGF0X9NIX/di001273.jpg Vegetative States - Winter Arrives Image code: #di001273 Last of the autumn foliage still clings to young aspens as they prepare for the big sleep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614369649338-2BK9UBEA0MB6B5C4PUCA/dn001204.jpg Vegetative States - Reclamation Image code: #dn001204 Buckwheat plants repopulating an area after a fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366724863-J2CZ6SQZVHIYOESMGQDV/di001435.jpg Vegetative States - Inner Space Image code: #di001435 Winter sun illuminates a patch of desert trumpet plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614369767604-G9E5XVFIDT0MVMHI3A7A/f000292.jpg Vegetative States - Christmas Creosote Image code: #f000292 Small creosote bush covered in seed pods, looks festive right around the Christmas holiday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366636178-27BR0HS3S6XFSIQ0TMJC/di001223.jpg Vegetative States - Illuminated Tips Image code: #di001223 Sagebrush catching the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366310028-PV6NXMDLHBGPXEM08CKC/de000547.jpg Vegetative States - The Graceful Dead Image code: #de000547 Last of the maple foliage clinging on before the next big storm strips the tree bare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614369871550-JV4L05YCNUHNZIGVFJMR/f000315.jpg Vegetative States - Winter Breath Image code: #f000315 Cholla growing among creosote bushes glows in the light of a late winter afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614370024394-D3RO3RLUPFPN88O7JYKB/f000153.jpg Vegetative States - Farewell to a Season Image code: #f000153 Scrub oak leaves in autumn colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614370021917-ZRE3C0PBHT20PMDO4E9B/f000140.jpg Vegetative States - Any Moment Now Image code: #f000140 Last of the autumn leaves clings to scrub oaks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614370023147-KKAYVL31H5QX4CUPDDKU/f000141.jpg Vegetative States - Scrub Oak Diorama Image code: #f000141 A rainbow of autumn colors rendered in pastels in a small grove of scrub oaks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614370311540-W2JLGS6S81LMJK6XCPN8/f000288.jpg Vegetative States - Winter Calm Image code: #f000288 A cholla cactus glowing in the afternoon light of a quiet winter day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614370427636-SFX07K0BLDURHD7176RW/f000275.jpg Vegetative States - Goodnight Stretch Image code: #f000275 Cholla cactus glowing in early evening light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614370311776-G36ZCV1051L6K357CNWM/e000164.jpg Vegetative States - Almost Bedtime Image code: #e000164 Cholla and rabbitbrush glowing in the last light of an early spring evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629514814255-TPXXS99FXALP532GCQ9S/di001036.jpg Vegetative States - Devils in the Details Image code: #di001036 A thriving patch of high-desert plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603198164744-EGAITE7M92N3TG7YAATL/di001771.jpg Vegetative States - Ponderosa in Blue Image code: #di001771 Ponderosa pines covered in hoar frost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970425061-SEQ0NX13XD30TU0PMD3K/f000150.jpg Vegetative States - Iridescent Chaos Image code: #f000150 “Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world, I feel colored by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.” ~Paul Cezanne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1653238757755-KQKJRFU8GAJ7FYECL4K4/f000734.jpg Vegetative States - Personality Disorder Image code: #f000734 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1653238756121-0BWDPI95HBGI7U7ABIUX/f000666.jpg Vegetative States - Endangered Bouquet Image code: #f000666 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1653238755495-G0YI76ICJHHDNFYRMUUQ/f000301.jpg Vegetative States - The Struggle Begins Image code: #f000301 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1651083506400-I0L7BT11DK2QI3K0QNR7/f000699.jpg Vegetative States - End of our Errors Image code: #f000699 Amaranth bushes glowing as faint light filters through a forest of recently burned ponderosa pines. This image is part of my ongoing project to visit areas affected by wildfires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1643051954896-UER325Z62BSLXEWHOUGZ/f000574.jpg Vegetative States - Forest Elegy Image code: #f000574 Goldenrods and buckwheats rise out of the ashes of a burned ponderosa pine forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1651083508675-UW1SPQE955W82ABWV4Z2/f000700.jpg Vegetative States - Mourning Light Image code: #700 Amaranth bushes glowing as faint light filters though a forest of recently burned ponderosa pines. This image is part of my ongoing project to visit areas affected by wildfires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639780668128-7M4YX79AQFSSMOGR52AG/f000584.jpg Vegetative States - Reclamation Image code: #f000584 Vibrant new foliage of gambel oaks rises from among charred skeletons after the previous summer’s fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1651083506776-02Y0U4AQ0PG85RX2VC1U/di001281.jpg Vegetative States - Among the Skeletons Image code: #di001281 Gambel oaks in autumn color reclaim a mountainside covered in ponderosa pines that had burned in a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639780666033-BZO7WPUAN1LVHYTFIT9K/f000576.jpg Vegetative States - Revival Image code: #f000576 Gambel oaks in vibrant autumn color reclaim a hillside burned in a summer wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1679853341351-BEIZCJJX2U2MVQ7PDCI0/f000767.jpg Vegetative States - Remnants Image code: #f000767 Fallen pinyon pine cones among dead sagebrush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161667295-9T82FHQ302OSD764X7C1/f000067.jpg Vegetative States - Between a Rock and a Hard Place Image code: #f000067 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639780186436-IOF9FBIABL4RY2ZWACDM/dl000426.jpg Vegetative States - Vincent's Tree Image code: #dl000426 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1738343698771-686OKKM9GD6NO7KBF2LY/de000470.jpg Vegetative States - Autumn Mosaic Image code: #de000470 Aspen and maple trees in autumn color. https://guytal.com/the-good-badlands1 daily 0.75 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069327846-4VAA4TI3P76VQ0GYLNDD/de000970.jpg The Good Badlands - Streaming Colors Image code: #de000970 Colorful blooms bring to life a desert alluvial fan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069327846-4VAA4TI3P76VQ0GYLNDD/de000970.jpg The Good Badlands - Streaming Colors Image code: #de000970 Colorful blooms bring to life a desert alluvial fan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1554222553087-XOIC7BUV8NUZM2JL1GJL/dc000694.jpg The Good Badlands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069251880-WIQEE9NEU9Y6YUHSE0YQ/dn000968.jpg The Good Badlands - Alien Tree Image code: #dn000968 Solitary cottonwood tree in autumn coat in an other-worldly landscape of desert badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069297445-11EDLOL1LCIJMY0CGHLW/dc001087.jpg The Good Badlands - Aglow Image code: #dc001087 Sliver of morning sunlight paints a desert butte in golden hues before storm clouds close in again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069148871-91JMNXNQIV7JX0YCMWMM/dc000694.jpg The Good Badlands - Survivor Image code: #dc000694 Shadscale plant reaching through the cracks for what little moisture and nutrients it can find in the dry desert floor, defying the odds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069351375-I8QCXP6KPG02SQZKWYEI/de000226.jpg The Good Badlands - Radiant Pastels Image code: #de000226 The faint glow of pre-dawn light brings to life the delicate pastels in a slope of clay desert badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069378176-XO84P6EQHN4R20HWAUFN/de000253.jpg The Good Badlands - Future Fossil Image code: #de000253 A skull half-sunk in solid clay. With each rare rainfall, it will sink a little deeper and after that may never reach the surface again. Or, it may become fossilized and some day, perhaps millions of years from now, be revealed to other eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069405111-KE9TZVE8MJ7I59UD3ZJP/de000916.jpg The Good Badlands - First Blooms Image code: #de000916 Purple scorpionweed flowers, and a single yellow bee plant, emerge from cracked desert ground after years of waiting for rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069432856-LCGMH58KZ2I8RIYMKWET/de000996.jpg The Good Badlands - Badlands in Bloom Image code: #de000996 Purple scorpionweed flowers in a desert wash. This phenomenon occurs only once every few years. At the time of writing, it has been nearly a full decade since the last bloom of this magnitude. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069472996-NQFZO22H5VJ4O20FKWVL/de001035.jpg The Good Badlands - Rare Beauty Image code: #de001035 Most other times, this area is an arid plain of cracked earth where few hardy shrubs barely survive. On rare occasions, perhaps once in a decade if not longer, when conditions are right, dormant seeds burst out in a stunning display of flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069498327-GEI35UEP5QKDTJZU9U09/de002594.jpg The Good Badlands - Desolate Perch Image code: #de002594 Lonesome raven surveys a surreal landscape of painted hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069524235-CCQSUA1MBG1IVO55MS9Y/de002647.jpg The Good Badlands - Verdant Defiance Image code: #de002647 Hardy shadscale plants manage to survive in an area once known by its early Mormon settlers as, The Baddest of the Badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069550545-GYRNHSNNETJCXUKRJ6YK/de002644.jpg The Good Badlands - Earthly Delights Image code: #de002644 Swaths of colorful clay, sandstone, and shale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069574734-HGI0SSFPYKBBTSV2V9XY/dg000065.jpg The Good Badlands - Desert Jigsaw Puzzle Image code: #dg000065 Cracked drying mud on desert floor. The gradation in color indicate level of moisture still remaining in each piece (they dry from the outside in). Recent raindrops dotted the clay with small impact-craters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069599995-QL124XCVZU2EW9YV1A02/de003169.jpg The Good Badlands - Blue Grit Image code: #de003169 Mineral-rich hill of textured bentonite clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069684506-6IBGM7HUQ0UBIILAPD88/dg000062.jpg The Good Badlands - Clay Calligraphy Image code: #dg000062 Deep cracks in desert floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069716594-Y80OE9OMLONSCQV414IE/de002739.jpg The Good Badlands - Fluted Flanks Image code: #de002739 Layers of ancient clay revealed in eroded cliff face. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069829437-FEIP1TCWOTN7O37V3MB7/dh000490.jpg The Good Badlands - Illuminated Ridges Image code: #dh000490 Ridges of the blue hills, dusted in snow, glow in the cold light of winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069851880-A17W5VSU5UB0G6FNLP57/di000872.jpg The Good Badlands - Ancient Flow Image code: #di000872 Eroded ancient sea bed, now arid desert badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069922686-GZHRQ4VXR6LE46F5RGKO/di000968.jpg The Good Badlands - Into the Blue Image code: #di000968 Eroded slopes of blue bentonite clay, large enough to dwarf large sandstone boulders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069949477-NNZUTTVIDT6L2FPEQJSU/di001117.jpg The Good Badlands - Do Not Disturb Image code: #di001117 Clay badlands are fairly soft. Being dry almost year-round, footprints and tire tracks may leave lasting marks. The proper way to wander in these places is in the narrow washes among the hills, which are first to get smoothed out with any precipitation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069974316-57WMIBYEZO920XCZMZZ2/di001578.jpg The Good Badlands - Timelines Image code: #di001578 Alluvial drainage patterns in clay badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070001401-AOPYPNMI3NE4RZNU8R2G/di001572.jpg The Good Badlands - Evening Falls Image code: #di001572 This is the view from what used to be one of my favorite campsites, where I have never seen another person for a period of about fifteen years. Today, it is a popular spot among photographers and the solitude is gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070029001-WKMBI44PPG5DROYHOF3Y/di001577.jpg The Good Badlands - Convolutions Image code: #di001577 Convoluted alluvial patterns and buttes in clay badlands. Once a remote and unknown place where one could spend days in solitude, now becoming rapidly popular in the age of online sharing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070051093-MPMKYMB9HEFN52SUYZG8/di000958.jpg The Good Badlands - Undulations Image code: #di000958 Sedimented clay, once the bottom of an ancient sea, now desert badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070075676-39T61WN2ZJINPVQDVCAT/di001582.jpg The Good Badlands - Launch Pad Image code: #di001582 The view from the edge of a sandstone shelf above a vast area of badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070098525-LYBD0ZI3EI3KUVK06LTB/di001614.jpg The Good Badlands - As the Crow Flies Image code: #di001614 Soft light meandering among eroded desert hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070122123-3FCCCY0YYD42JKZLZRZG/di001606.jpg The Good Badlands - Dignity of Light Image code: #di001606 Gentle light in the blue desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070142712-96DBRS9R1IQ9PJFXUJNX/di001832.jpg The Good Badlands - Life, Just Barely Image code: #di001832 An unusually cold winter day in the badlands. Very rarely visited, even in other times, it is unlikely that many people ever witnessed the cold desolation of winter in these places. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070172381-9OB70E6W4683AD40Z1W2/di001591.jpg The Good Badlands - Rolling Stones Image code: #di001591 Broken sandstone boulders strewn along an eroded clay slope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070197666-46XJ0KTGSATSQK94RH9I/di001838.jpg The Good Badlands - Desolate Peace Image code: #di001838 An unusually cold and foggy winter day in the badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070222873-B32XNC1G4Y6OJNHYYOUD/dn000126.jpg The Good Badlands - A Day of Rest Image code: #dn000126 Desert butte glows in early morning light after an overnight snow storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070251750-IQPWQKLCRRZOR6EKCOVP/di001917.jpg The Good Badlands - Tumblers Image code: #di001917 Large caprock boulders making their way down an eroding slope of bentonite clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070277396-NH8BRVFVXSHHCUT3HOYE/dn000123.jpg The Good Badlands - Resting Place Image code: #dn000123 Desert badlands under a blanket of fresh snow, viewed from a lofty sandstone ledge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070304031-QGMHEA6WHGI335904CMW/dn000146.jpg The Good Badlands - Winter Minuet Image code: #dn000146 Dormant cottonwood trees engulfed in wintry fog, looking like they are swaying to music only they can hear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070328873-RPQY8XSYJ1T5YO2R895U/dn000277.jpg The Good Badlands - Timelessness Image code: #dn000277 Eroded badlands, formerly deposits from the bottom of an ancient shalow sea. I remember fondly the days before this place was “discovered” in recent years. At the time, you could camp on this ledge for days, and it was nearly inconceivable that another person would show up—a place of peace and a perfect setting for contemplation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070351576-P38W5CG5QID0R9EXU2XX/dn000167.jpg The Good Badlands - Winter Cascade Image code: #dn000167 Fresh snow fills the grooves of an eroded desert slope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070384024-7TYCAHMK59XDZCIYVKP0/dn000512.jpg The Good Badlands - Purple Pathway Image code: #dn000512 Small shadscale shrubs persist in a small wash in mineral-rich clay hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070409276-6UZGFJ64CK6WN6H9V94E/dn000520.jpg The Good Badlands - Pillowy Pathways Image code: #dn000520 Desert mountains covered in snow loom above a landscape of pink desert clay hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070440654-2Y46V8UXDZDPMQK0BLXY/dn000712.jpg The Good Badlands - Gentle Erosion Image code: #dn000712 Sandstone boulders making their way down an eroded clay hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070466377-30MON2G9RGXB8XTPSYLH/dn000713.jpg The Good Badlands - Skeletal Remains Image code: #dn000713 The skeletons of juniper trees remain standing, sometimes for decades after their death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070490304-9BIXZLMA9ARK5JPSK452/dq000043.jpg The Good Badlands - Life on Mars Image code: #dq000043 Shadscale plants emerge in an alluvial wash carved in red clay, after recent rains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070746740-WD47S9QIMTXDFXYU426W/e000013.jpg The Good Badlands - Path of Water and Light Image code: #e000013 First light illuminating an alluvial wash in clay badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070802749-RTUXGY24Q4FT00MLS7SG/e000066.jpg The Good Badlands - Early Glow Image ID: #e000066 Early sunlight ignites colorful desert plants among clay hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070826038-KLIUUB85RF96ITMW2RMK/e000062.jpg The Good Badlands - Getting Late Image ID: #e000062 Late afternoon light casts shadows on desert plants growing among clay hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070863362-S75BJLOFRUAQ722UO24W/e000063.jpg The Good Badlands - Home Colors Image ID: #e000063 "I am not that presumptuous to think I could speak or paint or write the natural history of my home colors. I know only that they are to blame for intent and motion, for an asymmetrical journey of wonder and of trouble. Light can run a person’s time and moods; it can explain everything." ~Ellen Meloy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070893402-CZEX4FYHMN7V638WBTJN/e000090.jpg The Good Badlands - Herringbone Hills Image ID: #e000090 Clay hills tinted with colorful minerals, form a herringbone pattern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070922419-B0QB36UYJTYZPG4I9B3G/e000108.jpg The Good Badlands - Resting Sea Image ID: #e000108 Once a seabed, now colorful undulating hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070951917-RDG6JK1YF6H8ZKMUSGV3/e000064.jpg The Good Badlands - Kind of Blue Image ID: #e000064 Clay slopes tinted in blue and purple minerals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070991532-TJ19HSEHBGUBIUBCJFXR/dn001156.jpg The Good Badlands - Just Add Water Image ID: #dn001156 A rare bloom of yellow beeplant among the badlands, after some well-timed rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594071017890-B1FHXCNAAWNLSZ2F2XDW/e000065.jpg The Good Badlands - Still Mighty Image ID: #e000065 A larghe section of an ancient fossilized tree rests over mineral-rich clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1599505571214-XKNEVFH17430M1TCUPMY/dn001149.jpg The Good Badlands - Gilded Path Image ID: #dn001149 Beeplant flowers along an alluvial channel in the badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592162145884-PB75PXC8YN3I68FFP2SS/f000002.jpg The Good Badlands - Unpatriotic Image code: #f000002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592162145886-26R8J25SH6IRKFY4FU09/f000014.jpg The Good Badlands - Velvestial Image code: #f000014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161628891-2I0U5XKUJAPRCEYT8F2L/f000001.jpg The Good Badlands - Scalloped Edges Image code: #f000001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1599507235638-AB1XHDK8PDESRCFX69LT/dh000653.jpg The Good Badlands - The Profound Silence Image ID: #dh000653 “All profound things and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.” ~Herman Melville https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616260430205-MII3ZOF9WF2MOVQAXD07/dl000189.jpg The Good Badlands - The Divine Soil Image code: #dl000189 This then is life, Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions. How curious! how real! Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun. ~Walt Whitman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616260430650-ZCH6862BCH97LSKBP716/e000171.jpg The Good Badlands - Despite It All Image code: #e000171 That some, trees or humans, thrive where others see only “bad” lands, “bad” situations, “bad” light, is testament for both the tenacity of those who thrive and for the lack of imagination of those who don’t. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970415313-O575ZT67Z8G24IQ0WB03/f000108.jpg The Good Badlands - Out of Space, Out of Time Image code: #f000108 “By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule — From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE — out of TIME.” ~Edgar Allan Poe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970417225-YZNGPY76YHTHI8FX26P9/f000131.jpg The Good Badlands - Lamentation Image code: #f000131 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970416837-D6PRP1CE34YQ1LKO4GO8/f000109.jpg The Good Badlands - A Seeker's Dream Image code: #f000109 Distant desert places touched by storm light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603043609271-031QCNMT6EEJ3JKGUFH1/dn001178.jpg The Good Badlands - Heart of the Desert Image code: #dn001178 Fracture patterns in frozen and cracked mud, in a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639780186093-MCRR59ENHHEUO4XLNZ1N/dl000407.jpg The Good Badlands - Petrified Flame Image code: #dl000407 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1679851530226-FSWOPLE5BKEZWHGDSKB5/f001030.jpg The Good Badlands - Funneled Image code: #f001030 Blocks of sandstone caprock making their way down a wash among clay hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1693661597340-4H4Q8WPKK6B2OVK0WXH3/dn000447.jpg The Good Badlands - Recorded History Image ID: #dn000477 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1692714873020-52TSYLVN8DQXOMPKTLFP/dn000445.jpg The Good Badlands - Maybe Tomorrow Image ID: #dn000445 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1692714874733-UPHPXO3BZFV1YO57IHYL/dn000448.jpg The Good Badlands - Empty Stage Image ID: #dn000448 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1738343702398-L7RYH2IG5UDH11D229F4/g000228.jpg The Good Badlands - Fluid Dynamics Image code: #g000228 The sandy footprints of a wild bobcat on a frozen, icy winter pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1738343698180-95VXD66R1KGVTIHP6VGI/dn000172.jpg The Good Badlands - Frozen Geometry Image code: #dn000172 Ice patterns reflecting red lights in a desert canyon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1738343700396-O7X2STT8QWNTA6BAM3LO/dn001237.jpg The Good Badlands - Event Horizon Image code: #dn001237 The shape of these ice patterns made me think of the edge of a black hole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1716302206489-NJK8ET9JSFZCZ0XTUOIV/di002056.jpg The Good Badlands - Yes, For Now Image code: #di002056 Errant shaft of light illuminating a surreal landscape of desert hills. This was once a place where one could spend days in quiet solitude, watching the light. Now it has become a busy photo checklist destination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705096163427-FCOH3HH9WSLYRBFBPQ8N/di001841.jpg The Good Badlands - Winter Dream Image code: #di001841 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705096167095-J431MO0YUFEYUB5UZVCD/g000152.jpg The Good Badlands - Alien Forest Image code: #g000152 https://guytal.com/sandstone-worlds2 daily 0.75 2023-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475019453-ODWY0DS4TCH8C1U591IO/do000092.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Geologic Surrealism Image code: #do000092 Sandpaper plant growing out of a crack in wildly colored Jurassic sandstone. Water pockets in the rock filled by recent rains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475019453-ODWY0DS4TCH8C1U591IO/do000092.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Geologic Surrealism Image code: #do000092 Sandpaper plant growing out of a crack in wildly colored Jurassic sandstone. Water pockets in the rock filled by recent rains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475046554-FONEAP1N6AP722WM9W79/dn001011.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Dream Within A Dream Image code: #dn001011 “Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.” ~Edgar Allan Poe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475078613-1YEEBIZ7GXHE8P0TSRHM/dn000663.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Sandstone Sketch Image code: #dn000663 Sandpaper plant growing in a crack in colorful Jurassic sandstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475118630-N8W49WZ6BMDAJ3FUTK4V/dn001031.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Psychotropic Sandstone Image code: #dn001031 Deposits of iron and manganese paint psychedelic patterns in a colorful sandstone alcove. If you look closely, you may find an ancient petroglyph of a bighorn sheep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475162111-XZSF54I3R2S9CR9EUFDH/dn000981.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Change of Pace Image code: #dn000981 Row of trees in autumn color growing along a creek in a steep desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475200806-2A07E7FJ7FWFCDG57V0K/dn001043.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Flowing Rock Image code: #dn001043 Colorful layered sandstone sculpted and smoothed by eons of floods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475234623-FNMGAXAENT1TPYJZDVAG/c001253.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Late Autumn in the Canyon Image code: #c001253 A canyon floor covered in fallen yellow maple leaves after the autumn season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475265586-GL0UXPVX78AJV81RSR0J/c000239.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Striped Slot Image code: #c000239 Looking out into a narrow slot canyon. This place has now become known and popular, but at the time I made this photograph it was little known and had no marked trail. I remember the exposure, on 4x5 film, took eight minutes, as I sat ther equietly admiring the peace and the beautiful glow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475295991-WE0QT9BFUHTBDSEZOFT8/c001070.jpg Sandstone Worlds - The Next Turning Image code: #c001070 “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you—beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.” ~Edward Abbey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475680127-VQS2ZT0F1OJDDX0G9NUX/de001915.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Variation on a Rhapsody Image code: #de001915 Elegant swirls of eroded sandstone. The title refers to a former image I titled, “Rhapsody in Sandstone.” In time, I came to like the variation better than the original. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475395423-YSW7LL5BD3VKKWHY2OIA/de001916.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Speed of Silence Image code: #de001916 Sandstone eroded by wind, leaving thin delicate shelves of the layers that were a bit harder to erode than others. Despite the strong lines and intense colors, at that moment I had the place to myself and it was as perfectly still and quiet as you can imagine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475317279-9YRO6RZ6SN96DKMJO8ZC/dc000242.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Petrified Velvet Image code: #dc000242 The warm glow of reflected light in the narrows of a slot canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475470714-D0SB9CPZQKHDIARIOCBC/di001313.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Waterlines Image code: #di001313 Variance in the coloring and texture of the bottom of a canyon wall tells the stories of different periods in the canyon’s recent past. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475367935-NH6AUDDT9JWN40FJHE9Z/dc000487.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Hidden Autumn Image code: #dc000487 Small boxelder tree rooted in a canyon wall, in golden autumn foliage. The person who told me about this place swore me to secrecy. It is within walking distance of a small town, and this creek is its only water source. Walking alone in this narrow channel, the sound of gurgling water echoing off the walls, was a peaceful and beautiful experience, and is among my most cherished memories. I’ve had the pleasure of having this place to myself a few times over a period of a few years. Today, it is a well-known attraction, and the town developed a paid parking area for it. I doubt one can walk alone in this canyon on any autumn day, anymore. Some say that such places become popular for a reason. That is true. It’s also true that some keep them secret for a reason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475531373-36KUCEZFQMXM1QYWXUTV/de002230.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Dawn Above the Canyon Image code: #de002230 A pristine sandstone canyon filled with green after a good monsoon rain season. This was my morning view, sipping coffee shortly after waking up in my camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475562011-OIZ1VCUVU9OK01FCNZA7/de003185.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Depth Perception Image code: #de003185 This is a single exposure. I could describe what you are looking at, but I would rather not. I think the mystery is much more enjoyable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475589790-Z9WFTJRG2TQQW91V1DPI/dh000671.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Seasonal Effect Image code: #dh000671 Fir trees growing on a high ledge in a deep canyon, dusted in remnants of a light snowfall the previous night. Spring season in the high desert is never predictable. Those who spend time alone in in these places, during this season, must be prepared for nearly any kind of weather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475620381-0ZY7OGAZBVXZFGM30GP4/di000250.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Monumental Eve Image code: #di000250 I arrived at my campsite, a short walk away from this view of the canyon of one of the Colorado Plateau’s largest desert rivers, in the afternoon. A monsoon thunderstorm was building up, and soon after building camp I had to stay in for about an hour as the mesa I was on was hit with torrential rain and lightning strikes. Although I did not know it at the time, the storm had washed away parts of the long dirt road I drove in on, and I was stranded. Road crews arrived late the following morning and took most of the day to make the road drivable again. I didn’t know any of this until I drove out two days later and realized the road had been re-graded, and deep ruts still remained, marked with red cones. Anyone traveling these roads during monsoon season should be prepared and carry sufficient supplies for at least a couple of days (and in some places, where roads are not maintained, an emergency beacon). As the storm passed, shortly before sunset, I was sitting on a rock admiring this view with a glass of tequila in my hand. Realizing the beauty that was slowly unfolding, I left the glass on the rock and walked back to get my camera. Not only was I alone, as far as I could see or hear, but because of the storm damage, nobody could have driven in even if they wanted to. A world to myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606067052461-I4STI3ONIOYT3YMO061W/di000296.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Tantalizing Waters Image code: #di000296 A pool of crystalline fresh rainwater nestled in a pocket on the edge of a high mesa, overlooking the arid desert below. One desert plant found the perfect balance of an abundant water source and a secure patch of soil to set root in. Just beyond it is a spectacular drop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628882086277-BYCYOY4IO3TNE8VOHMUO/f000137.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Rock Enigma Image code: #dn001086 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476144014-ZZG98ACTABNYQLA1QC5U/dn000455.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Worlds Within Worlds Image code: #dn000455 Sandstone cliffs reflecting in shallow canyon pool filled with fallen cottonwood leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475789475-M4SL3XHOTXFPYT8HSCDL/di001700.jpg Sandstone Worlds - The Flash Flood Cometh Image code: #di001700 I knew that a series of thunderstorms were on their way to this area and forecasted to trigger major flash floods. I drove to a place where I knew I would likely be stranded for a couple of days, with plenty of supplies. I hiked out to this alcove and set up a comfortable camp in a large patch of soft, dry, sand in the back recesses of the alcove, protected from rain. And I waited. This was the beginning of what soon became a veil of brown water—not very photogenic, but one of the most memorable experiences I’ve had in this desert. I spent two nights in the alcove, and this is the only time the wash above it flooded. I then spent three more nights car-camping a few miles away before attempting to drive out once the dirt roads were cleared. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475759986-XXS2EWNO90YUOQ1RGLKX/di001748.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Luminous Ceiling Image code: #di001748 The ceiling of an unusual double-chambered alcove. Signs of human occupation suggest that archaic people lived here—some of the earliest humans in the Americas, and certainly in this area. This was their ceiling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068898395-747S29COHVBLRDUBUGS2/di001524.jpg Sandstone Worlds - What Lies Ahead Image code: #di001524 When conditions like these (approaching storm) occur unexpectedly, sometimes I reach for the camera, and sometimes I find a comfortable place to sit and appreciate where I get to be and the things I get to see. Sometimes I’ll turn my attention to the camera afterward, but not always. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475953812-8STTTXT8RZPPB2M8CQA3/di001985.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Late Autumn Storm Image code: #di001985 An autumn storm approaches the great canyon of a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476094273-CZ8PE27O1B080V84HZJL/dn000061.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Hazy Canyon Morning Image code: #dn000061 In late autumn, the sun hangs low in the sky most of the day. After a stretch of clear days, the air fills with dust and other particulates, making it appear hazy, and making beams and shadows visible and ethereal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476014958-5Q314S0FTTF8R70FJTVU/dl000318.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Flow of Life Image code: #dl000318 A green band of vegetation marking the path of a desert river, carves a sinuous path through immense layers of rock and earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475983177-SPKSZW4NLKKZ3GGPF6IF/dl000025.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Sandstone Lullaby Image code: #dl000025 A young ash tree, dormant and bare for the winter, against a sandstone wall of curving, elegant, tafoni. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476040988-YWFBPEJGEAL9D5PUNTTS/dn000661.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Time Travel Image id: #dn000661 Light reflected into a narrow slot canyon reveals stories on many time scales: the previous day’s winds that blew a dry shrub into the canyon; the death of the plant, likely weeks before, and its sprouting, likely a few years before; a small dune of sand eroded off the sandstone walls in the course of decades, perhaps centuries; the sandstone consisting of Jurassic-period sand dunes compressed into rock form in the course of tens of millions of years; and the presence of the photographer, a few decades in age, and having fewer decades of life remaining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476121706-SK044WGAIHG168PDEC7G/dn000649.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Restful Tapestry Image code: #dn000649 The presence of reeds marks the presence of a desert spring, despite there being no water on the surface. Gambel oaks, now bare for the winter, take advantage of the bounty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476197723-54GXLB638FP030WVYF6S/do000047.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Rincon Sanctuary Image code: #do000047 Shaft of light shining onto a mat of soft grasses in a sheltered space behind a rincon (island of rock formed when a creek abandons its former path and switches to a new one). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476225669-PFDNYI6GTK08JWJTJZTF/do000108.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Desert River Repose Image code: #do000108 Late afternoon light illuminates a sandstone cliff above a bend in a desert river. Peaceful and lonesome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476251086-OKLOKN14OCU61AQK9O5H/dc000603.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Better Days Image code: #dc000603 Blooming prickly pear cactus against a backdrop of an early monsoon thunderstorm in the sandstone desert. I picked the title for this image a few years after I made it, during a difficult time, and remembering the beauty of this late spring day, mixed with the scents of wet earth and desert brush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068615610-J5MJP5SE70U3XWRV16SZ/f000244.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Quiet Awe Image code: #f000244 Canyon walls glowing in late afternoon light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068616953-Y2R4BH30LVVOG599H3RL/f000243.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Sigh of Relief Image code: #f000243 View from my campsite after a long day of travel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068617397-5AKQBHQ0CFZV8PFKHCVO/f000245.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Until Tomorrow Image code: #f000245 Last light, seconds before the sun disappeared behind a cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628882438026-DWGIHHDHVNX14LKPSXRP/f000415.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Celestial Portal Image code: #f000415 Deep water pocket in a “brain rock” sandstone formation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628882258702-H2TJ9F18O77YPDX92RYG/dn001128.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Sky Pool Image code: #dn001128 A chain of sandstone water pockets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475499841-KI21S32UUV2G96PBGPQ7/de002205.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Canyon Moment Image code: #de002205 Sometimes, while hiking, you just have to stop and stand still to realize you are the noisiest thing around. Suddenly, the world becomes silent, and you can make out the faint gurgling of flowing water, droplets hitting stone, and the whisper of wind in the trees just beyond the bend. Those familiar with such sensations likely also know that the combination of hushed sounds echoing within a deep canyon can be confused easily with muffled speech. It takes conscious effort to convince yourself that no other person is within many miles. This is just what this place sounds like when no people are present, which is a great majority of the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628883551127-JLDS3KWNXWEG2KRZW149/di000807.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Stranded Image code: #di000807 Tree log wedged high above the floor of a slot canyon, where it was deposited by a flash flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475814984-4BZILBDBSBAZ9EWDN2NV/di001960.jpg Sandstone Worlds - The Way Forward Image code: #di001960 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628883551307-00A08NIW226JKL5GTXKV/de002813.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Parted Veil Image code: #de002813 Sculpted sandstone walls in a slot canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1679852462786-9AURX9S9PUHHSOFDUN0R/di000632.jpg Sandstone Worlds - The Wait Image code: #di000632 Dormant scrub oaks lined in snow, against a canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970431695-A4H5MBM0ZDK10A444V1J/f000219.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Where Life Hides Image code: #f000219 A short stretch of surface water in an otherwise mostly dry canyon, this place attracts wildlife from miles away. The tracks along the creek are of bighorn sheep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1679852350834-I3MDVJVX8Z0TPNZOGNLA/di001562.jpg Sandstone Worlds - What's Next? Image code: #di001562 A perennial creek meanders through a steep desert canyon. https://guytal.com/mystery-people-warm-tone-bw daily 0.75 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437172114-24KLFDI6CMO2WIIA6ANJ/dc000725_b.jpg Mystery People - Adobe Granary Image code: #dc000725 A granary tucked in a narrow alcove high above a deep canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437172114-24KLFDI6CMO2WIIA6ANJ/dc000725_b.jpg Mystery People - Adobe Granary Image code: #dc000725 A granary tucked in a narrow alcove high above a deep canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437194084-WDCQ3BLVFEQQ2A2QJ28L/de000955.jpg Mystery People - I Was Here Image code: #de000955 The imprint of a small hand, perhaps a child's, above an ancient dwelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437216467-BKTR90SNZ0BLF4X7BQ03/de001665_b.jpg Mystery People - Inner Passage Image code: #de001665 An outer wall shields these dwelling, accessible only through a narrow opening (seen at the bottom of the wall on the lower right). This is believed to be the home of religious priests, and was built up in a variety of styles in the course of centuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437237957-11IBMG83ROED71S9K5FT/dl000020.jpg Mystery People - Against the Grain Image code: #dl000020 Sharpening marks on sandstone, found near an archaic ceremonial site, suggesting they may be thousands of years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437256257-3KZ02TLHJ75GVTBDF7VT/de000084_b.jpg Mystery People - Ceiling Above Ceiling Image code: #de000084 Alcove patterns above an old puebloan ruin's thatched roof. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437279626-5XUN4ZFS0PP39QNZH9XD/de001672_b.jpg Mystery People - Food Supply Image code: #de001672 Large granaries used by Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) to store maize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437302592-F2R2J5Q24ALMIP6N9GN5/de000086.jpg Mystery People - Grinding Stone Image code: #de000086 Metates and manos in ancient alcove dwelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437324929-SGH4EYX28BWLEIGN6Z2H/de002870_b.jpg Mystery People - Metate and Mano Image code: #de002870 Metate (mortar) and mano (grinding stone) in an ancient puebloan dwelling, used to make maize (corn) flour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437344480-IL2AJ09XA8ND7XNO6WKB/de001969.jpg Mystery People - Fremont Cyclops Image code: #de001969 Anthropomorphic pictograph in the Fremont culture style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437368527-VKACD144ALLXF8KGEQ4S/de003086_b.jpg Mystery People - Hunting Lodge Image code: #de003086 A shallow alcove under a giant boulder, decorated with hunting-related pictographs dating back to archaic times (thousands of years old). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437388200-J1R7F4GTT3XW097OGMHK/de001676_b.jpg Mystery People - Decorated Dwelling Image code: #de001676 The painted wall of a dwelling believed to have been used by priests conducting ceremonies in a nearby kiva. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437411649-SBJXWZ3WWMM1MOVIJIFM/de000951_b.jpg Mystery People - Kitchen Counter Image code: #de000951 A shallow alcove under a giant boulder, decorated with hunting-related pictographs dating back to archaic times (thousands of years old). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437433421-P4ZW1PZ0TCEQVYPK8CCL/de002215_b.jpg Mystery People - Tightrope Walker Image code: #de002215 Anthropomorphic petroglyph at an ancient ceremonial site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437451564-SMW7EDBN9P8IN9A8STNL/di000468.jpg Mystery People - Kiva Ghosts Image code: #di000468 A kiva is an underground ceremonial chamber used by puebloan cultures (what some refer to as Anasazi, although the term—meaning, “Enemy People” in the Navajo language—is inaccurate). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437474323-XWANQ7EE6C7D36LCCHVV/dg000325_b.jpg Mystery People - Curiosity Image code: #dg000325 Leopard lizard watching me cautiously as I photograph a bighorn sheep petroglyph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437491743-UE4HF51MD4LVL7J8MZYL/di000472.jpg Mystery People - Mementos Image code: #di000472 Bits and pieces of an ancient household. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437511836-RAIYYTUS5PCDPPLNZL2T/di000480.jpg Mystery People - Medicine Bowl Image code: #di000480 Pestle and mortar in an ancient puebloan dwelling. The small size indicates it was used to grind something in small portions, rather than major food ingredients. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437546979-0E0BUZ2KU9I4OOVAXQRT/dl000051.jpg Mystery People - Lost Point Image code: #dl000051 A small arrow point exposed by wind after having been lost in the sand for hundreds of years. The point likely is already covered in new sand, and may never be found again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437565314-1KGVOQX35I0AG9FR7XC8/dk000041.jpg Mystery People - The Ties that Bind Image code: #dk000041 Knots holding together the frame of an ancient dwelling’s window. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437788155-ORPL70EUCHW879PK2QWG/f000163.jpg Mystery People - Keepers of the Altar Image code: #f000163 Fremont culture anthropomorphous adorn the wall of a shamanic ceremonial site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437606734-U09I3T0KHBDZ8UN8QN1Y/di001425.jpg Mystery People - Winged Watchers Image code: #di001425 The remains of an ancient desert dwelling. Among the rock art are depictions of large winged creatures believed to be mythical thunderbirds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437636704-LA4K8VDTLSALQF8YRHOZ/di000820.jpg Mystery People - Some Things Never Change Image code: #di000820 It's easy to romanticize ancient cultures as being more peaceful and in tune with the natural world. But, they were as human as any of us, and as prone to tribalism and violence as we are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437657451-FJBG67D1HMS1PYWIDFCS/de003172.jpg Mystery People - Walls within Walls Image code: #de003172 A low wall marks a private living space in an enormous alcove where several such places line the walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437590474-CGIMMZJG8B9TT3WDH733/di000784.jpg Mystery People - Ancient Fingerprints Image code: #di000784 The fingerprints of ancient people preserved in mortar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616354711641-6468I5U1CITXAF1QRZY5/dl000353.jpg Mystery People - Bighorn Sheep Tracks Image code: #dl000353 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614438454167-GKGFJE9Q6M3GB6HUY6FY/b001003.jpg Mystery People - The Rainbow Saga Image code: #b001003 A large and dense panel of petroglyphs, likely carved in the course of many centuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614439759651-ERIX24Y17VA62DY2OD2O/f000340.jpg Mystery People - Cross Sections Image code: #f000340 Intersections of human and geologic times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553763513-H0OB16Y5H2W3FEIDK9AM/f000966.jpg Mystery People - Hidden Meaning Image code: #f000966 A petroglyph, likely of a dragonfly, pecked into sandstone by a member of an ancient native culture, likely around 1500-2000 years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553759108-3TKEWM47ZYN2YNWJNXEB/f000949.jpg Mystery People - Signifier Image code: #f000949 In semiotics (the study of symbols), we distinguish signifier (the symbol) from signified (the meaning). To any given person, the meanings of many symbols are obvious, but in time these meaning may be forgotten, leaving cryptic symbols for those who may encounter them in some faraway future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553760930-XTX3JON4DRYSXU8GUBGL/f000956.jpg Mystery People - Ancient Ornithology Image code: #956 Petroglyphs that look to me like the shapes of the feet of different bird species. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744127997-11F9KOLS9HEL8WGG9ADR/g000263.jpg Mystery People - Over the Rainbow Image code: #g000263 Mysterious petroglyphs on a steep canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744118880-KZB23559Z5LSHIR2J77E/dp000115.jpg Mystery People - Sex Ed Image code: #dp000115 Petroglyphs of birds (perhaps cranes or ibises), seemingly depicting parts of their reproductive cycle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744127239-PYT2ML040RC7CSH53ZMZ/g000246.jpg Mystery People - Lightning Fighter Image code: #g000246 Petroglyph depicting a person, perhaps a holy figure, seemingly surrounded by arrows and lightning bolts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744124963-CKXVH9I6PLMY4MA43KKR/f001094.jpg Mystery People - Abode Image code: #f001094 Ancient Native American dwelling in a deep alcove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744121986-7KJ5SO4NZQGI02T5S8LD/f000985.jpg Mystery People - Dine' Dream Image code: #f000985 The interior of an ancient Navajo (aka Dine’) log shelter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744113653-MNK90QE4ZCFCDBHRTIVA/di000470.jpg Mystery People - The Way Out Image code: #di000470 A beam of light shines into an ancient Kiva (underground ceremonial chamber). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744115713-BDVWSUAYG6FOGY1SFFPS/dn000423.jpg Mystery People - A Storyteller's Dream Image code: #dn000423 Ancient glyphs on a remote canyon’s wall, telling stories whose purpose and meaning are long lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744120362-Y0MG5UYRI9ZXS8VEFG9K/f000647.jpg Mystery People - Corvid Stamp Image code: #f000647 A petroglyph depicting a raven’s track. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744121195-B2B4PP5M5ZPT3FL0QF3H/f000961.jpg Mystery People - Anisopter Image code: #f000961 A petroglyph depicting (what I believe is) a dragonfly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062448773-SJ809UF0YB10ZGTQHBGF/f001092.jpg Mystery People - Keep Guessing Image code: #f001092 Native American rock art is often cryptic, open to interpretation, its meaning long lost and perhaps not even comprehensible to modern humans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062444999-5GTT0YQ0C04RC0OBCWJD/g000253.jpg Mystery People - Altar Users Guide Image code: #g000253 Petroglyph, likely depicting a bear or mountain lion, on a flat, level slab of rock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062448171-CZRA9P9A5I5DF7W17EVC/g000009.jpg Mystery People - Too Many Movies Image code: #g000009 Petroglyph depicting (perhaps) a person holding (perhaps) a spear. https://guytal.com/storms-mixed daily 0.75 2025-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440032760-ZCKHAPGSZ0S9AD4IT2XI/de003142.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Emotional Image code: #de003142 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440032760-ZCKHAPGSZ0S9AD4IT2XI/de003142.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Emotional Image code: #de003142 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440054086-2UVNCSTFC8A9M1XQV1EJ/de003063.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Quiet Image code: #de003063 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440070216-GGCFZ7YL8EB68WFP5SDD/de003108.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Perfect Image code: #de003108 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306516372-E2HG4X2W35MC2ASV7OY1/di001105.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Poetical Image code: #di001105 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708026215190-7GSG1IUJ68ZAYQ1EJ3BF/di001111.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Towering Image code: #di001111 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306516066-3IWQ3XUBKY788OO3J9FG/di001103.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Uplifting Image code: #di001103 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440090224-M18EZGX9OOH7G2SJOCXH/di002004.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Heavy Image code: #di002004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440106072-OV1N4HL17LATRQ1XQ2V3/de003140.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Ethereal Image code: #de003140 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440137808-96MT186T1ESTSHEEVS1P/de003082.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Heavenly Image code: #de003082 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708026980446-P6K49Y9PR8E6J70DFYY9/f000463.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Mournful Image code: #f000463 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708026981359-OGQBGPGEZG5LWMA95VCA/f001050.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Melancholy Image code: #f001050 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708026980501-AFDPO3USQ9JBWHBWSHNT/f001045.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Forlorn Image code: #f001045 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440152509-UBC8ULVDD65IYNSFNX3Z/di001957.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Gathering Image code: #di001957 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440170075-MU80T6TPXG4Z9L0V2B80/dn000084.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Comforting Image code: #dn000084 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440214286-SPJD2E7RO9KKC07M2QSS/dn000725.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Restful Image code: #dn000725 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306525877-KE0WSGT8FEDNNEUX12YC/dl000078.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Unforgettable Image code: #dl000078 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306520112-FFYS2OUFSA5VX5XFO8Q2/di001664.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Soaring Image code: #di001664 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306527463-LQ4B7EPEYGL4XJP6FP08/dl000472.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Drifting Image code: #dl000472 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440232478-KEBDX5FY111PNBFCXJ86/dl000101.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Benevolent Image code: #dl000101 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440251754-5XTSHEOVST7S40ZIFHTE/di000304.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Demonic Image code: #di000304 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440269661-1S7OP3X5FRLXV20981VT/e000007.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Biblical Image code: #e000007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306534586-QMK75W3H504DKK496L24/e000015.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Breathing Image code: #e000015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306532662-7WRQH7LQOVYLBE5T8W51/e000001.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Beckoning Image code: #e000001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306533462-8A145TDUA56E3W9XY1DI/e000003.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Revelatory Image code: #e000003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440288683-74BDS9XINSUPV27VNM3H/dl000402.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Hovering Image code: #dl000402 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440305967-PBH51KMPUFMGKI8H2V4R/di000099.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Distant Image code: #di000099 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440332980-LDOB25ZS2Q9E8EEQYZPN/di000102.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Brewing Image code: #di000102 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708273073363-Z0WIGGPIS0X85BPGXBMR/f000475.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Remindful Image code: #f000475 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708273072376-OW5DN526BFG46NG7QOEL/de002494_b.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Liberating Image code: #de002494 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708273072542-L22Z79UD2BRIYUC41V8H/f000432.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Charged Image code: #f000432 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349375505-B3FX3YZFCU3Q0UW9D61B/dn001179.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Menacing Image code: #dn001179 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349376293-V54G6ECZLSTILWP3B5FH/dn000128.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Metamorphic Image code: #dn000128 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349375482-J66XVDUT4AXYJB4NRX2B/dn000347.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Postapocalyptic Image code: #dn000347 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708026167785-U1XTTME1FUO9VL1YKXNS/g000057.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Feathery Image code: #g000057 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306510518-B74NBN0B86SPO2ECXE5W/di000248.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Monumental Image code: #di000248 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708026167784-CBKYTIFV9EI7OFHG8T9A/di001184.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Screaming Image code: #di001184 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349719341-PHAW2KQI2UKTN36V2LRB/dp000069.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Meandering Image code: #dp000069 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349720157-5OUO54MVU5GXGZZOKZ9O/dn000301.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Singular Image code: #dn000301 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349719335-ZDAHKCC3GK0OSE6M2J8E/dn000322.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Contrapuntal Image code: #dn000322 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708027499166-EX0QQNH5IPZCO19VEMYV/di001462.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Saturating Image code: #di001462 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708027498195-8NTS5TT0J3LG77VSWCPJ/di001433.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Lamentful Image code: #di001433 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708027498242-A1M5I6P6DCQOUSYJASTB/di001430.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Propitious Image code: #di001430 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349107859-0L4JHN17AX4OB5Z1HQKC/di001762.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Vaporous Image code: #di001762 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708271298688-QB3WTMHJEN88NHHE0Q9V/dl000105.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Equivalent Image code: #dl000105 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349107940-B3PTI3H1S7NM3ER0PAJV/f000338.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Incomprehensible Image code: #f000338 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708027848291-SNQHZLH6VN4IHWI9RTEM/f000446.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Primordial Image code: #f000446 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708027847503-EYY1OO3MTEH91XGJJNV5/dl000400.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Unexpected Image code: #dl000400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708027847336-QTBUOQNMNOXNUCWF4LLE/di001939.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Sweeping Image code: #di001939 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616351572906-SJYE2K34F1NPLCEG9M66/dl000467.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Palliative Image code: #dl000467 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616351573686-PIA6L3ELXELU3SLWE4CQ/de002788_b.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Tantalizing Image code: #de002788 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616353201520-GBNZ03PMSTQIT0EC9TLC/di000273.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Mysterious Image code: #di000273 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708271495306-H0OY144W8XZD4PQHHJO7/dn000874.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Driving Image code: #dn000874 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708271493871-7VCVFG8XL4VKK6OBXVDY/dn000870.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Awaiting Image code: #dn000870 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708271494008-AAKU1EKM9B8ZTVYPF5P2/de002878.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Homebound Image code: #de002878 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628876858335-CVI9DK5O6ACW8WGLIIVR/f000480.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Whispering Image code: #f000480 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628876669798-X5S7U26WBBTU78V12HF1/f000464.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Redoubtable Image code: #f000464 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628876670559-877HQLNOZJXOULHS051X/f000474.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Relentless Image code: #f000474 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306516796-CQHY51WIEQOLCPJGFJ9I/di001213_new.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Whispering Image code: #di001213 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306509185-8E8E3SBNXZUKM0EMWZ1O/de002790.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Tantalizing Image code: #de002790 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1753022256362-NOH3UGWPXM67BX1MNJ46/di001880.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Apparitional Image code: #di001880 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628876669797-8TBW8C8D58LMFXHRC0ZS/f000447.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Stalwart Image code: #f000447 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628876671461-YB9410VX5RW98BEGG3E8/f000485.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Serene Image code: #f000485 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628876671641-56P7O5GRH25ZN19IV4L0/f000487.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Slithery Image code: #f000487 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708274201522-L1TO2M0KGU2D9F2RPH4N/f000549.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Psychedelic Image code: #f000549 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708274200496-CDNESJ4AFBO2IYRRBIK7/de002194.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Ennobling Image code: #de002194 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708274200817-U0Z7K6XK3M6XKFUVITPG/dn000060.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Soothing Image ode: #dn000060 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553757199-AY6OOT6R3UZVEMFAZWYU/f000832.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Vatic Image code: #f000832 This image is part of my series titled, “Adjectives for Desert Storms.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553756386-41L2LS4DH44E216ONSXN/f000748.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Ominous Image code: #f000748 This image is part of my series titled, “Adjectives for Desert Storms.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553757445-JRB6FD0388K2EJLFKQ9Q/f000857.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Taunting Image code: #f000857 This image is part of my series titled, “Adjectives for Desert Storms.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708274721457-3W8VK80OXJJU2MPFNRDU/dh000738.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Nurturing Image code: #dh000738 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708274721516-P84K9WRJVEDJ520R9VF7/f000455.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Streaming Image code: #f000455 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708274722247-YIMFTBCR8MVX9EBDA4PF/f000791.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Blanketing Image code: #f000791 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708275547219-EY9EDFWP644H2JEW9UO9/dn000318.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Reassuring Image code: #dn000318 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708275566582-FFA1XMI4FKO0EPUMD2K2/dn000321.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Piercing Image code: #dn000321 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708275547326-OVY2S3EJIQ0WXAUZI0FI/f000977.jpg Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Nocturnal Image code: #f000977 https://guytal.com/water daily 0.75 2022-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435335455-M2VZIMQ23G31G0ZD115N/de001684.jpg Water - Foam Warp Image code: #de001684 Fallen yellow aspen leaf floating among foam patterns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435335455-M2VZIMQ23G31G0ZD115N/de001684.jpg Water - Foam Warp Image code: #de001684 Fallen yellow aspen leaf floating among foam patterns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435354953-0OI8PKL6ULDTJZ2GMYNS/de001442.jpg Water - Slow Boil Image code: #de001442 Foam patterns over a shallow pool at the outlet of an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435374862-2MQK89B7F2FV8JJXKXCJ/de001443.jpg Water - Blue Cauldron Image code: #de001443 Swirling aspen leaves and foam patterns on a shallow pool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435543599-PHZYJIPCJ8A7ZP9SN5LA/dl000217.jpg Water - Playful Iridescence Image code: #dl000217 Flowing water over colorful pebbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435565016-BJTIU6GZ3DB1J1C6833F/di001634.jpg Water - Fond Memory Image code: #di001634 Patterns of a desert creek flowing over sandstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435589308-JBZVI0Q837H4Y1EADBFW/dl000223.jpg Water - Restless Peace Image code: #dl000223 Patterns of water flowing over colorful pebbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435395739-U8GI2VNDSKNVXFSNRUR6/dl000046.jpg Water - Liquid Gems Image code: #dl000046 Bubbling water in a desert creek refracts light and colorful pebbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435424414-GO9D9KK59M9EE79ODL07/dl000047.jpg Water - Flowing Crystals Image code: #dl000047 Colorful pebbles below the surface of a shallow desert creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435446262-LJBFZXU1MV5UN1RYYRTF/di001642.jpg Water - Wet Dream Image code: #di001642 Shallow desert creek flowing over colorful pebbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435469343-VVXC5RBBPIAX7W7P2TWM/de001828.jpg Water - After the Ice Image code: #de001828 Patterns and ripples on the surface of a thawing lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435490022-JQX4XSAAWU2ATTW13F96/di001714.jpg Water - A Merging of Worlds Image code: #di001714 Aspen trees slowly turning into autumn colors, reflecting in an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435522793-O35533KA56QUOPCP14LU/de002567.jpg Water - Liquidity Image code: #de002567 Young cottonwood and willows reflecting in a desert creek lined with green algae. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435611060-HM4W5MKV7BJHFZE5EW8N/dn000458.jpg Water - Ultramarine Image code: #dn000458 Fallen cottonwood leaves floating in iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435634322-B13J3FZ3FSPZ248DN63Q/dn000457.jpg Water - Miniature Icebergs Image code: #dn000457 Shards of thin iridescent biofilm floating on a shallow pool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435679197-FLT4G2BRLABRGFJRBXTO/di000506.jpg Water - Liquid Iridescence Image code: #di000506 Cottonwood leaves floating among iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435697676-7H1M4QQ7KR7NSH9NY7D6/dl000123.jpg Water - Iridescent Decay Image code: #dl000123 Fallen cottonwood leaf in canyon pool covered in a thin sheet of iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435715991-P6SZ0ZKUVV8P25V4GHN6/dl000122.jpg Water - Fragments of Decay Image code: #dl000122 Fallen cottonwood leaf floating among iridescent biofilm shards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435738043-LQH5H6D45GCATB9Y2LCR/dl000224.jpg Water - Every Last Drop Image code: #dl000224 Likely the last bit of sunlight this fallen leaf, barely hanging on to the sandstone bottom of a shallow desert creek, will ever see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655051166403-U9DI1Q7239FLB0HYLBP4/c001035.jpg Water - Suspended Animation Image code: #c001035 Maple leaves, ash leaves, and pine needles trapped in a thin sheet of ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655051170536-65THO7ACCB8JYRDU9KEG/di000514.jpg Water - Swirling Away Image code: #di000514 Fallen autumn cottonwood leaves swirl among eddies of foam at the bottom of a small canyon waterfall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655051166229-EIQOO9ZQ1V4257LPR9VT/c001115.jpg Water - Until Next Life Image code: #c001115 Maple leaves trapped in thin sheet of ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655051168105-10MZ5L7BON73QHA4WVIL/de000637.jpg Water - Sensuous Subduction Image code: #de000637 Boxelder leaf trapped in ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655051170246-I22YU2Y1ZJF8KL06YVDJ/dk000048.jpg Water - Ice Irises Image code: #dk000048 Ice patterns reminiscent of iris flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655051168038-BBH1Q3CTPCYI42UU0RG9/de000638.jpg Water - Unbidden Farewell Image code: #de000638 Boxelder leaf trapped in ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655667899249-SK1KAMGYW74J309LF7XF/dh000797.jpg Water - Temptations Image code: #dh000797 Cottonwood leaf, and unfortunate insect, floating over a thin layer of iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655667900275-E0TDHLMWBGMM25EGBG85/do000015.jpg Water - Psychedelia Image code: #do000015 Iridescent biofilm at the edge of a desert creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655667899260-I7CH95JK8B5KQ588Q011/di001733.jpg Water - Aquarelle Image code: #di001773 Cottonwood leaf floating among colorful reflections and iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435759638-81MOPJ2AES3XZG419GE5/dl000112.jpg Water - Winter Lullaby Image code: #dl000112 Bare cottonwood trees reflect in a canyon pool covered in iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435775504-CMDR0WG1M6WN5I8IUFI8/dl000119.jpg Water - Liquid Hallucination Image code: #dl000119 Cottonwood trees reflecting in desert pool covered in iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435792651-VQYBDNLCVU7AM3I2AAD7/dl000113.jpg Water - Winter Dream Image code: #dl000113 Trees reflecting in desert pool covered in iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435813083-DU2D9WVPNEYPL8S0JPXZ/de001558.jpg Water - Tinaja Reflections Image code: #de001558 Fallen cottonwood leaves floating in a tinaja (desert water pocket), reflecting a sandstone canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435837071-7H9VA3EWRH0EUTEPGJ32/dn000455.jpg Water - Worlds Within Worlds Image code: #dn000455 Sandstone cliffs reflecting in shallow canyon pool filled with fallen cottonwood leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435854652-KL79OPN81QDPNT6OQ8SS/de002024.jpg Water - Sapling in the Clouds Image code: #de002024 After a good rainy season, this aspen sapling sprouted at the edge of an alpine lake. In time, the water will recede back to its normal levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435891127-OHM47OA4NGIHPP2CA7LT/do000071.jpg Water - Smooth and Curvy Image code: #do000071 Smooth sandstone sculpted by desert creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435914090-N40YWH6ZO7X8IGY74X79/de002167.jpg Water - Dawn on the Lake Image code: #de002167 Red dawn sky reflecting in the rippled waters of an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435931366-0UG1F4TY2KLT751WSRI1/dn000219.jpg Water - Desert Sky Reflection Image code: #dn000219 Recent rain water reflecting the evening sky as it slowly evaporates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435947500-R76IIHS4MRZXPH3P8BB9/di001768.jpg Water - Ephemeral Flow Image code: #di001768 Small waterfall forming in a fluted sandstone pathway during a flash flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435965605-MRMRIPPDJJWNDEMMSLNK/di001154.jpg Water - Intaglio Image code: #di001154 Pattern in wet earth along a desert creek, reflecting red glow coming off the canyon walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435985430-PE26C9DZYXLNZS7POPAD/dl000242.jpg Water - Rippled Reflection Image code: #dl000242 Wind ripples distort the reflection of a cottonwood tree and canyon wall in a desert pool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655668633563-WS0RA6GAVH9TE3A1NAYK/dl000423.jpg Water - String Theory Image code: #dl000423 Ever morphing rings of reflected light form and break with the motion of gentle waves on an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655668635187-QILPQAHR9KLOYEQYK0B7/dl000502.jpg Water - Primordial Image code: #dl000502 Foam patterns below a small waterfall in a desert creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655668633620-TG0BDG39LNPTPWH10CK2/dl000245.jpg Water - Glistening Image code: #dl000245 Shallow flow of water over colorful travertine terraces. https://guytal.com/illuminations daily 0.75 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594068769301-JD0R9CPMGPO42N88RV0P/di001609.jpg Illuminations - Illuminated Alluvium Image code: #di001609 Shaft of light streams down the crevices of an eroded landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594068769301-JD0R9CPMGPO42N88RV0P/di001609.jpg Illuminations - Illuminated Alluvium Image code: #di001609 Shaft of light streams down the crevices of an eroded landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069100881-1WML2HB41BADZW97VD71/di001674.jpg Illuminations - Special Relativity Image code: #di001674 Time, light, and gravity in the desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069064781-YKEVKNFR6L7SOFUMLNRC/di001616.jpg Illuminations - Luminous Touch Image code: #di001616 Gentle light in the blue desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372739046-MIFHU6RKUVJO3VEJ8TA4/de000686.jpg Illuminations - Gentle Evening Image code: #de000686 Watching the last of the sunlight in perfect silence, from the top of a large sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372760632-IERAKPWRFVLNTOYHD3CI/de002131.jpg Illuminations - The Chasm's Edge Image code: #de002131 Evening spotlight illuminates a large desert butte at the base of a remote mountain range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372782591-NHJJKINJP7EXO4TUARIW/de000682.jpg Illuminations - Evening Among the Dunes Image code: #de000682 Late afternoon sunlight touches the peaks of large sand dunes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372810600-144CP8O7Z9II93UNUNMR/di001009.jpg Illuminations - Castle Gates Image code: #di001009 Chiaroscuro of light filtering through storm clouds, in a landscape of eroded ancient rocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372832104-0M1XQGC1KXKG2HMKF1YI/de003157.jpg Illuminations - Blue Slopes Image code: #de003157 Ephemeral light traverses steep slopes of gray-blue clay, strewn with eroded sandstone boulders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372855367-KVA9BWCU87WMDUURHR75/di001012.jpg Illuminations - Desert Green Image code: #di001012 The desert comes alive after profuse rainfall from monsoon thunderstorms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372895779-FRNPDQDW8EGM8KM9X7JV/de002193.jpg Illuminations - Between the Storms Image code: #de002193 Sagebrush covered slopes glowing in late summer afternoon light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372924254-DYJ2A7BLO2LYCD6OO9U0/dn000340.jpg Illuminations - Sagebrush Undulations Image code: #dn000340 Light streaming through openings in storm clouds, strokes the curves of a sagebrush covered volcanic landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372946219-8ZAPU3YX6TNC5VHMGCLQ/de002399.jpg Illuminations - A Memorable Afternoon Image code: #de002399 Golden light marks the end of a late autumn day on a high volcanic plateau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372967636-VB2G4UO2QPD21YZ86UWO/dl000318.jpg Illuminations - Flow of Life Image code: #dl000318 The canyon of a desert river illuminated by patches of light streaming through openings in storm clouds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372993204-X08UOAAPCG1J1PC4USRC/di001524.jpg Illuminations - What Lies Ahead Image code: #di001524 Winter storm making its way down a deep desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373016197-B2OX907FZA5WHNCLN95E/dl000024.jpg Illuminations - We of the Desert Image code: #dl000024 "Like a ship moving into port, we of the desert come up into the night." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373139231-GR4ZYS6RC5ZJ5RS8UHRW/di001098.jpg Illuminations - Between Two Eternities Image code: #di001098 "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." ~Vladimir Nabokov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373163359-K9APIGJAEGGZC5K6EZIT/dn000331.jpg Illuminations - Break in the Storm Image code: #dn000331 Light filtering through a thick monsoon storm cloud layer illuminates a canyon rim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373203017-UAXZ1TI50C41NDVRX0AU/dl000386_1.jpg Illuminations - Once Upon a Desert Image code: #dl000386 Shafts of light piercing the cloud cover of a monsoon thunderstorm illuminatng desert cathedrals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373228936-IGYBJULRRAU1DSTKCSQB/dn000527.jpg Illuminations - Homage Image code: #dn000527 Rock spires catching the last light of the day, separating them from a steep slope of rock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373360761-T04XBEZT7VBFGRQS9FR8/dp000060.jpg Illuminations - Connected by Light Image code: #dp000060 A beam of sunliught illuminates a small sagebrush shrub, and touches a single distant rock on the slope of a canyon beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373384968-NIBMEA6B5CKPH486R3HD/dn000534.jpg Illuminations - Light Marks the Spot Image code: #dn000534 The edge of a rock ledge catching the last of the winter's sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373406745-28H1JTQ03RC7N7CZFB86/dn000802.jpg Illuminations - Desert Chiaroscuro Image code: #dn000802 Layers of colorful clay deposited in the Triassic period, glow in dappled light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373429351-PYX3HU9MBR6V57R285XQ/dn000795.jpg Illuminations - Meandering Light Image code: #dn000795 Light filtering through clouds, meanders about the desert landscape, illuminating random parts of it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373459138-M99VNGW82UTTPH79P3XO/dn000785.jpg Illuminations - Canyon Mystique Image code: #dn000785 Chiaroscuro formed by cloud shadows and sunlight streaming through openings in the cloud cover, meandering over a large, dry, desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373496829-38F4DS371DRTC97RC6J1/dn000027.jpg Illuminations - Searchlights Image code: #dn000027 Sunlight pierces through a layer of clouds to illuminate spots in a canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373513697-0ULYLDY2UXANWK57NS4U/dl000346.jpg Illuminations - Purple Prose Image code: #dl000346 Last light above the canyon of a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373545576-1IZNVOF74TIDEHJJXNG1/dn000029.jpg Illuminations - Where Nobody Goes Image code: #dn000029 Desert creek meanders through a remote canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373567915-1AR1IIGLIEP9R4XNSRF2/di002011.jpg Illuminations - The Prophet Image code: #di002011 Joshua Trees are so named because their human-like postures reminded some early Christian settlers of the prophet Joshua. I'm not sure whether people of other traditions had similar anthropomorphic ideas of these yuccas (not actually trees), but I can speak to the eerie feeling of camping among them, and being in their company in the twilight hours when my unconscious mind keeps seeing human figures all around me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373587962-5RFH27A5UDE0JE5NLUB6/di001761.jpg Illuminations - Borderline Image code: #di001761 The skeleton of a dead tree witnessing the arrival of evening on one side and the last light of the day on the other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373610129-CTJWOTUBRP7D94EXT1XJ/dn000184.jpg Illuminations - Yearning Image code: #dn000184 The very last of the sunlight kisses the very tops of the cliffs as night falls over the desert. For some reason, in times like these is when I am most aware of the peace and silence and the absence of traces of humanity. These are also the moments I yearn for in other times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373633539-EHOX9HSDMXNVEW9GUEF3/di001759.jpg Illuminations - Celestial Miniature Image code: #di001759 Small rocks form an other-worldly diorama. They are, of course, made of elements forged elsewhere in the universe, some by the violent explosion of giant stars; and some may yet become other stars and celestial bodies long after our solar system is gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373666212-0BGHVWM67C51DP2VS85F/dn000508.jpg Illuminations - Accented Edges Image code: #dn000508 Although I did not plan for it, I found myself looking at this sheer cliff face, dozens of feet tall, at the exact time when an inches-thick layer of it caught the sunlight while the rest of the rock face was in shade. I suspect this only happens for a few days each year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373688039-73GEVL4R2UDMW74PDFP4/dp000005.jpg Illuminations - Momentary Fame Image code: #dp000005 The top of a nameless clay hill in a remote part of the desert, catching a shaft of light penetrating through a thick cloud layer. I will be very surprised if this hill has ever been visited, let alone photographed, by a human being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373725729-1HGY964VJXGW72BSNU96/dn000991.jpg Illuminations - Winter Phoenix Image code: #dn000991 A bird-like shape emerges for just a few seconds on the desert floor as a winter storm passes through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373746878-66S0636QLPIL6EC60Z70/de003185.jpg Illuminations - Depth Perception Image code: #de003185 This is a single exposure. I could describe what you are looking at, but I would rather not. I think the mystery is much more enjoyable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373768458-I0IC0NVQ91T41JOPHJLL/dc001087.jpg Illuminations - Aglow Image code: #dc001087 Sliver of morning sunlight paints a desert butte in golden hues before the storm clouds close in again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373829563-TNHAU271PHEZVJ5EBSCR/di001459.jpg Illuminations - Break from The Winter Blues Image code: #di001459 A patch of sunlight breaks the dreary monotony of a passing winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373855947-LXHWJIQ0UB6I20RAFIN0/di001208.jpg Illuminations - Early Autumn Storm Image code: #di001208 In these high sagebrush plains, thunderstorms can be violent, but usually for short periods as storm cells wander around the landscapes. The light during such storms, on the other hand, can be profoundly peaceful and revitalizing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373876713-H1820NO9QJVM4C73PX55/di001938.jpg Illuminations - Springtime Above the River Image code: #di001938 The steep slopes above the gorge of a desert river, show a green tint as ephemeral grasses sprout on a short-lived spring season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373937785-S8ONSPGOUU5M8WOUUJPW/e000156.jpg Illuminations - End of Shift Image code: #e000156 Grasses and mormon tea on the rim of a deep canyon, receiving the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373965557-DPWVD4WI9OJ408DP0SBG/e000136.jpg Illuminations - Last Kiss Image code: #e000136 Last light on the rim of a deep canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373985759-D3N6ALWSC4NDDKSXR6V7/e000153.jpg Illuminations - Day Is Done Image code: #e000153 Last light slowly fading from a small mound covered in desert plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374555685-U2RTZO12J6DWE09L1AWU/f000116.jpg Illuminations - Laser Focus Image code: #f000116 Sunrays piercing through thick thunderstorm clouds illuminate bits of the badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1572710811170-DY4MHAPUIIRB75PNC5I7/e000063.jpg Illuminations - Home Colors Image ID: #e000063 "I am not that presumptuous to think I could speak or paint or write the natural history of my home colors. I know only that they are to blame for intent and motion, for an asymmetrical journey of wonder and of trouble. Light can run a person’s time and moods; it can explain everything." ~Ellen Meloy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374555723-YJ0XJDEBBBG3Z9AVKJZ4/f000108.jpg Illuminations - Out of Space, Out of Time Image code: #f000108 Streams of sunlight coming through breaks in storm clouds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374557847-16H2QFUVZLBJBLAHE8LN/f000131.jpg Illuminations - Lamentation Image code: #f000131 Openings in storm cloud create spotlights over the badlands landscape and buttes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374262242-QO2YC7ZDQ5KNEW26D4L0/dn001187.jpg Illuminations - Shine On Image code: #dn001187 The skeleton of a long dead pinyon pine catching the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374286517-X2T43TIDSAGCM7RKG7W3/do000047.jpg Illuminations - Rincon Sanctuary Image code: #do000047 Shaft of light shining onto a mat of soft grasses in a sheltered space behind a rincon (island of rock formed when a creek abandons its former path and switches to a new one). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374312784-0B4XGDSCSE8XHVX4CHL4/di001748.jpg Illuminations - Luminous Ceiling Image code: #di001748 The ceiling of a sandstone alcove that thousands of years ago was home to a band of Archaic native people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116259486-60LZMTY4PXEY71IPYOBG/f000520.jpg Illuminations - Streaming Shadows Image code: #f000520 Streaming cloud shadows flow over desert buttes as a monsoon storm approaches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116253318-4Z6C7BC3BOFT8OQ70ITJ/f000489.jpg Illuminations - Afternoon Glow Image code: #f000489 Desert buttes glow in the last light on a hazy summer afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116260201-GHS13XB7BIQZ750RLE9P/f000539.jpg Illuminations - Simple Notes Image code: #f000539 Streaming cloud shadows flow over the desert landscape as a storm approaches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116255237-2X2XY2UCFF1L6ZY8467L/f000516.jpg Illuminations - Light Caress Image code: #f000516 Shafts of light piercing through a cloud-laden stormy sky, caressing the slopes of a desert formation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116253429-RERI96KWTI96CKPSK03Y/f000500.jpg Illuminations - Playful Rock Image code: #f000500 Although seemingly solid to our short-lived perceptions, rocks move and flow, wave and splash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116258097-WAZYFFDEB3TYZ9YM4SQW/f000519.jpg Illuminations - The Place Image code: #f000519 A river landing catches a ray of warm sunlight as a storm passes over the desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116257102-K09QMHNBPH1INAJYCBYQ/f000518.jpg Illuminations - Luminous Stroke Image code: #f000518 Heavy cloud shadows and shafts of light reduce the desert scenery to simple shapes and colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116254629-A0J56SHXALSDSTFTYLFX/f000515.jpg Illuminations - Desert Shangri La Image code: #f000515 A rainbow appears over desert buttes in the light drizzle following the fury of a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116256314-0TF1KU5547UZGZUI82KH/f000517.jpg Illuminations - Final Encore Image code: #f000517 The last shaft of light touches a desert butte before sunset, after a marvelous light show in the wake of a monsoon storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1658688235350-9JLMQUCD8TDPU19CLUQ2/f000676.jpg Illuminations - Seneh Image code: #f000676 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1658688236185-XX49OPBH8FC3LCLJVNI7/f000691.jpg Illuminations - The Morning After Image code: #f000691 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1658688232651-JXYT85VK1FY8G1YJJJZL/di001691.jpg Illuminations - Lunar Lander Image code: #di001691 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702703519-MFWYWBIWFJHNL6GI72CK/f000679.jpg Illuminations - 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and I grow angry with everybody and fear everybody. I then require the desert, so as to grow good again.” —Friedrich Nietzsche https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1716302206923-Q3TFTXPLYPN8H6DNFWO8/f000675.jpg Illuminations - Good Neighbor Image code: #f000675 Wild burro among creosote bushes in the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062449944-H1ZE6T8SSRYQAW7TVMLB/f001084.jpg Illuminations - A Season's End Image code: #f001084 Small cottonwood tree showing the last of its autumn foliage in the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062455082-HT7D0RKAPV122A6PSKYP/f000233.jpg Illuminations - Shine On Image code: #f000233 Small aspen tree in autumn foliage absorbing the last ray of light before sunset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062446496-NTGE1YT4QUHFPHBAVF6Q/g000133.jpg Illuminations - Treading Light Image code: #g000133 Willow branch catching the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1731616625727-E7VV9MPJNI0O6D6S5YF9/f001087.jpg Illuminations - Immense Simplicity Image code: #f001087 A beam of light pierces through a deep canyon to light up a narrow bench. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1731616627625-HFQE7ERCB2MNUJHLTS7T/g000147.jpg Illuminations - Resting Place Image code: #g000147 A bend in a desert river lit momentarily as a storm moves in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1731616625662-K9QLCQ5T7Y526BXKS0N4/f001074.jpg Illuminations - Visual Sigh Image code: #f001074 Last light of the day crazes the slope of a desert hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1684511489641-BNR4VF0ML0PQP9J2XGAN/dn000539.jpg Illuminations - Solemnity Image code: #dn000539 Last light on the steep upper slopes of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1684511491087-53EJ6JUEZZ8ZCOX5EQM5/dn000778.jpg Illuminations - Yá'át'ééh Image code: #dn000778 Distant rock forms, sacred to the Navajo people, loom above a desert canyon. “Yá'át'ééh” is a Navajo greeting meaning (roughly) “it is good.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1684511489772-7FCBN4UYIXOE82L4F4C0/dn000090.jpg Illuminations - Inner Conflict Image code: #dn000090 The funneling opposite slopes of a desert canyon glowing in the last light of the day. https://guytal.com/seeking-questions-img daily 0.75 2023-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1591809268639-5HLUDR3M7AN2XKSYOZHY/f000024.jpg Seeking Questions - Safe Harbor? 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In recent years they have become rare. When big rains finally arrived after years of drought, I had to be out to greet them, to revel in the drama of powerful thunderstorm and the quiet beauty between the rains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1661274481605-1ZNDJT43T03SBEK22BQQ/f000805.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Ephemeral Bounty Image code: #f000805 Few things stir my heart as the sight of desert water pockets brimming with water, alive with the playful antics of small crustaceans whose eggs had laid dormant for years waiting for a good rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1661274479912-ZYSTKN143XPQYKC97GW1/dn000846.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Molten Gold Image code: #dn000846 A pool reflecting golden light nestled along the path of a small creek carving its way down a sandstone slope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1646939523607-9KBL52OX2LW0TTXHBR31/de003181.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Restless Sleep Image code: #de003181 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1646939523200-E5UMK6B5NNUFBEFC6T00/f000446.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - In the Beginning Image code: #f000446 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1646939526563-BRS61ZUURG2G9QQHKI1C/f000547.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Reprieve Image code: #f000547 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115678001-X5W58VVYC9YFGB5S2T0E/f000520.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Streaming Shadows Image code: #f000520 Cloud shadows streaming over a desert landscape during a summer thunderstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115670547-F68F3YXSI5HADM8XB4HJ/f000489.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Afternoon Glow Image code: #f000489 Eroded monoliths and mesa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115678893-GVVQCFY79J5TYJ268N9K/f000539.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Simple Notes Image code: #f000539 Cloud shadows over a desert landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115674364-7PZRDXBBZFJQCKOIRHAD/f000516.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Light Caress Image code: #f000516 Plays of shadow and sunlight over desert buttes as a summer storm moves in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115672476-6CWJQIS4N46G5D6J42UW/f000500.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Playful Rock Image code: #f000500 Jagged and eroded layers of sandstone in a chiaroscuro of light and shadow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115676852-LROG3T2ACA1BCSVAEVG8/f000519.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - The Place Image code: #f000519 A spotlight of sun piercing through thunderstorm clouds illuminates the channel of a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115675799-CQAGY0G5RZTM6M0EOU57/f000518.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Luminous Stroke Image code: #f000518 Light and shadow play during a desert storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115673297-HTOZ7MCQZN30B7L0BEKV/f000515.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Desert Shangri La Image code: #f000515 Momentary rainbow over desert buttes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115675016-1ZDW5Z5NDW7OPNCNL1VE/f000517.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Final Encore Image code: #f000517 Desert butte glowing in a momentary spotlight during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115670624-MKAYKFCG75IR9ZWPEA2B/f000491.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Gentle Apocalypse Image code: #f000491 Hazy view of a desert scene. The air was filled with smoke from numerous wildfires in the West. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115672136-59LLQ80U124IYVKTYT5I/f000508.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Receding Image code: #f000508 Smoke from numerous wildfires lends a surreal apocalyptic mood to desert buttes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115669290-WUPLW6T9FBYH9P9BJFA0/f000384.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Morning Haze Image code: #f000384 Summer haze illuminated by the rising sun in a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1610386970663-NGDUUUPA75AUFO6GSLYO/f000288.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Split Personality Image code: #f000288 A prickly cholla cactus glows in the warm afternoon light of the winter solstice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1610386969006-OAXYGIR4VGSJ8Y7K9Q5K/f000260.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - River Time Image code: #f000260 Last light on steep sandstone cliffs reflecting in a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068194061-LZP0PEY4LTQENF8OMODE/f000245.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Until Tomorrow Image code: #f000245 Last light, seconds before the sun disappeared behind a cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1675889015864-L9UNRLJR6LAXJH5SP7IG/f000937.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Holiday Refuge Image code: #f000937 A sunny Christmas afternoon in the desert, away from the snow and storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068281654-N8OX63UYQJ1AV619GW1P/f000244.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Quiet Awe Image code: #f000244 Canyon walls glowing in late afternoon light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068192367-4GMXICFQLNO4FVKNHXK1/f000243.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Sigh of Relief Image code: #f000243 View from my campsite after a long day of travel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603045705761-YTHX6V2YKD0QEVLI5U04/dn000699.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Joshua Tree Diorama Image code: #dn000699 Joshua Trees, yuccas, and other desert plants before a grand desert vista. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603043170490-32BU721YLLBGZ399JC52/e000001.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - A Lifted Horizon Image code: #e000001 "To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment." ~Walter Pater https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1679853027886-FLJ9CS9XNV8G9JYG1BEC/g000034.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Winter Break Image code: #g000034 Desert spire catching a ray of light, sandwiched between the ominous shadow of clouds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603043690482-A6CTVTZUM00U7K2KDZFJ/dq000003.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - The Illimitable Desert Image code: #dq000003 “Around me stretches the illimitable desert, and far off and near by are the outposts of suffering, struggling, greedy, grumbling humanity. But I don't choose to join on that footing. I'm sorry for it and I help it when I can, but I'll not shoulder its woes. To live is to be happy; to be carefree, to be overwhelmed by the glory of it all. Not to be happy is a living death.” ~Everett Ruess https://guytal.com/hpss daily 0.75 2021-12-21 https://guytal.com/sketches daily 0.75 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562447582-RP02Q8KLA12YIFTXSYIF/de003231.jpg Sketches - Wise Elder Image code: #de003231 Giant old cottonwood tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562447582-RP02Q8KLA12YIFTXSYIF/de003231.jpg Sketches - Wise Elder Image code: #de003231 Giant old cottonwood tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562446626-VTV6SWN8UFHBY1PVVQCD/de002415.jpg Sketches - Strength in Numbers Image code: #de002415 A forest of ponderosa pine trees during a snow storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562446020-ZDSNQM2WWVWQBNEO38JN/de001572_b.jpg Sketches - Open Arms Image code: #de001572 Rocky Mountain Juniper in snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562458181-94BUFH38ISAY7VMJOU22/di002043.jpg Sketches - Storm Stroke Image code: #di002043 Windswept patterns in frosted sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562453657-R690WESIC0SF7IA8I4A1/dh000686.jpg Sketches - Infinitude Image code: #dh000686 The rocky and sedimented canyon of a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562463706-BW2SEF4957HT5634MCKT/dn001007.jpg Sketches - Desert Islands Image code: #dn001007 Small desert hills carved and eroded by water and wind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562451134-XJZZ2JZ6DW6L6NK04FOD/dh000528.jpg Sketches - Disciples Image code: #dh000528 A copse of scrub oak in the snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562462286-98XWZ4Z1HEK0QLNKLKS4/dn000096.jpg Sketches - Conclave Image code: #dn000096 Gambel oaks huddled over tufts of grass during snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562461923-QB7ZLXSQ5QB7GH1X2KT9/di002049.jpg Sketches - E Unum Pluribus Image code: #di002049 A single scrub oak, split into many small trunks, during snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562463071-QPEVFJNAPR8EFF1OKW25/dn000234.jpg Sketches - Reductionism Image code: #dn000234 The slopes of desert badlands accentuated with snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562460422-YSUUCFC7K2MT9QDPOUSN/di002046.jpg Sketches - To Remind Myself Image code: #di002046 Snow-accentuated profiles of barren desert hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562464281-G21531UHX0BLBNI7V7M7/dn001243.jpg Sketches - Broad Strokes Image code: #dn001243 Long view of desert badlands during a winter snow storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562448715-JR8B4QPVU9JND8EJ98X6/de003234.jpg Sketches - Unforgotten Image code: #de003234 Stunted aspen trees encrusted by windswept snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562459789-GSVI6J1B5H4VVV0DFJK5/di002045.jpg Sketches - Details Matter Image code: #di002045 Snow-encrusted cottonwoods and willows growing along a river at the foot of desert badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562447763-T2LFEM3JTBX3QDRZT6J4/de003233.jpg Sketches - Broken and Defiant Image code: #de003233 An isolated grove of aspen trees, their branches broken by a heavy winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562455368-WGY7Q974VNW33L7U6MXF/di000554.jpg Sketches - Line of Defense Image code: #di000554 Fir trees bearing the brunt of a winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562451669-PO5LVD5FBYRHSDIFOJB3/dh000576.jpg Sketches - Closing Ranks Image code: #dh000576 A row of poplar trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562455932-ZMMFWTXYX5T4ND7OHER2/di000599_m.jpg Sketches - Thinly Veiled Image code: #di000599 Young aspen trees, bare for the winter, growing densely on a mountainside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562457717-V1P1J6FVDSNACC4GP68P/di001978.jpg Sketches - Beacon in the Storm Image code: #di001978 The summit of a desert mountain emerges momentarily from the fury of a winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562449172-PWMJVBLZZLJFCOLXXM4N/de003235.jpg Sketches - Desert Rain Image code: #de003235 Desert mountain engulfed in clouds, soaking in the goodness of a rare rainstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562456909-2A8CP3RSLKJO064QA7T7/di001827.jpg Sketches - Winter Blindness Image code: #di001827 The foothills of a desert mountain loom from the snow as the mountain beyond them is blotted out by the storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562450204-7DH5XJG9T0T4QNB7B60T/dh000440.jpg Sketches - Accentuations Image code: #dh000440 Small sand dune ripples accentuated by dark mineral dust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562458957-V7YV7VD4D4UPIDVUI831/di002044.jpg Sketches - Wind Doodles Image code: #di002044 Patterns of dark minerals deposited by winds over sand dunes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562445317-QCX0OH9PRP0HK6M43C9B/de000024.jpg Sketches - The Long Way Home Image code: #de000024 A lone coyote dwarfed by a vast snow-covered dunes field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562453192-JD299ZEZBPQSFI1NQYLW/di000543.jpg Sketches - Minding the Mound Image code: #di000543 A dome of grasses peeks out from under a thick layer of snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562456637-2PQ6MPC2JFTNHT6JMKEP/di001821.jpg Sketches - Erasure Image code: #di001821 Grasses buffeted by wind and snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562454248-6W7UXWRJFQ8QIIZP310B/di000551.jpg Sketches - Scribbles Image code: #di000551 Delicate grasses in snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1677872172827-JWLKOLM1RH0BV1U2UJQT/de001556_b.jpg Sketches - The Way Out, Maybe Image code: #de001556 A stony path through a narrow slot canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1677872174117-9CR646OASVQVON66OMAW/dh000398.jpg Sketches - Into Uncertainty Image code: #dh000398 Mist-filled desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1677872172894-K31YJA51T0FB1NOYA1I3/de001561_b.jpg Sketches - The Crooked and Narrow Image code: #de001561 A narrow passage through a sandstone slot canyon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744112283-MV2OXNL5GE8M1514T69Q/dh000537.jpg Sketches - Solemn Watchers Image code: #dh000537 Wintering bald eagles perched in a large cottonwood tree, surveying a snow-covered field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744114439-FZ3MDPJJNLI44Q9OTHRU/di001953.jpg Sketches - Frosted Younglings Image code: #di001953 Young aspen trees covered in snow and hoar frost after a winter ice storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744116357-OPC8RPKS9RBNJULGWHT5/dn001242.jpg Sketches - Silent Dance Image code: #dn001242 Cottonwood tree looming out of a foggy, snowy field during a winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744124065-8A7U546Z3HFDSOJCG7Y7/f001091.jpg Sketches - Defiant Remnant Image code: #f001091 Old and desiccated juniper tree snag in an arid wash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744130778-Q5H2C5J5ZS8DIXU1QQ50/g000291.jpg Sketches - Kiss Farewell Image code: #g000291 A strand of seaweed washed on the ocean shore, folded in expressive patterns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744109517-8FE6OWMFBZVW6ZV4UAWD/de000036_b.jpg Sketches - Sign of Life Image code: #de000036 The tips of a manzanita bush sticking out of a thick layer of snow, one of which still hangs on to the previous season’s leaves. https://guytal.com/shadowplay daily 0.75 2023-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1591809245806-28WWWADT8U5M0ELSN3E4/dn001125.jpg Shadowplays - Yes, I Can? Image code: #dn001125 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1591809245806-28WWWADT8U5M0ELSN3E4/dn001125.jpg Shadowplays - Yes, I Can? Image code: #dn001125 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312347354-ROCNQIKDVG9H8EF6K642/dh000641.jpg Shadowplays - Desert Sorcerer Image code: #dh000641 Desert shrub thriving in the thin soil atop a rocky butte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1591809210835-YTUIK6ERFLJJD1P9CTIO/dk000025.jpg Shadowplays - Unbroken Bones? Image code: #dk000025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312351104-RV15YCJ96JJAN75C40FH/di001509.jpg Shadowplays - Canyon Dancer Image code: #di001509 Lone pinyon pine, bent by powerful winds, on the edge of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312354636-0ZKRI1E8ME0K92IXZNKU/dn001127.jpg Shadowplays - The Impossible Dream Image code: #dn001227 Lone indigo bush growing among desert sandstone domes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312363140-KNG77FVGXZM9D2RKY88V/f000960.jpg Shadowplays - Step Into the Light Image code: #f000960 A fox’s footprint on the steep slope of a desert sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312343558-C8SDCUZZ5HR9RPR0AKEM/de002725.jpg Shadowplays - Touched Image code: #de002725 Light fading from desert sand dunes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312342421-8BYT9LZCBPFBJMU2GU85/de000685_b.jpg Shadowplays - Swooning Image code: #de000685 Last light on a desert sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312357837-NJ8T0XNKXIJWUDM71RBP/f000106.jpg Shadowplays - Shadowland Image code: #f000106 Desert butte during a thunderstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312353277-QJF207B4FW125CDU5AI8/dl000191.jpg Shadowplays - Resolute Image code: #dl000191 Desert spire bathed in light and cloud shadows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312358261-GWGTJOVSE6KI7OHX40PB/f000107.jpg Shadowplays - From Here to There Image code: #f000107 Desert scene lit by errant beams piercing through thick cloud cover during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312345438-DEMOPH9782QGEC3PQSQQ/dg000067.jpg Shadowplays - Fractional Fractal Image code: #dg000067 The fractal branching of a dry alluvial wash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312348209-F53RV5Z6NN9NNHS8UWZ9/di000709.jpg Shadowplays - Streaming Image code: #di000709 Light streaming down a split desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312342361-YLPZPPP1EDUTOA5E9OU4/de000257.jpg Shadowplays - Lightfall Image code: #de000257 Light streaming down the slope of a steep desert hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312361335-WWMX95J76YID39QN7Q1B/f000351.jpg Shadowplays - Well of Souls Image code: #f000351 The fluted rim of a deep desert water pocket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312340930-U7FO39Y7AUM0EP1L8CZV/dc000498.jpg Shadowplays - Touch Me Image code: #dc000498 Fluted sandstone polished by flowing water, filled with light colored sand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312340915-SAG9O4PAK6DZ3IHOB1L7/dc000242_b.jpg Shadowplays - Deco Titan Image code: #dc000242 A large sandstone “gargoyle” in a narrow desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312352225-7Q2OGDKZT6R9Q8IBAE5F/dk000025.jpg Shadowplays - Unbroken Bones Image code: #dk000025 Cottonwood tree reduced to strokes of light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312359649-27DF65UIX0I3Q2AY14PT/f000234.jpg Shadowplays - Delicate Fragility Image code: #f000234 Small aspen tree and grasses catching the last of the day’s light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312360720-APGG4N05W8YIDQZ80QE1/f000327.jpg Shadowplays - Bewitched Image code: #f000327 Tips of a dormant cottonwood tree emerging from the shadows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312362499-CMII5V47JNQTZ6ZSJBAH/f000680.jpg Shadowplays - No Purchase Image code: #f000680 Ephemeral light hitting a remote and inaccessible desert cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312349647-VDKKL5KQJO8XRNU9TCW9/di000954.jpg Shadowplays - Swoosh Image code: #di000954 The edge of a sloped desert hill catching the light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312360096-WGTG1LZQF9O5MCD3U0YB/f000308.jpg Shadowplays - Healing Scars Image code: #f000308 Last light over creosote bushes and other desert flora growing on the slopes of a desert mountain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312343792-C2YVMR7PQF9YKLHROLEG/de002478_b.jpg Shadowplays - Repeat After Me Image code: #de002478 Low light crazing the edges of brushy volcanic ridges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312364508-573QQTVDD2HUC46M1YA1/f001026.jpg Shadowplays - Desert Whimsy Image code: #f0001026 Light and shadows streaming over desert buttes during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312345254-0R2CE7RKG3JTU74T9C30/de003236.jpg Shadowplays - Adrift Image code: #de003236 Light and shadow plays on windswept snowdrifts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312354014-ET5QTJARWJ3TSAONX3IX/dn000549.jpg Shadowplays - Bastion Image code: #dn000549 Shrinking patch of sunlight fades away from a desert butte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312356174-OZ9ACY4TYE6SP4TE9ZJ3/e000148.jpg Shadowplays - Stage Left Image code: #e000148 First light catching the profile of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312356685-ZRIQL8SRMTYPR0MFOUAY/e000150.jpg Shadowplays - Disappearing Act Image code: #e000150 Last light on the edge of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312351633-GOLB1EO23PPT809HTSKQ/di001958.jpg Shadowplays - Fleeting Hope Image code: #di001958 Back-lit seed pods of grama grasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312358982-I1491T5JTPI6XU3LG93N/f000134.jpg Shadowplays - Neighbors Chatting Image code: #f000134 Dry yucca stalks and seed pods, set against a steep desert cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312350388-4EYULHSYZF051ZPY2007/di001502.jpg Shadowplays - Ready or Not Image code: #di001502 Lone creosote bush on a desert slope catching the day’s first light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312365087-1SIB1DYDHBU3VRHXK4PS/f001027.jpg Shadowplays - Repose Image code: #f001027 Shaft of light piercing through a thick layer of clouds touches desert rock formations during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312361977-TDNIJXXK99A9XQJT4LEI/f000501.jpg Shadowplays - Subduction Image code: #f000501 Tilted sedimentary layers in a desert formation, catching a beam of light during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312363887-JNBDBVSAC9SOTLB6KWKS/f001025.jpg Shadowplays - Speed of Darkness Image code: #f001025 Shafts of light streaming over a desert landscape during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312357222-N6TC64M3WBFOU34SCQIE/f000021.jpg Shadowplays - Light Island Image code: #f000021 Light crazes the rims of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312355035-XXHW7X48FO3L5PYV7JZF/e000144.jpg Shadowplays - Drifting Apart Image code: #e000144 Light recedes from the slopes of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312355690-REJ9QQM17HB7UQV2LZ5S/e000146.jpg Shadowplays - The Sharp End Image code: #e000146 Last light fading from the rim of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312349187-CLTYZDMA5MSGROT3DNYD/di000724.jpg Shadowplays - Half Full Image code: #di000724 Rippled patterns along the ridge line of a desert sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312352835-199S9BWHQCWSZ7UHS7IE/dk000078.jpg Shadowplays - Ivories Image code: #dk000078 Light and shadow interleave over ripples in a sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312346945-G256PA8S2XLFEHXV2SAT/dh000439.jpg Shadowplays - Half Empty Image code: #dh000439 Rippled patterns on a desert sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726637599-U55G2E2IVWOH5T7NX10A/de002771_b.jpg Shadowplays - Luminous Caress Image code: #de002771 Soft cloud shadows sweeping over the ramparts of a desolate desert butte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726637708-TFTEG6CPQXNQWHTWNFHF/dn000229.jpg Shadowplays - Foreboding Image code: #dn000229 Ominous cloud shadow sweeping over desert hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726638985-C95W8AOD1H79R0EPUIDP/dn001220.jpg Shadowplays - Reformation Image code: #dn001220 Rounded foothills in succession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726639273-PTYR2WDWXQ3F87U6ETX7/di001895.jpg Shadowplays - Rapid Descent Image code: #di001895 Cloud shadows on the sloping walls of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726640709-0BSQ5ZKUOOF21UM0IHBI/f000554.jpg Shadowplays - Restful Perch Image code: #f000554 Large boulder perched on the edge of a canyon rim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726640912-24CWHZTP1C2O3NZ72CWF/f000534.jpg Shadowplays - Hush Now Image code: #f000534 Shaft of light illuminates the slope of a deep desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726642324-SSP8XE7MDOPKV5TNPAE7/f000460.jpg Shadowplays - Meandering Light Image code: #f000460 Cloud shadows drifting over a canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726642538-S690ANT6TGXHT7LN82BM/e000197.jpg Shadowplays - Chiaro Obscuro Image code: #e000197 Cloud shadows drift over a rugged mountainside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726644095-UF0N89UTHQTKDPNZUTAQ/di001896.jpg Shadowplays - Not Today Image code: #di001896 Intersecting ridges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726644346-PB5LQQX3Y1MF3AN3MBSC/de002585_b.jpg Shadowplays - Concerto in Sand and Wind Image code: #de002585 Ripples, desert plants, and animal tracks in the sand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726645596-52P29P1UQ44OCQTDYXVW/dk000072.jpg Shadowplays - The Long Journey Image code: #dk000072 Fox tracks in a field of sand dunes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726646038-F8VVP04PWWRZFLHGU90G/dk000074.jpg Shadowplays - Softness on Softness Image code: #dk000074 Fox tracks on a sand dune. https://guytal.com/celestia daily 0.75 2025-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478175529-T9CH4RX64ID7R7C3WRLO/dh000639.jpg Celestia - Once Upon Image code: #dh000639 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478175529-T9CH4RX64ID7R7C3WRLO/dh000639.jpg Celestia - Once Upon Image code: #dh000639 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478176689-DSAJI21XY51N9WOI90FY/dl000483.jpg Celestia - Gravitational Waves Image code: #dl000483 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478177779-FIBHGBZAM4I65Q7F9LWS/dn000610.jpg Celestia - Tell, Don't Show Image code: #dn000610 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1698158302261-AJQ4WJ794ED8BP79IS6P/dn001032.jpg Celestia - Laughing Stars Image code: #dn001032 “People have stars that are not the same. For some, who travel, stars are guides. For others, they are nothing but small lights. For others, who are scientists, they are problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent. You will have stars like nobody has…” “What do you mean?” “At night, when you look at the sky, as I will be living on one of them, as I will laughing on one of them, then it will be for you as if all stars were laughing. You will have stars that can laugh!” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478180857-0FTI0393QK2G6NS38BU5/dn001110.jpg Celestia - Look Carefully Image code: #dn001110 “It is, for me, the most beautiful and saddest landscape in the world. That’s the same landscape as the one of the previous page, but I drew it once again to show you it well. It is here where the little prince appeared on Earth, and then disappeared. Look carefully at this landscape to be sure you recognize it, if you travel one day to Africa, in the desert. And, if you manage to go through it, I beg you, don’t rush, wait a bit just underneath the star! If, then, a child comes to you, if he laughs, if he has golden hair, if he does not answer to your questions, you will guess who he is. So be nice! Do not make me so sad: write to me quick telling he came back…” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478179347-GZ2T126W00BN3ZS6O1LK/dn000769.jpg Celestia - Asteroid B-612 Image code: #dn000769 “If I had told you those details on Asteroid B-612 and gave you its number, it’s because of grown-ups. Grown-ups like digits.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705182743260-9DKBQLHEUWBSQE5LFK0F/de003131.jpg Celestia - Farewell for Now Image code: #de003131 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705182743466-6CFY2FEG0ZGJZ8SFN8SZ/di002050.jpg Celestia - Cavernous Space Image code: #di002050 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705182744383-CV9TCXHQTACJ1JKCD8XG/di002059.jpg Celestia - Waiting for the Prince Image code: #di002059 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478177294-UDM0DQ3FYJNIM8LQV255/dn000284.jpg Celestia - Edge of the World Image code: #dn000284 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478185592-2C0O9XO03E8NP9MY8BSJ/f000066.jpg Celestia - Liquid Grit Image code: #f000066 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478181959-NNFGFFASX9RER0IMK477/e000184.jpg Celestia - Apocalyptic Image code: #e000184 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478183878-MQ9QKB2ULBEBQX558CO2/f000056.jpg Celestia - Motion and Change Image code: #f000056 "The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still, — and there was so much sky, more than at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there, under one's feet, but what one saw when one looked about was that brilliant blue world of stinging air and moving cloud. Even the mountains were mere ant-hills under it. Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!" —Willa Cather https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478185064-AKYOMBXZ275WHQT8QWJE/f000060.jpg Celestia - Starry, Starry Night Image code: #f000060 “Now, I think I know what you tried to say to me How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free They would not listen, they're not listening still Perhaps they never will” —Don McLean https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478190329-OFJH2BPHCZ58FQLEEICW/f000999.jpg Celestia - This Then Image code: #f000999 "This then is life, Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions. How curious! how real! Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun." —Walt Whitman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478191072-1LKBCM9JP5R8GEPFI2WB/g000078.jpg Celestia - Memories of Eld Image code: #g000078 “Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld! Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night! I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.” —Edgar Allan Poe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478192436-MIVKSS62AQKECKW9WAKM/g000080.jpg Celestia - Fleeting Foam Image code: #000080 "Thus, like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a single individual lifts himself for an hour so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star and appears to all who see it as something eternal and as a happiness of their own.” —Hermann Hesse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685999732310-W70UNQHSEXTCDHCTA3NF/g000079.jpg Celestia - Unbelievable Dignity Image code: #g000079 "The moon came out clear — I stood watching the barns — trees — ground — hills — the sky-an unbelievable dignity.” —Alfred Stieglitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478189010-C4WLH1GOGXLYJHRI6UDB/f000750.jpg Celestia - Celestial Traveler Image code: #f000750 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478188521-B0ELODP84YO7802N5KMB/f000749.jpg Celestia - Light Streaker Image code: #f000749 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478189583-S8SBCWYRSAW8UR5GKCK6/f000790.jpg Celestia - Moonstone Image code: #f000790 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1746130695963-Z3EM6UEPTY9K3GMTNKM2/f000074.jpg Celestia - Between Sand and Stars Image code: #f000074 "Here I possessed nothing in the world. I was no more than a mortal strayed between sand and stars, conscious of the single blessing of breathing. And yet I discovered myself filled with dreams." —Antoine de Saint-Exupery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478188069-KMJW5TTNCHVC7NZ9XWGR/f000723.jpg Celestia - Let It Storm Image code: #f000723 “There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and your pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing, don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen, you are not a Greek, you are not harmonious, or the master of yourself, you are a bird in the storm. Let it storm!” —Hermann Hesse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478181198-BT82NARCTL395RA5L2ZZ/dn001111.jpg Celestia - Flatland Image code: #dn001111 “I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows only hard and with luminous edges and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said "my universe": but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things.” —Edwin A. Abbot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478183434-G95STY4QFQQFDT2QFRKA/f000052.jpg Celestia - Desert Dawn Image code: #f000052 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478175905-T46L3O8FCEK53YOG55OF/di001759.jpg Celestia - Celestial Miniature Image code: #di001759 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478187428-4K5WMRH3V19EQ1EZFLFE/f000695.jpg Celestia - Reentry Image code: #f000695 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478543540-S0WMMWHQ9A54ONFY2468/f000024.jpg Celestia - Safe Harbor Image code: #f000024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478543694-MMX6MM904LTMFGK9EKZH/f000072.jpg Celestia - Warp Speed in Slow Motion Image code: #f000072 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478544868-DJD8GYJVIEA36ODK8X96/f000073.jpg Celestia - Strong Emergence Image code: #f000073 https://guytal.com/ponderosa daily 0.75 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598493596-4OL3X0DL0JJ37WILW8SH/dn000320.jpg Ponderosa - Marks the Spot Image code: #dn000320 The skeletons of ponderosa pines killed in a wildfire, bathed in fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598493596-4OL3X0DL0JJ37WILW8SH/dn000320.jpg Ponderosa - Marks the Spot Image code: #dn000320 The skeletons of ponderosa pines killed in a wildfire, bathed in fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598489814-CHAQ2R1F3H3KBT7YI4JL/di001771.jpg Ponderosa - Ponderosa in Blue Image code: #di001771 Ponderosa pines covered in hoar frost and new snow. This image was made in 2016. These trees have since died due to climate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598489061-9EZ1QCV7OH8FO0G0UBPQ/di001628.jpg Ponderosa - Vigil Image code: #di001628 The graceful snag of a ponderosa pine in a mixed pine/aspen forest, bathed in fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598498720-KDVP8UFT0G7HS1FMUY7S/f000146.jpg Ponderosa - Cold Fire Image code: #f000146 Scrub oak in autumn color, growing among ponderosa pines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598496481-ZRLJL16LUWMJ80RCK8DM/dn000905.jpg Ponderosa - Beautiful Skeletons Image code: #dn000905 Dead ponderosa pines, killed in a wildfire, stand bare against the golden autumn foliage of young aspen trees. This once-sustainable cycle of aspens and conifers supporting each other (young aspen sprout after a wildfire, and provide shade for conifer seeds to germinate) is now broken. Due to climate change, this forest will likely never again support conifers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598495589-0BR8VQVR82IN5UOFIIGD/dn000476.jpg Ponderosa - Sheltered Refugees Image code: #dn000476 Ponderosa pines that had survived a wildfire stand tall among their dead brethren and new growth os aspen trees in golden autumn foliage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696608773488-5IK3WUZL5KL9W54WN4ZD/g000126.jpg Ponderosa - Transient Verdancy Image code: #g000126 Alpine creek lined in lush vegetation flowing through a forest of ponderosa pine trees. This image hides a grim truth: the great pines are dying. This scene will become a skeleton forest within just a few more years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598480531-NGCZCRB6C10VU7HVBBT1/di001260.jpg Ponderosa - Water Supply Image code: #di001260 Ponderosa pines growing in precarious perches among sandstone cliffs, fed by water from monsoon rains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598484910-CLJX44HN7MJ25VX4CMFN/di001324.jpg Ponderosa - Early Winter Palette Image code: #di001324 First snow (streaking diagonally across the frame) falling on alpine lake flanked by grasses, birch trees, and ponderosa pines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598796700-U16HRHCT47V3C4YPMPUK/di001374.jpg Ponderosa - Emerald Forest Image code: #di001374 Ponderosa pine forest lined in manzanita bushes and lichen covered boulders, filled with fog during an early winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598490279-HJIEQ0P9OU0ZEUTCD4G7/di001990.jpg Ponderosa - Deep Breath Image code: #di001990 Ponderosa pine forest lined in fallen needles and lichen covered boulders, filled with fog during a spring rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598488430-IOQC3IZSWKQHN98PL7N8/di001626.jpg Ponderosa - Spirit World Image code: #di001626 Ponderosa pine forest filled with fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598493390-ABMVSD0MOR38ABKYZHTM/di002032.jpg Ponderosa - A Breath of Winter Image code: #di002032 Ponderosa pines covered in hoar frost during a gentle snowfall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598487121-VK73022TNFU31FUSQ1PE/di001602.jpg Ponderosa - Early Spring Image code: #di001602 Ponderosa pines covered in bright green needles in spring, covered in light snow from one of the season’s last storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598492111-O8HBBA64RVUMMZOXOB2F/di002021.jpg Ponderosa - Rime Rhyme Image code: #di002021 Ponderosa pines and aspen tree covered in rime ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598502137-FYI0YQYFX3VE4SCRTLZE/f000700.jpg Ponderosa - Mourning Light Image code: #f000700 New amaranth shrubs in autumn color growing along the floor of a ponderosa pine forest just a few weeks after all trees were killed by a summer wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598508995-36IBZZWC6EEMG4XDSWSO/f001062.jpg Ponderosa - Final Memory Image code: #f001062 Eerie charred skeletons of ponderosa pines killed by a summer wildfire glow in the last light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598501508-3U1PUVIEBXFPADXKMYDV/f000699.jpg Ponderosa - End of Our Errors Image code: #f000699 New amaranth bushes in autumn color growing among the charred remains of dead ponderosa pines killed in a wildfire. The scene reminded me of these words by Albert Camus: “In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598482952-L0S0TCDLGUIJY9S9TD0S/di001282_c.jpg Ponderosa - Oak Reclamation Image code: #di001282 Scrub oak in autumn color reclaims a mountainside formerly covered in ponderosa pines that burned in a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598481051-AWMNN1PWXZBZES5LDTJ5/di001281.jpg Ponderosa - Among the Skeletons Image code: #di001281 Skeletons of large ponderosa pines killed by a wildfire, stand among scrub oaks in autumn color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598483781-KFF7Q1OKFG7Q4J5UY74F/di001283.jpg Ponderosa - Impermanent Scars Image code: #di001283 Ponderosa pine skeletons stand among scrub oak in autumn color, several years after a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598503872-8M7YF19PQSJ3BOW6ZDLO/f000788.jpg Ponderosa - Solemn Beauty Image code: #f000788 This deceptively peaceful scene is in fact an ecosystem collapsing. The large ponderosa pines all show signs of decline and will likely perish within a couple of years. The manzanita bushes covering the ground appear to be in autumn color, but this image was made in the peak of summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598478644-DZZAIROB2H4AJPSRO7AS/de001853.jpg Ponderosa - The Way We Were Image code: #de001853 A healthy community of aspens among ponderosa and pinyon pines is one of few now remaining. Conifers are now dying at a rapid rate throughout the Southwestern US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598495093-A337OC8QA7H02XUZ9332/dn000331.jpg Ponderosa - Break in the Storm Image code: #dn000331 A shaft of sunlight pierces through thick monsoon thunderstorm clouds to illuminate a deep canyon, seen from the high slopes of a plateau covered in ponderosa pine and other trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598486507-6XDJXTBPAKCQYH0GFDAE/di001530.jpg Ponderosa - Final Stand Image code: #di001530 An old recently-dead ponderosa pine, stripped of the last of its needles, remains standing to receive the season’s first snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598491766-Y11CI7ISUD78NDE9OGIB/di001993.jpg Ponderosa - Light Frosting Image code: #di001993 Ponderosa pines growing against a sandstone wall, covered in hoar frost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598485357-C3RYAOB7YZRH17UKWMXA/di001475.jpg Ponderosa - Winter Tremor Image code: #di001475 A gust of wind shakes off a small avalanche of snow from the branches of ponderosa pines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598500411-EK7WOTSES4MO14R4CS8H/f000574.jpg Ponderosa - Forest Elegy Image code: #f000574 Blooming goldenrod and buckwheat line the floor of a ponderosa pine forest shortly after a wildfire killed all trees. This young tree, still holding on to its needles, was likely just a few years old. Older trees can live to be several hundred years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598504546-JL984AP5M3414UT0ANVS/f000793.jpg Ponderosa - Unfulfilled Life Image code: #f000793 A dead young ponderosa pine, still holding onto its needles, surrounded by the skeletons of its elders after a wildfire destroyed the forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598507532-5DRIY950E2Z7EYRQ4BZR/f000902.jpg Ponderosa - Among the Departed Image code: #f000902 Goldenrod flowers fill the floor of a recently burned forest of ponderosa pine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598498006-O2SZU4EVOS8CHNGEBLLM/f000145.jpg Ponderosa - Afternoon Glow Image code: #f000145 Afternoon sun filters through ponderosa pines to light up scrub oak in autumn foliage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598508607-HGUNI396TVVCTL7FZ5MZ/f001061.jpg Ponderosa - Not Forgotten Image code: #f001061 Fallen ponderosa pine lays among manzanita bushes. Most (likely all) of these beautiful giants will be gone from the Southwest US by the end of the century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598499644-VKLWQDVW485D5K8NWRPZ/f000147.jpg Ponderosa - Vivid Memory Image code: #f000147 The view from my campsite in a beautiful ponderosa pine forest lined with scrub oaks. Each afternoon, light filtered through the big trees, adding a warm glow to the colorful autumn foliage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598497285-IX9AWPZS4M6JBJQ2X2UV/e000019.jpg Ponderosa - Undefeated Image code: #e000019 Ponderosa pine holding onto a small rocky perch above a steep canyon. These trees usually grow straight up. The twisted shape and exposed roots of this tree suggest it had weather extreme conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598505907-JG9H5TR3T881HT03RYKZ/f000813.jpg Ponderosa - Awaiting What May Come Image code: #f000813 Solitary ponderosa pine catching the last light of the day, standing tall on its perch on the rim of a steep canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598506750-QC8MOBYAKQIVPWRQ7NPX/f000815.jpg Ponderosa - Together Til the End Image code: #f000815 Twin young ponderosa pines stand vibrantly on the edge of a deep desert canyon. Alas, they will likely succumb to the effects of the changing climate in the next few years before reaching maturity, as so many of their neighbors already had. https://guytal.com/floral-drama-imgs daily 0.75 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303292654-HZAJAAFW6690OO0NY6GB/de000192_b.jpg Floral Drama - Try to Forget Image code: #de000192 Mule’s Ears in bloom against a dramatic backdrop of a spring storm over a desert mountain range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303292654-HZAJAAFW6690OO0NY6GB/de000192_b.jpg Floral Drama - Try to Forget Image code: #de000192 Mule’s Ears in bloom against a dramatic backdrop of a spring storm over a desert mountain range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303444416-P4VVUJHD48BFYTJVD486/dg000277_b.jpg Floral Drama - Right Now is Good Image code: #dg000277 Daisies in bloom against a lichen covered rock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303297830-P1B4JAZ8U3E0G7X048W7/f001093.jpg Floral Drama - Nothing, Matters Image code: #f001093 Mule’s Ears blooming at the edge of a sand dune against a slab of sandstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303299579-CIUYT2JVF2LZ08Z0EAYO/g000189.jpg Floral Drama - Thrownness Image code: #g000189 Sunray in bloom against a distant desert mountain range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303298340-MBLVPU8DD7KSLJ2514M6/g000068.jpg Floral Drama - Small Indulgences Image code: #g000068 Winding Mariposa Lily in bloom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303300288-WCYNSGKRGFP2XQX7GFOC/g000196.jpg Floral Drama - Stay Weird Image code: #g000196 Rare bear poppy in bloom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303286819-3H7530R25P0BD9FXNB4Z/da000443_b.jpg Floral Drama - Curiosity Image code: #da000443 Primrose blooming among iron concretions known as moqui marbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303302160-39RA79M3PJ3XZTGNQWRG/g000272.jpg Floral Drama - Where Are We? 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Image code: #h000013 The very last autumn foliage on a cottonwood tree and the remnants of rabbitbrush flowers glowing in early winter light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076269706-YQ5EN08B7WELDHWBQMUM/dn001116.jpg Recent Additions - In a Dream Image code: #dn001116 A cottonwood tree, dormant and leafless for the winter, in the faint glow of light reflecting off a canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076273630-KMEPTJMRW61SDPEKVM7J/f000862.jpg Recent Additions - Precarious Survival Image code: #f000862 Cottonwood trees in autumn colors clinging to a sand bar in a flood-prone canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076268622-Y4X3UQCRHYSY97DJVQGI/di001679.jpg Recent Additions - Eternal Rest Image code: #di001679 Autumn light an cloud shadows sweeping over a surreal desert landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076266868-8PTTCH2S8TPNUK6F65BG/de000685.jpg Recent Additions - To All, A Good Night Image code: #de000685 Remote sand dunes catching the fast-fading last light of the day before darkness sets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773076267466-8CB7J0HTLUOOFRJAZCLI/di001675.jpg Recent Additions - The Moment Before Image code: #di001675 Storm clouds casting shadows on a desert landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303304458-1DL12F8SIACOIAGFUCAU/g000301.jpg Recent Additions - Traces in Time Image code: #g000301 Large petroglyphs of bird tracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303301430-HHRJWLHFFITFQ2B02Z4D/g000255.jpg Recent Additions - Sign Language Image code: #g000255 Hand prints beside a small granary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303295487-EBX5XIM0W0K2VXAUW49L/dn001260.jpg Recent Additions - Game Piece Image code: #dn001260 Ancient split twig figurine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303303401-7YTL44C46LZI7472UA6T/g000297.jpg Recent Additions - Another One Not Wasted Image code: #g000297 Old juniper tree and grasses glowing in the twilight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303292370-VHKJFU372TEM4IGWYJG8/dc001384.jpg Recent Additions - Aloneness Image code: #dc001384 Lone cottonwood tree growing in a large water pocket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1760303295749-8JP3IKT69T7IHZ1WNPQJ/dn000367.jpg Recent Additions - Happy Prophet Image code: #dn000367 Joshua tree glowing in the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744118207-ZR13L4G27K4TCU7WZTE2/dp000109.jpg Recent Additions - Glistening Path Image code: #dp000109 Fluted walls and shimmering mud in a slot canyon after a flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744129944-EON98CA1OHMK7WVG48S8/g000275.jpg Recent Additions - Adagio for Light and Rock Image code: #g000275 The shadowplay of passing clouds over a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744109472-S3KO26DYIJ2QNSWL5DEL/cm000002.jpg Recent Additions - Geologic Ballet Image code: #cm000002 A log lodged between a slot canyon walls, where it was deposited by a flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744125929-LYLYPW5JF46LSWDBQI2Y/g000140.jpg Recent Additions - Distorted Harmony Image code: #g000140 Reflections of reeds in the rippled waters of an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744112151-A25FREFEHX13GCHAJL8Q/de003240.jpg Recent Additions - Aswirl Image code: #de003240 Swirling foam patterns near the outlet of a small alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744123117-B9WT6XXLYJ9H6AO7065M/f001023.jpg Recent Additions - Looking Back Image code: #f001023 Fallen oak leaves floating in a canyon pool, facing toward the branches they were once attached to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705096165584-LXJE9YRCJSCLVORB8SKY/g000109.jpg Recent Additions - Silence and Desolation Image code: #g000109 Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld! Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night! I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength. —Edgar Allan Poe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062446051-7MM439PIRTCG768KR3EA/g000220.jpg Recent Additions - She Awakens Image code: #g000220 Ash tree straddling large boulders in a canyon, in autumn foliage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062453501-AJUGKFX2UKUFZNXR0Z35/f000302.jpg Recent Additions - Prophetic Joshua tree yucca growing among a thick field of desert trumpet buckwheat plants. These plants have been thriving in areas formerly occupied by other native plants due to climate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062457178-KOPO9EOX56XC6RS2LNB6/dl000260.jpg Recent Additions - Fluid Discontinuity Image code: #dl000260 Travertine ridges on the slopes of a warm spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062458306-A5955P54A4DXAV5J23RN/dl000240.jpg Recent Additions - Absorption Image code: #dl000240 Cottonwood leaf slowly sinking into wet clay mud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062455998-J5YD7ZTZL67T87Z828ZH/dl000263.jpg Recent Additions - Dark Matter Image code: #dl000263 Concretions and patterns in travertine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1699625563008-0EYF8DC40QQ5B079MKC5/g000125.jpg Recent Additions - Ephemera Image code: #g000125 Aspen leaves floating over the rippled reflections of reeds in an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1699625563539-T9VOB43MHHD9EQZVHE0P/g000126.jpg Recent Additions - Transient Verdancy Image code: #g000126 Mountain creek flowing among a ponderosa pine forest. Oaks and currant bushes in autumn color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1699626107604-ATCGX2PCC2159KYO5F62/g000127.jpg Recent Additions - Seasonal Reflections Image code: #g000127 Raindrops hitting the surface of an alpine lake reflecting aspen trees in autumn color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1695393576779-GDME1DXUFX0BMZMUJYRU/g000123.jpg Recent Additions - Morning Whisper Image code: #g000123 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1695393574681-H0LTYOCTY2NNQFU22D6R/f001045.jpg Recent Additions - Spring Thunder Image code: #f001045 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1695393575402-LF207VYWCPEASL7IRBBF/f001050.jpg Recent Additions - Solitary Communion Image code: #f001050 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1695393576459-CJI9C3JB3ZYBAKE9QD4M/g000116.jpg Recent Additions - The Big Quiet Image code: #g000116 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1695393574426-QNRNOVIT4SHJDKY4RH4J/f000463.jpg Recent Additions - Distant Sanctuary Image code: #f000463 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1695393575826-GM77TOBP9RT2RA8SDZYX/g000039.jpg Recent Additions - Forgetfulness Image code: #g000039 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1684511491709-DJ1PC99DKJHSGAF9R6GZ/f000970.jpg Recent Additions - A Beautiful Mess Image code: #f000970 Dormant young cottonwood trees, rabbitbrush, and tamarisk shoots against a bare hillside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1684511493429-YTVW6LLNZVSGS3E9T0XY/g000005.jpg Recent Additions - Riparian Nursery Image code: #g000005 Young cottonwood and willow trees beginning to change color in early spring, before their first leaves sprout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1684511492481-TOAYWO8ZK5ADN3HTK36T/f001031.jpg Recent Additions - Rosy Outlook Image code: #f001031 A row of wild rose bushes in front of dormant aspen trees . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375365088-5AQ63DBBEBBIEO7RLSPP/g000051.jpg Recent Additions - Motte and Bailey Image code: #g000051 Desert plants in prolific bloom at the feet of an arid mountain range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375366674-MPY1VT61349JXJT4FL4W/g000055.jpg Recent Additions - Self Defense Image code: #g000055 Desert flowers in prolific bloom, protected by abundant cholla cactus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375365039-C81FRU8Q00DD6ZO77VPD/g000049.jpg Recent Additions - Odorous Morning Image code: #g000049 “Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.” —Walt Whitman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375876432-ZXAC4MS2CESELCXJL4JH/g000053.jpg Recent Additions - Pie in the Sky Image code: #g000053 Storm cloud and virga (rain that evaporates before reaching the ground) above a desert landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375875442-G91WXPLLVYT8OQBE2L3K/f000977.jpg Recent Additions - A Midnight Dreary Image code: #f000977 Moon surrounded by colorful aura (“moonbow”) and streaming clouds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375875739-ETFLNVM8FNSZJQ8IB8B6/g000041.jpg Recent Additions - Mutable Solace Image code: #g000041 Sunlight piercing through thick storm clouds illuminating desert buttes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570970377-8GLU44DHP9MLRIL1UMAA/f000999.jpg Recent Additions - Mind Games Image code: #f000999 Sandstone pattern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676571117428-SW7NCM92BYH0HXQK3BQT/f000998.jpg Recent Additions - The Slow Journey Image code: #f000998 Colorful mineral deposits in sandstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570972456-1UMZ6NRO85WGE4MQC71B/dn001025.jpg Recent Additions - Good Boy Image code: #dn001025 Mineral deposits in sandstone in the shape of a dog’s head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553760988-ECCF43BNNXYWQYK0DSKF/f000951.jpg Recent Additions - Holiday Season Image code: #f000951 The slopes of a desert mountain glowing in late winter light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553759053-HHNDG8VZG3CIFMW9I2G7/f000939.jpg Recent Additions - Petrified Primaries Image code: #f000939 Colorful mineral deposits flowing through sandstone (a geologic phenomenon known as Liesegang banding). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553756553-CBROLCFF26HXVA26CUFV/f000252.jpg Recent Additions - Environmental Recycling Image code: #f000252 Eroded sandstone making its way down a slope of colorful clay. Although we think that the landscape is solid and unchanging, this is only because we are short-lived beings. The earth is constantly eroding and changing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553755269-M2FRPTV1JF6MNHIJH09L/dn001240.jpg Recent Additions - Constant Transition Image code: #dn0001240 Winter snow covering hills that were formerly deposits at the bottom of an ancient seas. The world is constantly changing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553753875-G4AAMXEVZTHDQTM0H0ML/dh000574.jpg Recent Additions - Winter Hope Image code: #dh000574 Juniper tree surrounded by a snow-covered desert landscape as light pierces through the clouds during a winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553763512-J368X6M7DPYAX9RHPDLH/f000968.jpg Recent Additions - Floor of the Sky Image code: #f000968 Low clouds fill a valley between an aspen grove and distant mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1671138813419-K89O7KIKU4B7LSDH6HSZ/f000868.jpg Recent Additions - A Quiet Corner Image code: #f000868 Pooled water and rippled mud remain in a shaded corner of a canyon after a flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1671138813475-47269KLZWB10A705E8QL/f000759.jpg Recent Additions - Hidden Entrance Image code: #f000759 Desert creek vanishes into a cavernous grotto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1671139299042-FPQQMBZEE0R1UVRTBMUQ/f000922.jpg Recent Additions - A Desert Dream Image code: #f000922 Desert creek carves its way through arid lands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702710176-NMCVAQMNSN22B7NWMLUY/f000887.jpg Recent Additions - Fallen Youth Image code: #f000887 A dead ponderosa pine sapling glows in a ray of winter sunlight. These trees, known to live for hundreds of years, are now declining in the American West and may be gone entirely from this region before the end of the century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702712578-6AY8L8FYBPPY9STMYXHN/f000917.jpg Recent Additions - Silent Exchange Image code: #f000917 A rock profile and the tip of a cottonwood tree share a narrow beam of sunlight for a few moments each winter morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702704760-Z2TJUHRKEU21LY9RHX6P/f000796.jpg Recent Additions - In Mourning Image code: #f000796 A dark forest of charred, dead ponderosa pines remain standing after a wildfire. These skeleton forests are becoming more common in the American West as the changing climate ravages forest lands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018801403-I7VZ31QWH6A7SIFXST4S/dl000444.jpg Recent Additions - Primordial Image code: #dl000444 Hazy sunlight reflecting among foam patterns below a small desert waterfall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018800207-39L91Q5NXBPM52WN07PD/di001964.jpg Recent Additions - The Sculptor at Work Image code: #di001964 A rare flow of water coming down a normally dry channel during a summer monsoon flash flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018800317-LQ3UW977Q73RC68IEALZ/dl000266.jpg Recent Additions - Glistening Image code: #dl000266 Hazy sunlight reflecting in shallow water flowing over a travertine formation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1664310343905-JAAESM20YED0CO43DKNV/dn000905.jpg Recent Additions - Beautiful Skeletons Image code: #dn000905 Snags of dead firs and ponderosa pines against a backdrop of young aspens in autumn color. This image was made about a decade after a fire burned this formerly forested mountain side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1664310343904-NX0QFE9TDMMGMNE1ONP3/dn000930.jpg Recent Additions - Blue Remnant Image code: #dn000930 Snag of a dead ponderosa pine lying among sagebrush and scrub oak in autumn color. This image was made about a decade after a major fire devastated this forested mountainside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1664310345247-QEB6HSJTH4NBL8BMOB2Y/f000797.jpg Recent Additions - Dancer on the Rim Image code: #f000797 Lone pinyon pine, bent and twisted, holds on to its perch on the rim of a deep canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1661274478356-N3VCF2DMVU24VCH4M4Q6/c000469.jpg Recent Additions - Balancing Act Image code: #c000469 I made this image (on 4x5 film) in the late 1990s. I found this place at the end of a long day’s drive, looking for a place to camp. At the time I didn't think much about sharing the beauty of such places with photographer friends. There were not many of us working in these places. It just so happened that the information got shared and re-shared until it ended up in a photo guidebook, and the place soon became reduced to yet another “photo hotspot” for traveling photographers to check off a list. It is unlikely anyone will ever again experience the thrill of discovering it anew, let alone be able to spend a few days there in solitude. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1661274478382-BDR9C75K1RHKN819F8IG/di001677.jpg Recent Additions - Gargoyle Image code: #di001677 In picking images for this round of updates, I sought nostalgic memories of places I discovered and spent solitary days in, steeped in beauty and silence, but where such experiences are no longer possible. Some of these places have become photographic hotspots. The experience of visiting them will never again be as I have known it. It saddens me to now that landscape photography, which to me has always ensued from love of wild places, has now become a destructive force for these places and the experiences they once harbored. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1661274479910-R2A1E9JJ1RBUGTT6IQU4/f000750.jpg Recent Additions - Celestial Traveler Image code: #f000750 Summing up the theme of images made in places that used to be anonymous and peaceful but no longer are, I now seek images such as this one: images that do not betray their location, composed such that they don’t become popular attractions and a risk to the welfare of the few places remaining where one may still find peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1658688234983-Y215A59CZD7M9PDDMJU8/e000189.jpg Recent Additions - Verdant Intersection Image code: #e000189 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1658688236615-55ZH9HH083JHY5UU0SC5/f000761.jpg Recent Additions - Destination Unknown Image code: #f000761 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1658688237586-PECFNPVUNG9IX3XDCHJ5/f000766.jpg Recent Additions - Edge of the World Image code: #f000766 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639855433988-8XIL35QXO0ALJ9PCVYGN/f000534.jpg Recent Additions - Hush Now Image code: #f000534 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639855436495-ENI4MT7LIVAIHTC4TWOJ/f000554.jpg Recent Additions - Restful Perch Image code: #f000554 An enormous polished rock perched above a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639855434507-F1EBGSNYCIDNVABZAX89/f000542.jpg Recent Additions - The Long Goodbye Image code: #f000542 Deposited by floods, there’s no telling how long the remains of this old juniper trees had been there, on the rim of a deep desert canyon. Perhaps years, perhaps decades or even centuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1670523226677-8QXNQBW0O5J15XQZS03I/dn000762.jpg Recent Additions - Basalt Kaleidoscope Image code: #dn000762 Basalt slot canyon covered in colorful moss and lichen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603043287264-H7S5HNJS15SDFU9II4R5/e000014.jpg Recent Additions - Airy Image code: #e000014 Soft veils of rain drifting over the landscape as a monsoon storm moves in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603045936356-KD8JFN9W4V7ZXGIEXF6Q/dn000724.jpg Recent Additions - Deer Heaven Image code: #dn000724 Deer grazing on new spring grasses on mountain slope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161612247-ZK33GVT0VTK3ZKDCLMB1/dn000071.jpg Recent Additions - Picassolithic Image code: #dn000071 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161625570-52XFNGMRZTH51DOKE6BS/dn001110.jpg Recent Additions - Celestiality Image code: #dn001110 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161611888-SW8VS1WW4ZU0FB637WSG/dn000073.jpg Recent Additions - Phoenix in Wait Image code: #dn000073 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1716302209202-MQ7F42IGHTEPKN17LEBD/g000174.jpg Recent Additions - If You Wish Image code: #g000174 Pagoda buckwheat plant on the rim of a desert hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1716302210128-YDS5WC4608L3YXQG39YA/g000175.jpg Recent Additions - Maybe There Image code: #g000175 Desert canyon corridor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1773259276147-F3TVXTYMVG6KFQ7M718D/e000196.jpg Recent Additions - Desiccated Hydra Image code: #e000196 The skeletal remains of a desert holly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606067165986-SEZAKNUYY7HU70MR8PYS/dp000099.jpg Recent Additions - Broken Heart Image code: #dp000099 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606067396481-BOQP0IW3Q8NSJMXRAOUG/f000149.jpg Recent Additions - Traces Image code: #f000149 Deer hoof prints in a shallow layer of dry blue clay deposited by a canyon flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603047183717-1GJOMO4X6GAOJKFUPZZT/dn000822.jpg Recent Additions - Claynigma Image code: #dn000822 Cracked layer of light-colored mud deposited by a flood over an area of red sand, dotted with raindrop “craters.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639780187889-ZPZ3Q7T2MF24GE7COKGB/f000561.jpg Recent Additions - Edvard's Rock Image code: #f000561 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161666106-W4KA9439H563NQNW7P2Z/f000045.jpg Recent Additions - Rebirth Image code: #f000045 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1682375148903-ZVVCXXPIHAZ88EA3DQ6W/f000429.jpg Recent Additions - Desert Island Image code: #f000429 Desiccating shrub and moqui marbles temporarily holding onto a barren sheet of iron-rich sandstone. https://guytal.com/cottonwoods daily 0.75 2022-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487417523-TN1TBIJLQH1XQFNQF7JE/do000006.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Canyon Meadow Image code: #do000006 A small grassy meadow presided over by ancient cottonwood trees, in a remote desert canyon. Autumn colors are visible in the trees and in the skunk bushes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487452999-SKI89UIJV5ALBI392RXA/do000065.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Canyon Elders Image code: #do000065 Old cottonwood trees show their age not only in impressive size, but also in the depth and complexity of the grooves in their bark. These twins (they likely are genetically identical and sharing one root system) preside over a beautiful grassy patch in a remote canyon. This image was made on the tenth autumn I have camped by these trees. And what a decade it was. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487484448-UUJIUTT7UOX69SYG0JWM/di001298.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Visiting an Old Friend Image code: #di001298 I had known this cottonwood for well over a decade. When we first “met”, it was about half its size in this photograph. At the time of this writing, it still thrives in its unusual setting, in a deep pothole in the sandstone. This sandstone was a dune in the largest sand desert to ever exist on Earth, in the Jurassic period. The cross-bedded lines in the sandstone register the pattern of winds that blew the sand onto this dune about two hundred million years ago. By comparison, human beings existed on Earth for only 200,000-300,000 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487510717-4Y20PB176SCFETUYA0FO/dl000202.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Early to Rise Image code: #dl000202 Green rabbitbrush under a dormant cottonwood not yet awake for spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487536670-YIUHEUCC5MOL86HOAYWR/di001834.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Liberated by Light Image code: #di001834 Sliver of winter sunlight catches the branches of a cottonwood tree usually hiding in the shade of a steep canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487565248-TIW3HCT0FWMUT0XE90H1/di001750.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Sleeping Guard Image code: #di001750 Glowing grasses and rabbitbrush bushes in front of cottonwood lit by reflected red glow from a canyon wall. I have camped by this tree countless times over the years. I came to think of it as guardian and a friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487592079-9WCTS4A7MP5MG36Z7B05/do000005.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Golden Reprisal Image code: #do000005 Cottonwoods had a very good year in 2018, in stark contrast to other deciduous trees, where the effects of climate change have been more readily visible (at times devastatingly so). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487617630-59MWPN6GILV7JNCMGP3Y/dn000968.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Unto Itself Image code: #dn000968 Solitary cottonwood tree in autumn coat in an other-worldly landscape of desert badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487640473-BE8LWGPQYM6K008MG23G/dn000961.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Better than Gold Image code: #dn000961 Not all that glitters is gold, thankfully. Cottonwood in autumn display against a backdrop of blue clay slopes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487673476-QQC7FOG5NHHVH6Q5425C/do000001.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Desert Autumn Celebration Image code: #do000001 A small grove of cottonwood and oak trees in a deep canyon, in autumn display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487709134-K4KTIF2HFUW80QNJ34IZ/dn000960.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Gateway Image code: #dn000960 Cottonwood trees in a meadow filled with willows, growing along a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487735993-PNQ51YDKVRS6VNM7QYNJ/dn000959.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Come Closer Image code: #dn000959 Desert brush and cottonwood tree in autumn display, set against a striped and varnished sandstone cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487829895-D7BDVPFI35WUZUA05N0U/dn000722.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Time to Wake Image code: #dn000722 Bare cottonwood tree against the backdrop of a green mountain slope, in early spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487859566-7RO6YI2V5VFLEAG8RWP6/do000062.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Hopeful Sapling Image code: #do000062 Young cottonwood sapling in autumn color, growing among reeds. Most young cottonwoods in the deep canyons end up swept away by flash floods (although they may take root in a new spot, if they happen to land in a fortuitous place). This one looks to be a couple of years old, so likely has found a good place to set root, and may some day become a giant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487889036-V0SUCO35RYM2TVNMJV6Z/dn000718.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Sweet Dream Image code: #dn000718 A large cottonwood spreads its limbs over a growth of willows and rabbitbrush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487919373-B8R4H9LIFD46K0IRELI3/dn000009.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Slow Dancing Image code: #dn000009 Cottonwood tree in autumn foliage growing by the side of a small desert creek. I like the gesture implied in the curve; it reminded me of a graceful dancer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475421117-1QRIXT61EZNGZMP9SUIM/de001861.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Refuge Image code: #de001861 Cottonwood tree in sandstone crevice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596487975142-0NTMQG8ULAUOLKQI8NBY/dn000568.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Forsaken Path Image code: #dn000568 A solitary walk along a tree-lined canyon path on a quiet winter afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488006896-RIHOLTU0IC041VCXT3OS/dn000019.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Autumn Veil Image code: #dn000019 Backlit cottonwood leaves, hanging from elegant thin branches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488030724-9AG2MPYBETP4SRAJWWZF/dn000775.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Luminous Emergence Image code: #dn000775 New spring foliage on cottonwood tree glows when lit from behind as the late sun is low in the sky, illuminating just the top of the tree, but not the deep wash it grows in. The red leaves are dry remnants still clinging to the tree after last year’s autumn season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488060649-S0JBCU0KIYW4J6BAJHJW/dn000400.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Autumn Revelation Image code: #dn000400 Flaring sun rays piercing through cottonwood tree on an autumn afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488090186-B1H239WHPGUOGD4JMOYV/di000670.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - The Loneliest Season Image code: #di000670 Winter is when we retreat into our thoughts and heated shelters. Those rooted to the landscape persevere in their own way, and like all things left to their own devices for long enough, their stasis is perfected and elegant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488135965-FXBMPDUBHPWDJZP1N5ZL/dn000146.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Winter Minuet Image code: #dn000146 Dormant cottonwood trees engulfed in wintry fog, looking like they are swaying to music only they can hear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488170584-6W1JU0JXG84RGHKF8OUL/di001793.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Frosted Canopy Image code: #di001793 Old cottonwood tree in a canyon, frosted in new snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488195233-91BTSBP84IO9V5DI51DW/dc000351.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Sheltered Image code: #dc000351 Cottonwood tree growing in a deep pothole in a large sandstone dome. A monsoon thunderstorm approaches. This image was made years ago, when this tree was still alive (it is no longer), and few people knew of its location. Today, this area has been “developed,” with a graveled parking area, restroom, and “no-camping” signs. At the time, I used to enjoy camping nearby, sometimes for a week or more without seeing any other people. I liked scrambling to the top of this sandstone dome in the afternoon to watch the warm light fading over the desert as evening fell. I’m a firm believer that turning such places into tourist attractions is as damaging and exploitative as any other industrial use. The place still looks somewhat the same, but it feels nothing like it did when it was wild, remote, and little-visited. That place I knew, no longer exists. Over the years I returned to visit this tree many times. I stopped visiting when it finally died a few years ago, although I drive by the area every now and then, always remembering fondly what it used to be like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488219879-DNHI6FBS9Y94NI78NIEG/di001690.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Badlands Cottonwoods in Autumn Image code: #di0001690 Cottonwood trees in autumn coats growing along a desert river at the base of colorful mineral-rich bentonite clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488247639-WVCRZEO6R1ZG1AMFS249/dn000001.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Sheltering Walls Image code: #dn000001 Cottonwood tree begins to turn into its autumn colors, growing against a the curved wall of a deep canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488277725-0P1RKCC9B2MJCJXY7WG7/dn000017.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Autumn Ornaments Image code: #dn000017 Like decorative ornaments, the golden leaves of a cottonwood tree in autumn color, brighten the canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488323742-VV5BAZCQ4VCPUYIGEJ2J/do000104.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Quiet Chaos Image code: #do000104 A thick growth of cottonwood trees, willows, and desert brush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488368080-N3JVP70B3OD487OH8G5X/di001522.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Early Signs Image code: #di001522 Small buds on cottonwood trees signals the arrival of spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488400720-8V6GNU93HKKKDECUSIIQ/dn000259.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Spring Breeze Image code: #dn000259 New spring foliage on a tall cottonwood tree. A strong wind was blowing, which is evident on close examination of the canopy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488436858-EDX7TOL5BJHTB8S43BI4/di000615.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Thermonuclear Sunrise Image code: #di000615 Winter sun above a cottonwood tree engulfed in fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488471131-1RQL1P09TU3HZ3PS0MU9/di001145.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - The Glowing Season Image code: #di001145 Cottonwood tree in peak autumn color, in the warm glow of light reflecting off steep red canyon walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488497559-94WQS2TKGQXET3482JS0/dc000502.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - The Desert Dreams Image code: #dc000502 Dormant trees and desert brush offer subtle hues in every color of the rainbow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488530224-KE8CUIWV60X9RWR1FLQ6/de002413.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Home for the Holidays Image code: #de002413 A row of cottonwood trees, bare for the winter season, against a backdrop of sandstone cliffs. I made this photograph from one of the local roads in my home town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488555681-EPBV6J3QG7V70W24CFD5/dn001113.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Twisted and Bent Image code: #dn001113 Cottonwood trees still bare just before the eruption of spring. The last of the winter's snow still visible in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488703774-VMMB799UV59BLBTBBOTK/dh000261.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Moments Away Image code: #dh000261 Fallen cottonwood rests on a thin and textured sheet of ice in the shaded edge of a desert creek. Red cliffs lit by the morning sun reflect a golden glow, and the ice will be gone in the coming hours as sunlight reaches this small patch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488732568-OHNXNKF57VXT68WVRUHF/do000074.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - A Moment to Rest Image code: #do000074 Fallen cottonwood leaves resting on wet silt at the bottom of a canyon after a recent flood. The next flood will wash them away for good. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488756790-PQZ633VD6FWDVT04P3BE/di001670.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Canyon Chocolate Image code: #di001670 Fallen autumn cottonwood leaves resting on fresh mud sculpted by a flash flood the previous day. Within a couple of days, this mud will dry and crack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488786209-A6UXWL67DUIM0Y0AKK0O/e000080.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Basking in the Glow Image ID: #e000080 A slender cottonwood tree engulfed in the red glow of autumn sunlight reflecting off the red rock walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488817816-UZ165SQLKTILYW9FOXXE/e000085.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Solitary Witness Image ID: #e000085 Solitary cottonwood tree growing by a remote desert creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488846766-SSP78Y5BW6D6REY2U7US/e000074.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Slenderness Image ID: #e000074 A tall cottonwood tree sheltered in a deep canyon, in autumn color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616339232726-2UU28F23IOS892YFKSI5/f000326.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Spring Will Come Image code: #f000326 Standing bare in late winter, a cottonwood tree awaits the coming of spring in the shade of a sandstone cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616339234131-U65W7COQ2I5FAMJ6MHDZ/f000324.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Almost Spring Image code: #f000324 Still dormant at the end of a long winter, a cottonwood tree flanked by colorful willows and birches is covered in a light dusting of snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616339235277-1PF88ON7VM072QNW9HFY/f000345.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Spring Begins Image code: #f000345 Covered in tiny new buds, this cottonwood is about to unfurl its new leaves as winter comes to an end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1627836702568-JH15HKIYNDNB20OWK2BT/de001702.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Winter Dream Image ID: #de001702 Dormant cottonwood and birch trees by a desert creek in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1627836103995-32IRXWCCVCH69QF20DRI/dn000716.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Blue Slumber Image ID: #dn000716 Dormant cottonwood persevere winter among willows and rabbitbrush bushes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1627836419557-CM5FAJH51CTUEPFHBR82/di001955.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Winter's Rest Image ID: #di001955 Cottonwood tree covered in fresh snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488872490-BQ2GFXC22MZ83C7ORHEE/e000091.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Ode to Everett Image ID: #e000091 A Sonnet for Everett Ruess / By Edward Abbey You walked into the radiance of death through passageways of stillness, stone and light, gold coin of cottonwoods, the spangled shade, cascading song of canyon wren, the flight of scarlet dragonflies at pools, the stain of water on a curve of sand, the art of roots that crack the monolith of time. You know the crazy lust to probe the heart of that which has no heart we could know, toward the source, deep in the core, the maze, the secret center where no bounds hold. Hunter, brother, companion of our days: that blessing you hunted, hunted too; what you were seeking, is what found you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488900606-23L3P13Y0IL7VJ3N218P/e000087.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Evening By a Desert Creek Image ID: #e000087 I backpacked into this remote desert canyon one autumn, and stayed there for a couple of days camped next to a small desert creek. The cottonwood trees were beginning to turn. I found that the absence of humans was most pronounced in the silent twilight hours. These are times generally witnessed only by those prepared to stay the night. The only sound noticeable was the soft gurgling of the small trickle of water among the rocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596488928454-A5Y1TJARW2URYCG9Y6UN/e000093.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Halloween Costume Image ID: #e000093 Cottonwood tree in ghoulish autumn display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1643051954619-P40Q10312OOZB57SAJAI/f000611.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Pas de Deux Image code: #f000611 Cottonwood in glorious autumn coat strikes a ballet pose in a canyon spotlight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1660750335631-655CI5DOVNLI47M6A2TN/f000360.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Graceful Chaos Image code: #f000360 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1643051956376-C9IZ1XXQBBN5U0DFZM0T/f000631.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Spare Abundance Image code: #f000631 Cottonwood tree in autumn foliage reflecting in a canyon pool. The setting reminded me of these words by Edward Abbey: "Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1675887412141-L5DK72IQ3XM760H4PVVP/dh000577.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Tentacles Image code: #dh000577 Snow covered long limbs of cottonwood trees reaching out from the fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1675887413987-0BTVIWXS4WV23ZLMZFHV/f000971.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Muted Grace Image code: #f000971 A dormant cottonwood tree growing among pastel-colored hills and willow trees, quietly awaiting the arrival of spring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1675887412181-25D3QTD69BYS9474UVXX/dn000144.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Ghostly Image code: #dn000144 Dormant cottonwood tree engulfed in snow and fog during a winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1675887825108-V8OD86BCXWXRMWRTFLMO/f000984.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Medusa Image code: #f000984 Dormant cottonwood among desert brush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1646940772253-B21OHBS08VEP3LIYT2CG/f000617.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Undefeated Image code: #f000617 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1646940770682-0GD3TSWC2QGDM52A2ZE9/f000607.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - After the Flood Image code: #f000607 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1671142429818-ZA111TFESOCPWQ0L4GMD/di001485.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Winter Love Image code: #di001485 Cottonwood tree, oaks, phragmites, and other desert brush frosted in snow, against a canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1671142430915-OAFENSJT8K2RLUJHSMBX/di001879.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - In the Pink Image code: #di001879 Cottonwood trees and dormant willows against snow covered badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1671142430042-E9K9JK39YR3ELTCSWWJ1/di001784.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Do Trees Dream? Image code: #di001784 Dormant cottonwood tree, willows, and desert brush in winter, along a desert creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702708126-PPJ6WGXDM3946J33GD3S/f000864.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - A Well Earned Rest Image code: #f000864 Tenacious cottonwood trees eking our a living in a flood and drought prone canyon, glowing in autumn color as another turbulent year comes to an end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702706687-OLB6VVO7S0IWZJYS2ZLN/f000853.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - The Life Zone Image code: #f000853 Cottonwood trees, rabbitbrush, and other desert plants thrive along the narrow channel of a desert river in an area of badlands otherwise almost devoid of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702711713-AS4TZCEL4FA58UIALIQ4/f000898.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - A Gentle Storm Image code: #f000898 Cottonwoods, oaks, and other desert plant in autumn color welcome one of the year’s first winter storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018802933-5S1MQEQU63IVCJUHLYC1/f000363.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Is It Time Yet? Image code: #f000363 Cottonwood tree branch lit by early spring sunlight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018803387-H2R5XHPOPAADHLA3F4MG/f000725.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Spring Hope Image code: #f000725 Early spring foliage on cottonwood tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018801788-CYWVCKDM6WTHNJGPB0BJ/dn000594.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - For a Minute a Day Image code: #dn000594 Long-dead small desert shrub gets a daily spotlight for a few moments each morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1651083509263-7PH97K3OGX9S71P17JGH/f000703.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Tegularius Image code: #f000703 I’ve had Hermann Hesse on my mind as I visited with these cottonwood trees as they began to sprout new leaves in early spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1651083511538-M78HGNG7SHAJHB62VJAF/f000712.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Varieties of Time Image code: #f000712 Cottonwood tree and tafoni wall, in early spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1651083511826-PK9KZMU1VS4N6T2FKH64/f000713.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Siddhartha Image code: #f000713 I’ve had Hermann Hesse on my mind as I visited with these cottonwood trees as they began to sprout new leaves in early spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570972587-P9D3YTE9N968T1FZ2B0K/de003212.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Uprising Young cottonwood trees, bare during the winter season, against a backdrop of blue badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570974657-VUNB3VSVZ0T5O23KRRAX/g000003.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Sprite Image code: #g000003 Young cottonwood trees growing among willows, in winter colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676570975012-WLOQCYDJ962ZCJWXGXMI/g000001.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Cottonwood Cumulus Image code: #g000001 Large and prolifically branching cottonwood tree in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1716302208400-2UGR8LNUY6GQLB7V49CO/g000145.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Restfulness Image code: #g000145 Dormant cottonwood tree among willows illuminated by a momentary shaft of evening light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705096165407-HQNS6T31YXESDOZ6C91F/f001066.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Who Needs Green? Image code: #f001066 “You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.” —Wallace Stegner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705096164073-TAURR9ABDBH263I4XB2Y/f000728.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Perchance to Dream Image code: #f000728 “To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.” —William Shakespeare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1731616629154-JIDG2UCHZVZHVRJAWY87/g000198.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Trusted Aloneness Image code: #g000198 "Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust." —Rainer Maria Rilke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1731616631009-22RGU3G0A0GOT5W4IQAM/g000215.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - One Last Song Image code: #g000215 Cottonwood and tamarisk trees by a desert creek showing off the last of their autumn foliage before winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1731616589062-LZOYXRQGGWU0B3KYU0LE/f000684.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Youthful Enthusiasm Image code: #f000684 A dense thicket of young cottonwood trees growing among willows in the floodplain of a desert river. Having shed their leaves for winter, they await spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062452744-4P958AP7LJDQGXFQU1RK/f000984.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Hydra Image code: #f000984 Cottonwood tree still bare after the winter’s slumber, among desert shrubs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1738343701940-X0KHKRM8GADOTFRN7QE5/f001068.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Home in the Valley Image code: #f001068 Cottonwoods, birches, and ponderosa pines in autumn color, in a hidden canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1738343704902-HAQA2NR0QGG69JR3N5O8/g000242.jpg Arboreal Stories: Cottonwoods - Winter Repose Image code: #g000242 Dormant cottonwood trees in winter, still holding onto some of their autumn foliage. https://guytal.com/aspens daily 0.75 2022-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476841223-IUN43VAAJME1O0MUTWD8/c000112_4x5.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Aspen Fall Tapestry Image code: #c000112 One of the ways aspen trees propagate is by growing new trees out of the roots of older ones, resulting in groups of genetically identical specimens, referred to as clonal colonies. Different trees turn at different times and trees that are genetically similar turn together. This phenomenon creates patches of color where different groups of trees in the grove change at different times. Colors range from bright green through fiery yellow and all the way to deep orange and pink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476863897-0N73K3GZ5FJ48UKLYPC9/c000117.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Tracking the Lion Image code: #c000117 A mountain lion (cougar/puma) left these fresh tracks among fallen aspen leaves. For all the years I’ve been photographing in these places, this is the only time I saw a live mountain lion in the wild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476888698-K0O8PFDKGEUSJCSJCT65/c000402.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Understory Tapestry Image code: #c000402 A storm the previous day blew these colorful leaves to the ground. Many have not yet fully turned and those that have were in various stages of decay resulting in a dazzling array of colors, patterns, and textures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476917206-1U8FMV288VW5BWGMJERA/de001383.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Autumn Reflections Image code: #de001383 Aspen trees and dogwood bushes reflecting in a mountain lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476945549-1AKDNY7ZBFVVF7H0YLGV/dc000765.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - After the Big Show Image code: #dc000765 Aspen trees in late autumn, about to shed the last of their leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603476971751-N067ZNIP52OMMCKJYAJ3/dc001143.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Aspen Bolero Image code: #dc001143 Bracken ferns line the bottom of a grove of young aspen trees in the peak of autumn color. The curving trunks made me think of a slow sensuous dance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477001488-NMBRKC41B4L8Z6RNBES2/de001390.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - An Unlikely Convergence Image code: #de001390 Aspen trees growing against a red sandstone wall. The title refers to the fact that it’s very rare for aspen trees and sandstone to exist in the same place. Aspens generally grow at high elevation, while red sandstone generally is found in the lower, hotter, parts of the desert. This is the only place I know where red sandstone is found high enough so that aspen trees can grow in the same place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477026218-OX862BNH0XW32FLQRXPA/de001443.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Foam Patterns and Aspen Leaves Image code: #de001443 Aspen leaves floating among intricate foam patters at the outlet of an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477855371-OJJC89VFJDQ54GS66MF0/dn000902.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Life Recovers Image code: #dn000902 New foliage on aspen trees and snowberry bushes in dazzling autumn display among the skeletons of trees killed by wildfire years before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477077134-ZIT1V7CNULJTRE9T2DXZ/de001595.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Whiteout Image code: #de001595 Small grove of aspens looms out of thick fog in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477049842-JQOP7EDITTVBO62ZRBD6/de001592.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Wintry Pastels Image code: #de001592 Aspen trees, bare for the winter, atop a high desert plateau. The canyon country below, covered in thick fog, the peaks of desert mountains loom in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477206892-JLVMONNPP52BHFNQ2V1Q/de002953.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - The Arrival Image Code: #de002953 Aspen trees on the shore of a thawing lake. The spaceship-looking ovals are spots where the ice had melted faster thanks to underwater springs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477128459-OF5KE38ZFNKVE0PZIGD2/de002324.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Blue Grove Image code: #de002324 Aspen boles in winter. Recently-dead trees turn a bright orange before drying up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477152253-6PWQ7TSJSNHAAVYSDJBT/de002322.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Aspens, Filtered Light Image code: #de002322 Soft afternoon winter light filters through an old aspen grove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477882624-K8S0C4WI7ITPYRX2N7JL/di001952.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Cold Fusion Image code: #di001952 Bare aspen trees in winter, covered in hoar frost from a passing storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477231825-X9A4NZ7UX9CHF5GU9ZRR/di000603.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Misty Blues Image code: #di000603 Dormant aspen trees engulfed in wintry mist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477906557-MIIEWCXD9PH95WGUGYXQ/di001720.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Inner Peace Image code: #di001720 Aspen trees in deep winter slumber in a clearing in a thick grove. Soft mist filled the grove as a calm winter storm passed through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1679707636823-973W3BGHTD666H4OEFWQ/di001783.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Into the Mist Image code: #di001783 Aspen trees in winter fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477103014-5821Q7EBVH632ZDW48PN/de001995.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Last Light at Camp Image code: #de001995 Aspen trees in spring, glowing in the last of the warm sunlight, seen from my campsite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477450314-4JNYP38JFYLQYNP3R0AM/dh000156_c.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Autumn Kaleidoscope Image code: #dh000156 Aspen and dogwood grow among the Sierra Nevada granite boulders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477479507-X2P758DC4FIA0KU32YBI/di001086.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Shadowplay Image code: #di001086 Aspen grove against a backdrop of the slope of a desert mountain, green with new growth as spring arrives and the last of the snow had melted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477502854-9VCWDSCUX8Q8F7FZ4J6O/di001196.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Summer Eve Among the Aspens Image code: #di001196 Last light of the day, camping in a high-elevation aspen grove. In the summer months, these high groves provide shade and comfortable temperatures while the desert below bakes in the heat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477526694-JO5WV8IW3K2MUHDMVRM7/di001208.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Early Autumn Storm Image code: #di001208 In these high sagebrush-covered plains, thunderstorms can be violent, but usually for short periods as storm cells wander around the landscapes. The light during such storms, on the other hand, can be profoundly peaceful and revitalizing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477551500-60HSCPJ3N5SWCP82I404/di001259.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Meandering Headwaters Image code: #di001259 Gently making its way through a grassy alpine meadow, this creek will eventually become a desert river destined to travel some of the most scenic desert canyons on Earth before arriving at the Pacific Ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477584655-0GW94CCWLGO4NK8AL5K4/di001358.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Winter Tapestry Image code: #di001358 Bare aspen trees against a backdrop of crimson-colored willows during an early snow storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477608152-W5J3QXJ9MDN72CJBM697/di001273.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Winter Arrives Image code: #di001273 Last of the autumn foliage still clings to these young aspens as they prepare for the big sleep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477633127-XFVZTPKOOG8J44QP48Z8/di001619.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Misty Aspens Image code: #di001619 Aspen trees in fog during spring rainstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477657944-MFOU8OQIQIR04K8QOQM7/di001667_c.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - First Flurries Image code: #di001667 First snow falling over aspen grove in autumn color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477687478-1QU97NEENLSX78H8T9XW/dl000079.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Summer Ethereal Image code: #dl000079 Aspen grove in thick fog during a summer monsoon rainstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477710951-7GVPJQN1YI5XZ5MV2E2D/di001714.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - A Merging of Worlds Image code: #di001714 Aspen trees reflecting in alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477777048-JEPWNUMD7HPA1RRH4T37/dn000375.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Fallen Comrade Image code: #dn000375 Fallen aspen tree, likely felled by avalanche, supported by its brethren. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477747890-PHD308R0VFQKQW5UO879/dn000042.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Cold Embers Image code: #dn000042 Burned aspen snags lit by the low sun in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477801460-2O0TA2QK6NP39T64BSMF/dn000479.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Quiet, Frosty Morning Image code: #dn000479 A cold autumn morning by an alpine beaver pond surrounded by aspen trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603043761393-X23SHOMLJK347ZAT1IZ4/dq000030.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Verdant Awakening Image code: #dq000030 Vibrant new foliage on aspen trees growing in an alpine meadow. The last of winter’s snow still lines gullies in the steep slopes beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477828468-NJ5U5SYL7AG2T6VLTVZO/dn000410.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Darkness Falls Image code: #dn000410 Young aspen tree catching the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477315078-M7CRG4S46FLCSHCK846D/di000376.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Maplemorphosis Image code: #di000376 Yet-to-turn aspen trees mixed with maples in vibrant autumn display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477931409-H0L9H4P69PUVXXB7WZY8/di001888.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Bare Minimum Image code: #di001888 A thick aspen grove reduced to thin, faded lines in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477955531-SUWCTVTY8HURNGOQZZH3/dc000275.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Winter Haiku Image code: #dc000275 Red leaf on fresh snow Autumn is no longer here Sadness lies ahead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477287225-N1LGO7UEOF17ZTML97WM/de003193.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Windswept Image code: #de003193 Testament to their tenacity, these stunted and wind-beaten little aspens grow on a precarious exposed promontory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603478029721-RT4W93KFL2NROXJJQ6A4/f000204.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens Image code: #f000204 Last leaves adorn a lone aspen tree that has yet to shed its autumn coat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603478028933-DI3ECF36F0E4N4MEUWW8/f000192.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Farewell Song Image code: #f000192 Last of the autumn leaves in an aspen grove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603478030987-VWY2O106JKBMKC45UIFZ/e000041.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - The Candy Store Image code: #e000041 Multicolored aspens in autumn display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603477179042-KW9NZ55LGVJPAOFD92C0/de002024.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Sapling in the Clouds Image code: #de002024 After a good rainy season, this aspen sapling sprouted at the edge of an alpine lake. In time, the water will recede back to its normal levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603479234844-8JJDHVV26GH2HG5EOV2J/f000158.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Aspen Deconstructed Image code: #f000158 Bark and fallen aspen leaf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603479155075-MMUP7NT1NKFZIC8AMZFG/f000209.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Towering Image code: #f000209 Tall aspen trees glowing in the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1650922737145-4FXNYL23C0XFCF7DK77H/f000577.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Autumnal Awe Image code: #f000720 Aspen groves in vibrant autumn colors catching a last rays of sun before an evening storm moves in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1635269893843-57F58QSFV68X6RTW3FLO/f000452.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Arboreal Embrace Image code: #f000452 Aspen tree trunks embracing each other against a lichen covered rock wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1640110886367-TXNPJ0VD1MWDB8BXAUJQ/f000588.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Pointillist Autumn Image code: #f000588 Varied autumn colors in aspen trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970428569-YYQA43L1ISUFSPCUOK3S/f000204.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Flickering Away Image code: #f000204 A small aspen tree growing among a thick forest of its brethren, holds on to its leaves for just a few more days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970428555-4RXYJ0BL138EWS4QDNRO/f000192.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Farewell Song Image code: #f000192 Last of the golden foliage on mountain aspen. These leaves were mostly blown away by a passing storm the following evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970431739-LMFCSPALA37EAUL1PO4V/f000209.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Tall Tales Image code: #f000209 These unusually tall aspen trees receive the last of the sunlight on a late autumn evening after a difficult season of drought. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603046225563-SL1Q4PNSHVFET9U2A960/dn000910.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Courtship Image code: #dn000910 Aspen trees in a high mountain meadow, set against a backdrop of cloud shadows on a mountain slope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553763512-J368X6M7DPYAX9RHPDLH/f000968.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Floor of the Sky Image code: #f000968 Low clouds fill a valley between an aspen grove and distant mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603043761393-X23SHOMLJK347ZAT1IZ4/dq000030.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Verdant Awakening Image code: #dq000030 Vibrant new foliage on aspen trees growing in an alpine meadow. The last of winter’s snow still lines gullies in the steep slopes beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018805785-VVUI0LUWIQ4BC2B2L1K4/f000823.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - Only for a Moment Image code: #f000823 A momentary break in a large storm. Seconds after, this area was hit with a hailstorm that left a layer of hailstones on the ground 3-4” thick. Much of the colorful foliage was gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018806663-CJ6F6A3AVC04F1R11N09/f000824.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - So Long for Now Image code: #f000824 A final touch of sunlight on a small aspen grove before it was ravaged by a major hailstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1666018806778-UQOWAGL1OH9C7P3F8COD/f000825.jpg Arboreal Stories: Aspens - A Grace Before the Storm Image code: #f000825 Last rays of sunlight caress a desert mountain slope as a heavy storm moves in. https://guytal.com/the-good-badlands daily 0.75 2022-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069327846-4VAA4TI3P76VQ0GYLNDD/de000970.jpg The Good Badlands - Streaming Colors Image code: #de000970 Colorful blooms bring to life a desert alluvial fan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069251880-WIQEE9NEU9Y6YUHSE0YQ/dn000968.jpg The Good Badlands - Alien Tree Image code: #dn000968 Solitary cottonwood tree in autumn coat in an other-worldly landscape of desert badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069297445-11EDLOL1LCIJMY0CGHLW/dc001087.jpg The Good Badlands - Aglow Image code: #dc001087 Sliver of morning sunlight paints a desert butte in golden hues before storm clouds close in again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069148871-91JMNXNQIV7JX0YCMWMM/dc000694.jpg The Good Badlands - Survivor Image code: #dc000694 Shadscale plant reaching through the cracks for what little moisture and nutrients it can find in the dry desert floor, defying the odds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069351375-I8QCXP6KPG02SQZKWYEI/de000226.jpg The Good Badlands - Radiant Pastels Image code: #de000226 The faint glow of pre-dawn light brings to life the delicate pastels in a slope of clay desert badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069378176-XO84P6EQHN4R20HWAUFN/de000253.jpg The Good Badlands - Future Fossil Image code: #de000253 A skull half-sunk in solid clay. With each rare rainfall, it will sink a little deeper and after that may never reach the surface again. Or, it may become fossilized and some day, perhaps millions of years from now, be revealed to other eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069405111-KE9TZVE8MJ7I59UD3ZJP/de000916.jpg The Good Badlands - First Blooms Image code: #de000916 Purple scorpionweed flowers, and a single yellow bee plant, emerge from cracked desert ground after years of waiting for rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069432856-LCGMH58KZ2I8RIYMKWET/de000996.jpg The Good Badlands - Badlands in Bloom Image code: #de000996 Purple scorpionweed flowers in a desert wash. This phenomenon occurs only once every few years. At the time of writing, it has been nearly a full decade since the last bloom of this magnitude. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069472996-NQFZO22H5VJ4O20FKWVL/de001035.jpg The Good Badlands - Rare Beauty Image code: #de001035 Most other times, this area is an arid plain of cracked earth where few hardy shrubs barely survive. On rare occasions, perhaps once in a decade if not longer, when conditions are right, dormant seeds burst out in a stunning display of flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069498327-GEI35UEP5QKDTJZU9U09/de002594.jpg The Good Badlands - Desolate Perch Image code: #de002594 Lonesome raven surveys a surreal landscape of painted hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069524235-CCQSUA1MBG1IVO55MS9Y/de002647.jpg The Good Badlands - Verdant Defiance Image code: #de002647 Hardy shadscale plants manage to survive in an area once known by its early Mormon settlers as, The Baddest of the Badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069550545-GYRNHSNNETJCXUKRJ6YK/de002644.jpg The Good Badlands - Earthly Delights Image code: #de002644 Swaths of colorful clay, sandstone, and shale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069574734-HGI0SSFPYKBBTSV2V9XY/dg000065.jpg The Good Badlands - Desert Jigsaw Puzzle Image code: #dg000065 Cracked drying mud on desert floor. The gradation in color indicate level of moisture still remaining in each piece (they dry from the outside in). Recent raindrops dotted the clay with small impact-craters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069599995-QL124XCVZU2EW9YV1A02/de003169.jpg The Good Badlands - Blue Grit Image code: #de003169 Mineral-rich hill of textured bentonite clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069684506-6IBGM7HUQ0UBIILAPD88/dg000062.jpg The Good Badlands - Clay Calligraphy Image code: #dg000062 Deep cracks in desert floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069716594-Y80OE9OMLONSCQV414IE/de002739.jpg The Good Badlands - Fluted Flanks Image code: #de002739 Layers of ancient clay revealed in eroded cliff face. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069829437-FEIP1TCWOTN7O37V3MB7/dh000490.jpg The Good Badlands - Illuminated Ridges Image code: #dh000490 Ridges of the blue hills, dusted in snow, glow in the cold light of winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069851880-A17W5VSU5UB0G6FNLP57/di000872.jpg The Good Badlands - Ancient Flow Image code: #di000872 Eroded ancient sea bed, now arid desert badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069922686-GZHRQ4VXR6LE46F5RGKO/di000968.jpg The Good Badlands - Into the Blue Image code: #di000968 Eroded slopes of blue bentonite clay, large enough to dwarf large sandstone boulders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069949477-NNZUTTVIDT6L2FPEQJSU/di001117.jpg The Good Badlands - Do Not Disturb Image code: #di001117 Clay badlands are fairly soft. Being dry almost year-round, footprints and tire tracks may leave lasting marks. The proper way to wander in these places is in the narrow washes among the hills, which are first to get smoothed out with any precipitation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069974316-57WMIBYEZO920XCZMZZ2/di001578.jpg The Good Badlands - Timelines Image code: #di001578 Alluvial drainage patterns in clay badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070001401-AOPYPNMI3NE4RZNU8R2G/di001572.jpg The Good Badlands - Evening Falls Image code: #di001572 This is the view from what used to be one of my favorite campsites, where I have never seen another person for a period of about fifteen years. Today, it is a popular spot among photographers and the solitude is gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070029001-WKMBI44PPG5DROYHOF3Y/di001577.jpg The Good Badlands - Convolutions Image code: #di001577 Convoluted alluvial patterns and buttes in clay badlands. Once a remote and unknown place where one could spend days in solitude, now becoming rapidly popular in the age of online sharing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070051093-MPMKYMB9HEFN52SUYZG8/di000958.jpg The Good Badlands - Undulations Image code: #di000958 Sedimented clay, once the bottom of an ancient sea, now desert badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070075676-39T61WN2ZJINPVQDVCAT/di001582.jpg The Good Badlands - Launch Pad Image code: #di001582 The view from the edge of a sandstone shelf above a vast area of badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070098525-LYBD0ZI3EI3KUVK06LTB/di001614.jpg The Good Badlands - As the Crow Flies Image code: #di001614 Soft light meandering among eroded desert hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070122123-3FCCCY0YYD42JKZLZRZG/di001606.jpg The Good Badlands - Dignity of Light Image code: #di001606 Gentle light in the blue desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070142712-96DBRS9R1IQ9PJFXUJNX/di001832.jpg The Good Badlands - Life, Just Barely Image code: #di001832 An unusually cold winter day in the badlands. Very rarely visited, even in other times, it is unlikely that many people ever witnessed the cold desolation of winter in these places. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070172381-9OB70E6W4683AD40Z1W2/di001591.jpg The Good Badlands - Rolling Stones Image code: #di001591 Broken sandstone boulders strewn along an eroded clay slope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070197666-46XJ0KTGSATSQK94RH9I/di001838.jpg The Good Badlands - Desolate Peace Image code: #di001838 An unusually cold and foggy winter day in the badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070222873-B32XNC1G4Y6OJNHYYOUD/dn000126.jpg The Good Badlands - A Day of Rest Image code: #dn000126 Desert butte glows in early morning light after an overnight snow storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070251750-IQPWQKLCRRZOR6EKCOVP/di001917.jpg The Good Badlands - Tumblers Image code: #di001917 Large caprock boulders making their way down an eroding slope of bentonite clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070277396-NH8BRVFVXSHHCUT3HOYE/dn000123.jpg The Good Badlands - Resting Place Image code: #dn000123 Desert badlands under a blanket of fresh snow, viewed from a lofty sandstone ledge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070304031-QGMHEA6WHGI335904CMW/dn000146.jpg The Good Badlands - Winter Minuet Image code: #dn000146 Dormant cottonwood trees engulfed in wintry fog, looking like they are swaying to music only they can hear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070328873-RPQY8XSYJ1T5YO2R895U/dn000277.jpg The Good Badlands - Timelessness Image code: #dn000277 Eroded badlands, formerly deposits from the bottom of an ancient shalow sea. I remember fondly the days before this place was “discovered” in recent years. At the time, you could camp on this ledge for days, and it was nearly inconceivable that another person would show up—a place of peace and a perfect setting for contemplation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070351576-P38W5CG5QID0R9EXU2XX/dn000167.jpg The Good Badlands - Winter Cascade Image code: #dn000167 Fresh snow fills the grooves of an eroded desert slope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070384024-7TYCAHMK59XDZCIYVKP0/dn000512.jpg The Good Badlands - Purple Pathway Image code: #dn000512 Small shadscale shrubs persist in a small wash in mineral-rich clay hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070409276-6UZGFJ64CK6WN6H9V94E/dn000520.jpg The Good Badlands - Pillowy Pathways Image code: #dn000520 Desert mountains covered in snow loom above a landscape of pink desert clay hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070440654-2Y46V8UXDZDPMQK0BLXY/dn000712.jpg The Good Badlands - Gentle Erosion Image code: #dn000712 Sandstone boulders making their way down an eroded clay hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070466377-30MON2G9RGXB8XTPSYLH/dn000713.jpg The Good Badlands - Skeletal Remains Image code: #dn000713 The skeletons of juniper trees remain standing, sometimes for decades after their death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070490304-9BIXZLMA9ARK5JPSK452/dq000043.jpg The Good Badlands - Life on Mars Image code: #dq000043 Shadscale plants emerge in an alluvial wash carved in red clay, after recent rains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070746740-WD47S9QIMTXDFXYU426W/e000013.jpg The Good Badlands - Path of Water and Light Image code: #e000013 First light illuminating an alluvial wash in clay badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070802749-RTUXGY24Q4FT00MLS7SG/e000066.jpg The Good Badlands - Early Glow Image ID: #e000066 Early sunlight ignites colorful desert plants among clay hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070826038-KLIUUB85RF96ITMW2RMK/e000062.jpg The Good Badlands - Getting Late Image ID: #e000062 Late afternoon light casts shadows on desert plants growing among clay hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070863362-S75BJLOFRUAQ722UO24W/e000063.jpg The Good Badlands - Home Colors Image ID: #e000063 "I am not that presumptuous to think I could speak or paint or write the natural history of my home colors. I know only that they are to blame for intent and motion, for an asymmetrical journey of wonder and of trouble. Light can run a person’s time and moods; it can explain everything." ~Ellen Meloy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070893402-CZEX4FYHMN7V638WBTJN/e000090.jpg The Good Badlands - Herringbone Hills Image ID: #e000090 Clay hills tinted with colorful minerals, form a herringbone pattern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070922419-B0QB36UYJTYZPG4I9B3G/e000108.jpg The Good Badlands - Resting Sea Image ID: #e000108 Once a seabed, now colorful undulating hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070951917-RDG6JK1YF6H8ZKMUSGV3/e000064.jpg The Good Badlands - Kind of Blue Image ID: #e000064 Clay slopes tinted in blue and purple minerals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594070991532-TJ19HSEHBGUBIUBCJFXR/dn001156.jpg The Good Badlands - Just Add Water Image ID: #dn001156 A rare bloom of yellow beeplant among the badlands, after some well-timed rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594071017890-B1FHXCNAAWNLSZ2F2XDW/e000065.jpg The Good Badlands - Still Mighty Image ID: #e000065 A larghe section of an ancient fossilized tree rests over mineral-rich clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1599505571214-XKNEVFH17430M1TCUPMY/dn001149.jpg The Good Badlands - Gilded Path Image ID: #dn001149 Beeplant flowers along an alluvial channel in the badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592162145884-PB75PXC8YN3I68FFP2SS/f000002.jpg The Good Badlands - Unpatriotic Image code: #f000002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592162145886-26R8J25SH6IRKFY4FU09/f000014.jpg The Good Badlands - Velvestial Image code: #f000014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161628891-2I0U5XKUJAPRCEYT8F2L/f000001.jpg The Good Badlands - Scalloped Edges Image code: #f000001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1599507235638-AB1XHDK8PDESRCFX69LT/dh000653.jpg The Good Badlands - The Profound Silence Image ID: #dh000653 “All profound things and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.” ~Herman Melville https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616260430205-MII3ZOF9WF2MOVQAXD07/dl000189.jpg The Good Badlands - The Divine Soil Image code: #dl000189 This then is life, Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions. How curious! how real! Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun. ~Walt Whitman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616260430650-ZCH6862BCH97LSKBP716/e000171.jpg The Good Badlands - Despite It All Image code: #e000171 That some, trees or humans, thrive where others see only “bad” lands, “bad” situations, “bad” light, is testament for both the tenacity of those who thrive and for the lack of imagination of those who don’t. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970415313-O575ZT67Z8G24IQ0WB03/f000108.jpg The Good Badlands - Out of Space, Out of Time Image code: #f000108 “By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule — From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE — out of TIME.” ~Edgar Allan Poe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970417225-YZNGPY76YHTHI8FX26P9/f000131.jpg The Good Badlands - Lamentation Image code: #f000131 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970416837-D6PRP1CE34YQ1LKO4GO8/f000109.jpg The Good Badlands - A Seeker's Dream Image code: #f000109 Distant desert places touched by storm light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603043609271-031QCNMT6EEJ3JKGUFH1/dn001178.jpg The Good Badlands - Heart of the Desert Image code: #dn001178 Fracture patterns in frozen and cracked mud, in a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639780186093-MCRR59ENHHEUO4XLNZ1N/dl000407.jpg The Good Badlands - Petrified Flame Image code: #dl000407 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1679851530226-FSWOPLE5BKEZWHGDSKB5/f001030.jpg The Good Badlands - Funneled Image code: #f001030 Blocks of sandstone caprock making their way down a wash among clay hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1693661597340-4H4Q8WPKK6B2OVK0WXH3/dn000447.jpg The Good Badlands - Recorded History Image ID: #dn000477 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1692714873020-52TSYLVN8DQXOMPKTLFP/dn000445.jpg The Good Badlands - Maybe Tomorrow Image ID: #dn000445 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1692714874733-UPHPXO3BZFV1YO57IHYL/dn000448.jpg The Good Badlands - Empty Stage Image ID: #dn000448 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1738343702398-L7RYH2IG5UDH11D229F4/g000228.jpg The Good Badlands - Fluid Dynamics Image code: #g000228 The sandy footprints of a wild bobcat on a frozen, icy winter pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1738343698180-95VXD66R1KGVTIHP6VGI/dn000172.jpg The Good Badlands - Frozen Geometry Image code: #dn000172 Ice patterns reflecting red lights in a desert canyon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1738343700396-O7X2STT8QWNTA6BAM3LO/dn001237.jpg The Good Badlands - Event Horizon Image code: #dn001237 The shape of these ice patterns made me think of the edge of a black hole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1716302206489-NJK8ET9JSFZCZ0XTUOIV/di002056.jpg The Good Badlands - Yes, For Now Image code: #di002056 Errant shaft of light illuminating a surreal landscape of desert hills. This was once a place where one could spend days in quiet solitude, watching the light. Now it has become a busy photo checklist destination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705096163427-FCOH3HH9WSLYRBFBPQ8N/di001841.jpg The Good Badlands - Winter Dream Image code: #di001841 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705096167095-J431MO0YUFEYUB5UZVCD/g000152.jpg The Good Badlands - Alien Forest Image code: #g000152 https://guytal.com/mystery-people daily 0.75 2022-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437172114-24KLFDI6CMO2WIIA6ANJ/dc000725_b.jpg Mystery People - Adobe Granary Image code: #dc000725 A granary tucked in a narrow alcove high above a deep canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437194084-WDCQ3BLVFEQQ2A2QJ28L/de000955.jpg Mystery People - I Was Here Image code: #de000955 The imprint of a small hand, perhaps a child's, above an ancient dwelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437216467-BKTR90SNZ0BLF4X7BQ03/de001665_b.jpg Mystery People - Inner Passage Image code: #de001665 An outer wall shields these dwelling, accessible only through a narrow opening (seen at the bottom of the wall on the lower right). This is believed to be the home of religious priests, and was built up in a variety of styles in the course of centuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437237957-11IBMG83ROED71S9K5FT/dl000020.jpg Mystery People - Against the Grain Image code: #dl000020 Sharpening marks on sandstone, found near an archaic ceremonial site, suggesting they may be thousands of years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437256257-3KZ02TLHJ75GVTBDF7VT/de000084_b.jpg Mystery People - Ceiling Above Ceiling Image code: #de000084 Alcove patterns above an old puebloan ruin's thatched roof. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437279626-5XUN4ZFS0PP39QNZH9XD/de001672_b.jpg Mystery People - Food Supply Image code: #de001672 Large granaries used by Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) to store maize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437302592-F2R2J5Q24ALMIP6N9GN5/de000086.jpg Mystery People - Grinding Stone Image code: #de000086 Metates and manos in ancient alcove dwelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437324929-SGH4EYX28BWLEIGN6Z2H/de002870_b.jpg Mystery People - Metate and Mano Image code: #de002870 Metate (mortar) and mano (grinding stone) in an ancient puebloan dwelling, used to make maize (corn) flour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437344480-IL2AJ09XA8ND7XNO6WKB/de001969.jpg Mystery People - Fremont Cyclops Image code: #de001969 Anthropomorphic pictograph in the Fremont culture style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437368527-VKACD144ALLXF8KGEQ4S/de003086_b.jpg Mystery People - Hunting Lodge Image code: #de003086 A shallow alcove under a giant boulder, decorated with hunting-related pictographs dating back to archaic times (thousands of years old). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437388200-J1R7F4GTT3XW097OGMHK/de001676_b.jpg Mystery People - Decorated Dwelling Image code: #de001676 The painted wall of a dwelling believed to have been used by priests conducting ceremonies in a nearby kiva. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437411649-SBJXWZ3WWMM1MOVIJIFM/de000951_b.jpg Mystery People - Kitchen Counter Image code: #de000951 A shallow alcove under a giant boulder, decorated with hunting-related pictographs dating back to archaic times (thousands of years old). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437433421-P4ZW1PZ0TCEQVYPK8CCL/de002215_b.jpg Mystery People - Tightrope Walker Image code: #de002215 Anthropomorphic petroglyph at an ancient ceremonial site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437451564-SMW7EDBN9P8IN9A8STNL/di000468.jpg Mystery People - Kiva Ghosts Image code: #di000468 A kiva is an underground ceremonial chamber used by puebloan cultures (what some refer to as Anasazi, although the term—meaning, “Enemy People” in the Navajo language—is inaccurate). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437474323-XWANQ7EE6C7D36LCCHVV/dg000325_b.jpg Mystery People - Curiosity Image code: #dg000325 Leopard lizard watching me cautiously as I photograph a bighorn sheep petroglyph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437491743-UE4HF51MD4LVL7J8MZYL/di000472.jpg Mystery People - Mementos Image code: #di000472 Bits and pieces of an ancient household. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437511836-RAIYYTUS5PCDPPLNZL2T/di000480.jpg Mystery People - Medicine Bowl Image code: #di000480 Pestle and mortar in an ancient puebloan dwelling. The small size indicates it was used to grind something in small portions, rather than major food ingredients. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437546979-0E0BUZ2KU9I4OOVAXQRT/dl000051.jpg Mystery People - Lost Point Image code: #dl000051 A small arrow point exposed by wind after having been lost in the sand for hundreds of years. The point likely is already covered in new sand, and may never be found again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437565314-1KGVOQX35I0AG9FR7XC8/dk000041.jpg Mystery People - The Ties that Bind Image code: #dk000041 Knots holding together the frame of an ancient dwelling’s window. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437788155-ORPL70EUCHW879PK2QWG/f000163.jpg Mystery People - Keepers of the Altar Image code: #f000163 Fremont culture anthropomorphous adorn the wall of a shamanic ceremonial site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437606734-U09I3T0KHBDZ8UN8QN1Y/di001425.jpg Mystery People - Winged Watchers Image code: #di001425 The remains of an ancient desert dwelling. Among the rock art are depictions of large winged creatures believed to be mythical thunderbirds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437636704-LA4K8VDTLSALQF8YRHOZ/di000820.jpg Mystery People - Some Things Never Change Image code: #di000820 It's easy to romanticize ancient cultures as being more peaceful and in tune with the natural world. But, they were as human as any of us, and as prone to tribalism and violence as we are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437657451-FJBG67D1HMS1PYWIDFCS/de003172.jpg Mystery People - Walls within Walls Image code: #de003172 A low wall marks a private living space in an enormous alcove where several such places line the walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614437590474-CGIMMZJG8B9TT3WDH733/di000784.jpg Mystery People - Ancient Fingerprints Image code: #di000784 The fingerprints of ancient people preserved in mortar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616354711641-6468I5U1CITXAF1QRZY5/dl000353.jpg Mystery People - Bighorn Sheep Tracks Image code: #dl000353 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614438454167-GKGFJE9Q6M3GB6HUY6FY/b001003.jpg Mystery People - The Rainbow Saga Image code: #b001003 A large and dense panel of petroglyphs, likely carved in the course of many centuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614439759651-ERIX24Y17VA62DY2OD2O/f000340.jpg Mystery People - Cross Sections Image code: #f000340 Intersections of human and geologic times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553763513-H0OB16Y5H2W3FEIDK9AM/f000966.jpg Mystery People - Hidden Meaning Image code: #f000966 A petroglyph, likely of a dragonfly, pecked into sandstone by a member of an ancient native culture, likely around 1500-2000 years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553759108-3TKEWM47ZYN2YNWJNXEB/f000949.jpg Mystery People - Signifier Image code: #f000949 In semiotics (the study of symbols), we distinguish signifier (the symbol) from signified (the meaning). To any given person, the meanings of many symbols are obvious, but in time these meaning may be forgotten, leaving cryptic symbols for those who may encounter them in some faraway future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553760930-XTX3JON4DRYSXU8GUBGL/f000956.jpg Mystery People - Ancient Ornithology Image code: #956 Petroglyphs that look to me like the shapes of the feet of different bird species. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744127997-11F9KOLS9HEL8WGG9ADR/g000263.jpg Mystery People - Over the Rainbow Image code: #g000263 Mysterious petroglyphs on a steep canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744118880-KZB23559Z5LSHIR2J77E/dp000115.jpg Mystery People - Sex Ed Image code: #dp000115 Petroglyphs of birds (perhaps cranes or ibises), seemingly depicting parts of their reproductive cycle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744127239-PYT2ML040RC7CSH53ZMZ/g000246.jpg Mystery People - Lightning Fighter Image code: #g000246 Petroglyph depicting a person, perhaps a holy figure, seemingly surrounded by arrows and lightning bolts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744124963-CKXVH9I6PLMY4MA43KKR/f001094.jpg Mystery People - Abode Image code: #f001094 Ancient Native American dwelling in a deep alcove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744121986-7KJ5SO4NZQGI02T5S8LD/f000985.jpg Mystery People - Dine' Dream Image code: #f000985 The interior of an ancient Navajo (aka Dine’) log shelter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744113653-MNK90QE4ZCFCDBHRTIVA/di000470.jpg Mystery People - The Way Out Image code: #di000470 A beam of light shines into an ancient Kiva (underground ceremonial chamber). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744115713-BDVWSUAYG6FOGY1SFFPS/dn000423.jpg Mystery People - A Storyteller's Dream Image code: #dn000423 Ancient glyphs on a remote canyon’s wall, telling stories whose purpose and meaning are long lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744120362-Y0MG5UYRI9ZXS8VEFG9K/f000647.jpg Mystery People - Corvid Stamp Image code: #f000647 A petroglyph depicting a raven’s track. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744121195-B2B4PP5M5ZPT3FL0QF3H/f000961.jpg Mystery People - Anisopter Image code: #f000961 A petroglyph depicting (what I believe is) a dragonfly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062448773-SJ809UF0YB10ZGTQHBGF/f001092.jpg Mystery People - Keep Guessing Image code: #f001092 Native American rock art is often cryptic, open to interpretation, its meaning long lost and perhaps not even comprehensible to modern humans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062444999-5GTT0YQ0C04RC0OBCWJD/g000253.jpg Mystery People - Altar Users Guide Image code: #g000253 Petroglyph, likely depicting a bear or mountain lion, on a flat, level slab of rock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062448171-CZRA9P9A5I5DF7W17EVC/g000009.jpg Mystery People - Too Many Movies Image code: #g000009 Petroglyph depicting (perhaps) a person holding (perhaps) a spear. https://guytal.com/vegetative-states daily 0.75 2022-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366024642-GY25OBHBS579MJQQG7GR/c000437.jpg Vegetative States - Summer is Over Image code: #c000437 These maple trees grow in a beautiful canyon. I spent hours walking among them looking for a composition that would express the feeling of yellow leaves hanging in the air like fireflies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366047157-V3WQ6JDLMP0FOTAWCOF2/dc000173.jpg Vegetative States - Time to Rest Image code: #dc000173 A colorful mat of fallen leaves covers the ground below a maple tree at the end of autumn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366068181-X08KF2K40CUPBZ9IU6RA/c000693.jpg Vegetative States - Frosted Corn Lilies Image code: #c000693 I first found frost-covered lilies a couple of years before making this image, and loved the way the ice accentuated their graceful lines, but could not find a good composition. I return to the same patch a few more times until about two years later, I found what I was looking for. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366089371-EL0UWCGRIHGX0AOBLP7N/dc000177.jpg Vegetative States - Colorful Recovery Image code: #dc000177 This area was burned in a wildfire a few years prior to making this photograph. Charred remains of scrub oaks still remain as new foliage sprouts at their bases. Life recovers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366108903-SN2A7IJ9P6AA4MNEGAF8/dc000500.jpg Vegetative States - Colors of Winter Image code: #dc000500 Willow and rabbitbrush add a splash of color to dormant cottonwoods trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366173891-MYFUUF8AXTJG4BS0XUWC/dc000178.jpg Vegetative States - Autumn Coat Image code: #dc000178 Maple trees begin to turn as autumn arrives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366282999-ER13U4D3Z2IIGQWRBT8O/de001352.jpg Vegetative States - Leaves and Grass Image code: #de001352 Fallen aspen leaves among wind-sculpted grasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367100173-BEO4041PF9QX672VY9OF/dc000712.jpg Vegetative States - Rooster Tails Image code: #dc000712 Colorful grasses in an alpine meadow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366220854-4XQPHEN17VD7JP992YJE/de000446.jpg Vegetative States - Glimmer Image code: #de000446 Last rays of light filtering through desert brush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366334094-UK6AULGFYTCN1EA58MCM/de001766.jpg Vegetative States - Emergence Image code: #de001766 Young cottonwoods grow among a willow thicket along a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366451571-Q2IWABVFUPNYD0QBT4RC/de001982.jpg Vegetative States - Forest Camo Image code: #de001982 Thick grove of alder trees covered in moss and lichen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366481950-07FG3ND7AN4TIJ3NFTSI/de002456.jpg Vegetative States - Silent Flames Image code: #de002456 A quiet winter moment with dormant cottonwood, willow, and tamarisk trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366503876-X1OYBF322UHLSEOOTQ38/di000307.jpg Vegetative States - The Little Things Image code: #di000307 Sunlight filtering through a patch of grama grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366525792-FDM2VCEH4VOUF26IXFJ3/di000309.jpg Vegetative States - Silent Fireworks Image code: #di000309 Early morning light filters through rice grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366553757-4Q0WUZLU5ZFGXANA29JX/di000311.jpg Vegetative States - Morning Bliss Image code: #di000311 Early morning light filters through dew-covered grama grasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366580122-S2NA0KSCY8UMDYCIDQA0/di000322.jpg Vegetative States - In Memoriam Image code: #di000322 The skeleton of an old cedar that died in a wildfire, against a backdrop of young maples and oaks starting to fill the scorched earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366660645-XXOCN72P13TU2WFNYC4E/di001127.jpg Vegetative States - Autumn Shroud Image code: #di001127 Oaks reclaiming their former glory several years after a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366610780-JR8UXA3BOUT65WPXGLTA/di000376.jpg Vegetative States - Maplemorphosis Image code: #di000376 Yet-to-turn aspen trees mixed with maples in vibrant autumn display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366691314-FE3Z5DFTL3I47DQB77NZ/di001293.jpg Vegetative States - Autumn Aura Image code: #di001293 Late fall among the willows and aspens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366823618-DC3NJ89AATCQ8LLLEIJO/di001522.jpg Vegetative States - Early Signs Image code: #di001522 Small buds on cottonwood trees signal the arrival of spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366749685-G8T7B4KSKWBDWR1XK4TH/di001359.jpg Vegetative States - Let It Storm Image code: #di001359 Aspens and willows welcome an early snow shower. Soon, a thick white blanket will erase most color until the following spring. Caption inspired by this passage by Hermann Hesse: "Say yes to everything, shirk nothing, don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen, you are not a Greek, you are not harmonious, or the master of yourself, you are a bird in the storm. Let it storm!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366798314-PPTQU18X1R65DAQISRUQ/di001601.jpg Vegetative States - Lost Souls Image code: #di001601 Scrub oaks dusted with early spring snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366942118-2Z6716T58VNM0SCOK4AZ/dn000936.jpg Vegetative States - Remembrance Image code: #dn000936 A snowberry bush in bright autumn color at the feet of the fallen remains of an old pinyon pine that died in a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366853074-J5JBJ2XOS40D7KOPLU05/di001866.jpg Vegetative States - Untangled Bloom Image code: #di001866 Sand Verbena in bloom, growing around the remnants of a dead creosote bush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366877080-HOVXLYEVQUSXHSLXARZ8/dn000193.jpg Vegetative States - Creekside Tapestry Image code: #dn000193 Desert plants in a flood basin along a small creek, in winter colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366906448-YOXPZXI0QWFV4N48NE72/dn000195.jpg Vegetative States - Intricacy Image code: #dn000195 Desert brush showing its true colors in winter time when plants are dormant and not producing chlorophyll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367181292-5NTCZ43T5298K152BVW3/di001630.jpg Vegetative States - Winter is Over Image code: #di001630 Cottonwoods and willows reawakening in early spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367028451-3SQ205TQLRXC99QA7MW6/do000048.jpg Vegetative States - Ash and Lichen Tapestry Image code: #do000048 Ash tree in autumn color against a sandstone wall textured with various lichens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367082972-6BYETDF0WCLUIA4U1DFB/dc000611.jpg Vegetative States - Oaks Rejuvenated Image code: #dc000611 The charred remains of oaks burned in a wildfire, remain standing as new growth sprouts at their bases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367126468-VBGLR3U943PMEG3DT6NB/di001128.jpg Vegetative States - Colorful Rest Image code: #di001128 The skeleton of a ponderosa pine, surrounded by new growth of scrub oak several years after a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366976693-1XKYERT7KLY50ZVNNGYW/dp000028.jpg Vegetative States - Piliferous Poppy Image code: #dp000028 Close look at a rare bear poppy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614368924279-62GHRXGC9F3RJOA3YMXN/dn001092.jpg Vegetative States - Poppy Dream Image code: #dn001092 Bear poppy abstract. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603044721398-2OG341PTD4WL8BCLYIS6/dp000089.jpg Vegetative States - Unfurling Image code: #dp000089 A close look at a rare Bear Poppy plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614369375376-CRK58UTO6K4GIP8YG3ET/f000023.jpg Vegetative States - Shadow Dancer Image code: #f00023 The skeleton of a small juniper tree catching the last sunray’s of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366248038-GKQ46TLDBA1MFTRXZ2WV/de000513.jpg Vegetative States - Ghost Image code: #de000513 An old spruce tree that fell victim to bark beetle infestation, caused by climate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614369376001-8CJJ0575EXX7AYEFU6NG/f000262.jpg Vegetative States - Winter Candle Image code: #f000262 Small dormant cottonwood still bearing some dry remnants of last year's leaves, catching the last of the sunlight against a dark canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366198796-2JEH8XCYS0U3RTOGX28F/de000635.jpg Vegetative States - Stained Glass Image code: #de000635 Fallen autumn leaves trapped under a layer of ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367147845-YSZG4R3WQTNTM4Q5DECJ/c001038.jpg Vegetative States - Rare Gift Image code: #c001038 This was a large shallow pool the day before. Overnight, temperatures hovered around freezing, and in the morning I found these beautiful fallen maple and oak leaves captured in a layer of paper-thin ice. The ice melted within a couple of hours as the sun lit the canyon bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614367055998-0334K21CIF7QGF0X9NIX/di001273.jpg Vegetative States - Winter Arrives Image code: #di001273 Last of the autumn foliage still clings to young aspens as they prepare for the big sleep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614369649338-2BK9UBEA0MB6B5C4PUCA/dn001204.jpg Vegetative States - Reclamation Image code: #dn001204 Buckwheat plants repopulating an area after a fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366724863-J2CZ6SQZVHIYOESMGQDV/di001435.jpg Vegetative States - Inner Space Image code: #di001435 Winter sun illuminates a patch of desert trumpet plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614369767604-G9E5XVFIDT0MVMHI3A7A/f000292.jpg Vegetative States - Christmas Creosote Image code: #f000292 Small creosote bush covered in seed pods, looks festive right around the Christmas holiday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366636178-27BR0HS3S6XFSIQ0TMJC/di001223.jpg Vegetative States - Illuminated Tips Image code: #di001223 Sagebrush catching the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614366310028-PV6NXMDLHBGPXEM08CKC/de000547.jpg Vegetative States - The Graceful Dead Image code: #de000547 Last of the maple foliage clinging on before the next big storm strips the tree bare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614369871550-JV4L05YCNUHNZIGVFJMR/f000315.jpg Vegetative States - Winter Breath Image code: #f000315 Cholla growing among creosote bushes glows in the light of a late winter afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614370024394-D3RO3RLUPFPN88O7JYKB/f000153.jpg Vegetative States - Farewell to a Season Image code: #f000153 Scrub oak leaves in autumn colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614370021917-ZRE3C0PBHT20PMDO4E9B/f000140.jpg Vegetative States - Any Moment Now Image code: #f000140 Last of the autumn leaves clings to scrub oaks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614370023147-KKAYVL31H5QX4CUPDDKU/f000141.jpg Vegetative States - Scrub Oak Diorama Image code: #f000141 A rainbow of autumn colors rendered in pastels in a small grove of scrub oaks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614370311540-W2JLGS6S81LMJK6XCPN8/f000288.jpg Vegetative States - Winter Calm Image code: #f000288 A cholla cactus glowing in the afternoon light of a quiet winter day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614370427636-SFX07K0BLDURHD7176RW/f000275.jpg Vegetative States - Goodnight Stretch Image code: #f000275 Cholla cactus glowing in early evening light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614370311776-G36ZCV1051L6K357CNWM/e000164.jpg Vegetative States - Almost Bedtime Image code: #e000164 Cholla and rabbitbrush glowing in the last light of an early spring evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629514814255-TPXXS99FXALP532GCQ9S/di001036.jpg Vegetative States - Devils in the Details Image code: #di001036 A thriving patch of high-desert plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603198164744-EGAITE7M92N3TG7YAATL/di001771.jpg Vegetative States - Ponderosa in Blue Image code: #di001771 Ponderosa pines covered in hoar frost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970425061-SEQ0NX13XD30TU0PMD3K/f000150.jpg Vegetative States - Iridescent Chaos Image code: #f000150 “Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world, I feel colored by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.” ~Paul Cezanne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1653238757755-KQKJRFU8GAJ7FYECL4K4/f000734.jpg Vegetative States - Personality Disorder Image code: #f000734 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1653238756121-0BWDPI95HBGI7U7ABIUX/f000666.jpg Vegetative States - Endangered Bouquet Image code: #f000666 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1653238755495-G0YI76ICJHHDNFYRMUUQ/f000301.jpg Vegetative States - The Struggle Begins Image code: #f000301 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1651083506400-I0L7BT11DK2QI3K0QNR7/f000699.jpg Vegetative States - End of our Errors Image code: #f000699 Amaranth bushes glowing as faint light filters through a forest of recently burned ponderosa pines. This image is part of my ongoing project to visit areas affected by wildfires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1643051954896-UER325Z62BSLXEWHOUGZ/f000574.jpg Vegetative States - Forest Elegy Image code: #f000574 Goldenrods and buckwheats rise out of the ashes of a burned ponderosa pine forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1651083508675-UW1SPQE955W82ABWV4Z2/f000700.jpg Vegetative States - Mourning Light Image code: #700 Amaranth bushes glowing as faint light filters though a forest of recently burned ponderosa pines. This image is part of my ongoing project to visit areas affected by wildfires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639780668128-7M4YX79AQFSSMOGR52AG/f000584.jpg Vegetative States - Reclamation Image code: #f000584 Vibrant new foliage of gambel oaks rises from among charred skeletons after the previous summer’s fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1651083506776-02Y0U4AQ0PG85RX2VC1U/di001281.jpg Vegetative States - Among the Skeletons Image code: #di001281 Gambel oaks in autumn color reclaim a mountainside covered in ponderosa pines that had burned in a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639780666033-BZO7WPUAN1LVHYTFIT9K/f000576.jpg Vegetative States - Revival Image code: #f000576 Gambel oaks in vibrant autumn color reclaim a hillside burned in a summer wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1679853341351-BEIZCJJX2U2MVQ7PDCI0/f000767.jpg Vegetative States - Remnants Image code: #f000767 Fallen pinyon pine cones among dead sagebrush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161667295-9T82FHQ302OSD764X7C1/f000067.jpg Vegetative States - Between a Rock and a Hard Place Image code: #f000067 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1639780186436-IOF9FBIABL4RY2ZWACDM/dl000426.jpg Vegetative States - Vincent's Tree Image code: #dl000426 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1738343698771-686OKKM9GD6NO7KBF2LY/de000470.jpg Vegetative States - Autumn Mosaic Image code: #de000470 Aspen and maple trees in autumn color. https://guytal.com/sandstone-worlds daily 0.75 2022-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475019453-ODWY0DS4TCH8C1U591IO/do000092.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Geologic Surrealism Image code: #do000092 Sandpaper plant growing out of a crack in wildly colored Jurassic sandstone. Water pockets in the rock filled by recent rains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475046554-FONEAP1N6AP722WM9W79/dn001011.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Dream Within A Dream Image code: #dn001011 “Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.” ~Edgar Allan Poe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475078613-1YEEBIZ7GXHE8P0TSRHM/dn000663.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Sandstone Sketch Image code: #dn000663 Sandpaper plant growing in a crack in colorful Jurassic sandstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475118630-N8W49WZ6BMDAJ3FUTK4V/dn001031.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Psychotropic Sandstone Image code: #dn001031 Deposits of iron and manganese paint psychedelic patterns in a colorful sandstone alcove. If you look closely, you may find an ancient petroglyph of a bighorn sheep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475162111-XZSF54I3R2S9CR9EUFDH/dn000981.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Change of Pace Image code: #dn000981 Row of trees in autumn color growing along a creek in a steep desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475200806-2A07E7FJ7FWFCDG57V0K/dn001043.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Flowing Rock Image code: #dn001043 Colorful layered sandstone sculpted and smoothed by eons of floods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475234623-FNMGAXAENT1TPYJZDVAG/c001253.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Late Autumn in the Canyon Image code: #c001253 A canyon floor covered in fallen yellow maple leaves after the autumn season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475265586-GL0UXPVX78AJV81RSR0J/c000239.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Striped Slot Image code: #c000239 Looking out into a narrow slot canyon. This place has now become known and popular, but at the time I made this photograph it was little known and had no marked trail. I remember the exposure, on 4x5 film, took eight minutes, as I sat ther equietly admiring the peace and the beautiful glow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475295991-WE0QT9BFUHTBDSEZOFT8/c001070.jpg Sandstone Worlds - The Next Turning Image code: #c001070 “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you—beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.” ~Edward Abbey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475680127-VQS2ZT0F1OJDDX0G9NUX/de001915.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Variation on a Rhapsody Image code: #de001915 Elegant swirls of eroded sandstone. The title refers to a former image I titled, “Rhapsody in Sandstone.” In time, I came to like the variation better than the original. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475395423-YSW7LL5BD3VKKWHY2OIA/de001916.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Speed of Silence Image code: #de001916 Sandstone eroded by wind, leaving thin delicate shelves of the layers that were a bit harder to erode than others. Despite the strong lines and intense colors, at that moment I had the place to myself and it was as perfectly still and quiet as you can imagine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475317279-9YRO6RZ6SN96DKMJO8ZC/dc000242.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Petrified Velvet Image code: #dc000242 The warm glow of reflected light in the narrows of a slot canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475470714-D0SB9CPZQKHDIARIOCBC/di001313.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Waterlines Image code: #di001313 Variance in the coloring and texture of the bottom of a canyon wall tells the stories of different periods in the canyon’s recent past. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475367935-NH6AUDDT9JWN40FJHE9Z/dc000487.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Hidden Autumn Image code: #dc000487 Small boxelder tree rooted in a canyon wall, in golden autumn foliage. The person who told me about this place swore me to secrecy. It is within walking distance of a small town, and this creek is its only water source. Walking alone in this narrow channel, the sound of gurgling water echoing off the walls, was a peaceful and beautiful experience, and is among my most cherished memories. I’ve had the pleasure of having this place to myself a few times over a period of a few years. Today, it is a well-known attraction, and the town developed a paid parking area for it. I doubt one can walk alone in this canyon on any autumn day, anymore. Some say that such places become popular for a reason. That is true. It’s also true that some keep them secret for a reason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475531373-36KUCEZFQMXM1QYWXUTV/de002230.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Dawn Above the Canyon Image code: #de002230 A pristine sandstone canyon filled with green after a good monsoon rain season. This was my morning view, sipping coffee shortly after waking up in my camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475562011-OIZ1VCUVU9OK01FCNZA7/de003185.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Depth Perception Image code: #de003185 This is a single exposure. I could describe what you are looking at, but I would rather not. I think the mystery is much more enjoyable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475589790-Z9WFTJRG2TQQW91V1DPI/dh000671.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Seasonal Effect Image code: #dh000671 Fir trees growing on a high ledge in a deep canyon, dusted in remnants of a light snowfall the previous night. Spring season in the high desert is never predictable. Those who spend time alone in in these places, during this season, must be prepared for nearly any kind of weather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475620381-0ZY7OGAZBVXZFGM30GP4/di000250.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Monumental Eve Image code: #di000250 I arrived at my campsite, a short walk away from this view of the canyon of one of the Colorado Plateau’s largest desert rivers, in the afternoon. A monsoon thunderstorm was building up, and soon after building camp I had to stay in for about an hour as the mesa I was on was hit with torrential rain and lightning strikes. Although I did not know it at the time, the storm had washed away parts of the long dirt road I drove in on, and I was stranded. Road crews arrived late the following morning and took most of the day to make the road drivable again. I didn’t know any of this until I drove out two days later and realized the road had been re-graded, and deep ruts still remained, marked with red cones. Anyone traveling these roads during monsoon season should be prepared and carry sufficient supplies for at least a couple of days (and in some places, where roads are not maintained, an emergency beacon). As the storm passed, shortly before sunset, I was sitting on a rock admiring this view with a glass of tequila in my hand. Realizing the beauty that was slowly unfolding, I left the glass on the rock and walked back to get my camera. Not only was I alone, as far as I could see or hear, but because of the storm damage, nobody could have driven in even if they wanted to. A world to myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606067052461-I4STI3ONIOYT3YMO061W/di000296.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Tantalizing Waters Image code: #di000296 A pool of crystalline fresh rainwater nestled in a pocket on the edge of a high mesa, overlooking the arid desert below. One desert plant found the perfect balance of an abundant water source and a secure patch of soil to set root in. Just beyond it is a spectacular drop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628882086277-BYCYOY4IO3TNE8VOHMUO/f000137.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Rock Enigma Image code: #dn001086 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476144014-ZZG98ACTABNYQLA1QC5U/dn000455.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Worlds Within Worlds Image code: #dn000455 Sandstone cliffs reflecting in shallow canyon pool filled with fallen cottonwood leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475789475-M4SL3XHOTXFPYT8HSCDL/di001700.jpg Sandstone Worlds - The Flash Flood Cometh Image code: #di001700 I knew that a series of thunderstorms were on their way to this area and forecasted to trigger major flash floods. I drove to a place where I knew I would likely be stranded for a couple of days, with plenty of supplies. I hiked out to this alcove and set up a comfortable camp in a large patch of soft, dry, sand in the back recesses of the alcove, protected from rain. And I waited. This was the beginning of what soon became a veil of brown water—not very photogenic, but one of the most memorable experiences I’ve had in this desert. I spent two nights in the alcove, and this is the only time the wash above it flooded. I then spent three more nights car-camping a few miles away before attempting to drive out once the dirt roads were cleared. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475759986-XXS2EWNO90YUOQ1RGLKX/di001748.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Luminous Ceiling Image code: #di001748 The ceiling of an unusual double-chambered alcove. Signs of human occupation suggest that archaic people lived here—some of the earliest humans in the Americas, and certainly in this area. This was their ceiling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068898395-747S29COHVBLRDUBUGS2/di001524.jpg Sandstone Worlds - What Lies Ahead Image code: #di001524 When conditions like these (approaching storm) occur unexpectedly, sometimes I reach for the camera, and sometimes I find a comfortable place to sit and appreciate where I get to be and the things I get to see. Sometimes I’ll turn my attention to the camera afterward, but not always. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475953812-8STTTXT8RZPPB2M8CQA3/di001985.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Late Autumn Storm Image code: #di001985 An autumn storm approaches the great canyon of a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476094273-CZ8PE27O1B080V84HZJL/dn000061.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Hazy Canyon Morning Image code: #dn000061 In late autumn, the sun hangs low in the sky most of the day. After a stretch of clear days, the air fills with dust and other particulates, making it appear hazy, and making beams and shadows visible and ethereal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476014958-5Q314S0FTTF8R70FJTVU/dl000318.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Flow of Life Image code: #dl000318 A green band of vegetation marking the path of a desert river, carves a sinuous path through immense layers of rock and earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475983177-SPKSZW4NLKKZ3GGPF6IF/dl000025.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Sandstone Lullaby Image code: #dl000025 A young ash tree, dormant and bare for the winter, against a sandstone wall of curving, elegant, tafoni. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476040988-YWFBPEJGEAL9D5PUNTTS/dn000661.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Time Travel Image id: #dn000661 Light reflected into a narrow slot canyon reveals stories on many time scales: the previous day’s winds that blew a dry shrub into the canyon; the death of the plant, likely weeks before, and its sprouting, likely a few years before; a small dune of sand eroded off the sandstone walls in the course of decades, perhaps centuries; the sandstone consisting of Jurassic-period sand dunes compressed into rock form in the course of tens of millions of years; and the presence of the photographer, a few decades in age, and having fewer decades of life remaining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476121706-SK044WGAIHG168PDEC7G/dn000649.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Restful Tapestry Image code: #dn000649 The presence of reeds marks the presence of a desert spring, despite there being no water on the surface. Gambel oaks, now bare for the winter, take advantage of the bounty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476197723-54GXLB638FP030WVYF6S/do000047.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Rincon Sanctuary Image code: #do000047 Shaft of light shining onto a mat of soft grasses in a sheltered space behind a rincon (island of rock formed when a creek abandons its former path and switches to a new one). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476225669-PFDNYI6GTK08JWJTJZTF/do000108.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Desert River Repose Image code: #do000108 Late afternoon light illuminates a sandstone cliff above a bend in a desert river. Peaceful and lonesome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596476251086-OKLOKN14OCU61AQK9O5H/dc000603.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Better Days Image code: #dc000603 Blooming prickly pear cactus against a backdrop of an early monsoon thunderstorm in the sandstone desert. I picked the title for this image a few years after I made it, during a difficult time, and remembering the beauty of this late spring day, mixed with the scents of wet earth and desert brush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068615610-J5MJP5SE70U3XWRV16SZ/f000244.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Quiet Awe Image code: #f000244 Canyon walls glowing in late afternoon light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068616953-Y2R4BH30LVVOG599H3RL/f000243.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Sigh of Relief Image code: #f000243 View from my campsite after a long day of travel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068617397-5AKQBHQ0CFZV8PFKHCVO/f000245.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Until Tomorrow Image code: #f000245 Last light, seconds before the sun disappeared behind a cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628882438026-DWGIHHDHVNX14LKPSXRP/f000415.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Celestial Portal Image code: #f000415 Deep water pocket in a “brain rock” sandstone formation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628882258702-H2TJ9F18O77YPDX92RYG/dn001128.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Sky Pool Image code: #dn001128 A chain of sandstone water pockets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475499841-KI21S32UUV2G96PBGPQ7/de002205.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Canyon Moment Image code: #de002205 Sometimes, while hiking, you just have to stop and stand still to realize you are the noisiest thing around. Suddenly, the world becomes silent, and you can make out the faint gurgling of flowing water, droplets hitting stone, and the whisper of wind in the trees just beyond the bend. Those familiar with such sensations likely also know that the combination of hushed sounds echoing within a deep canyon can be confused easily with muffled speech. It takes conscious effort to convince yourself that no other person is within many miles. This is just what this place sounds like when no people are present, which is a great majority of the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628883551127-JLDS3KWNXWEG2KRZW149/di000807.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Stranded Image code: #di000807 Tree log wedged high above the floor of a slot canyon, where it was deposited by a flash flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1596475814984-4BZILBDBSBAZ9EWDN2NV/di001960.jpg Sandstone Worlds - The Way Forward Image code: #di001960 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628883551307-00A08NIW226JKL5GTXKV/de002813.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Parted Veil Image code: #de002813 Sculpted sandstone walls in a slot canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1679852462786-9AURX9S9PUHHSOFDUN0R/di000632.jpg Sandstone Worlds - The Wait Image code: #di000632 Dormant scrub oaks lined in snow, against a canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1609970431695-A4H5MBM0ZDK10A444V1J/f000219.jpg Sandstone Worlds - Where Life Hides Image code: #f000219 A short stretch of surface water in an otherwise mostly dry canyon, this place attracts wildlife from miles away. The tracks along the creek are of bighorn sheep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1679852350834-I3MDVJVX8Z0TPNZOGNLA/di001562.jpg Sandstone Worlds - What's Next? Image code: #di001562 A perennial creek meanders through a steep desert canyon. https://guytal.com/adjectives-for-storms daily 0.75 2024-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440032760-ZCKHAPGSZ0S9AD4IT2XI/de003142.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Emotional Image code: #de003142 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440054086-2UVNCSTFC8A9M1XQV1EJ/de003063.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Quiet Image code: #de003063 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440070216-GGCFZ7YL8EB68WFP5SDD/de003108.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Perfect Image code: #de003108 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306516372-E2HG4X2W35MC2ASV7OY1/di001105.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Poetical Image code: #di001105 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708026215190-7GSG1IUJ68ZAYQ1EJ3BF/di001111.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Towering Image code: #di001111 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306516066-3IWQ3XUBKY788OO3J9FG/di001103.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Uplifting Image code: #di001103 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440090224-M18EZGX9OOH7G2SJOCXH/di002004.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Heavy Image code: #di002004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440106072-OV1N4HL17LATRQ1XQ2V3/de003140.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Ethereal Image code: #de003140 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440137808-96MT186T1ESTSHEEVS1P/de003082.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Heavenly Image code: #de003082 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708026980446-P6K49Y9PR8E6J70DFYY9/f000463.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Mournful Image code: #f000463 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708026981359-OGQBGPGEZG5LWMA95VCA/f001050.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Melancholy Image code: #f001050 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708026980501-AFDPO3USQ9JBWHBWSHNT/f001045.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Forlorn Image code: #f001045 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440152509-UBC8ULVDD65IYNSFNX3Z/di001957.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Gathering Image code: #di001957 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440170075-MU80T6TPXG4Z9L0V2B80/dn000084.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Comforting Image code: #dn000084 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440214286-SPJD2E7RO9KKC07M2QSS/dn000725.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Restful Image code: #dn000725 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306525877-KE0WSGT8FEDNNEUX12YC/dl000078.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Unforgettable Image code: #dl000078 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306520112-FFYS2OUFSA5VX5XFO8Q2/di001664.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Soaring Image code: #di001664 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306527463-LQ4B7EPEYGL4XJP6FP08/dl000472.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Drifting Image code: #dl000472 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440232478-KEBDX5FY111PNBFCXJ86/dl000101.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Benevolent Image code: #dl000101 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440251754-5XTSHEOVST7S40ZIFHTE/di000304.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Demonic Image code: #di000304 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440269661-1S7OP3X5FRLXV20981VT/e000007.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Biblical Image code: #e000007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306534586-QMK75W3H504DKK496L24/e000015.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Breathing Image code: #e000015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306532662-7WRQH7LQOVYLBE5T8W51/e000001.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Beckoning Image code: #e000001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306533462-8A145TDUA56E3W9XY1DI/e000003.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Revelatory Image code: #e000003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440288683-74BDS9XINSUPV27VNM3H/dl000402.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Hovering Image code: #dl000402 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440305967-PBH51KMPUFMGKI8H2V4R/di000099.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Distant Image code: #di000099 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614440332980-LDOB25ZS2Q9E8EEQYZPN/di000102.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Brewing Image code: #di000102 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708273073363-Z0WIGGPIS0X85BPGXBMR/f000475.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Remindful Image code: #f000475 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708273072376-OW5DN526BFG46NG7QOEL/de002494_b.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Liberating Image code: #de002494 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708273072542-L22Z79UD2BRIYUC41V8H/f000432.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Charged Image code: #f000432 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349375505-B3FX3YZFCU3Q0UW9D61B/dn001179.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Menacing Image code: #dn001179 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349376293-V54G6ECZLSTILWP3B5FH/dn000128.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Metamorphic Image code: #dn000128 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349375482-J66XVDUT4AXYJB4NRX2B/dn000347.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Postapocalyptic Image code: #dn000347 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708026167785-U1XTTME1FUO9VL1YKXNS/g000057.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Feathery Image code: #g000057 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306510518-B74NBN0B86SPO2ECXE5W/di000248.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Monumental Image code: #di000248 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708026167784-CBKYTIFV9EI7OFHG8T9A/di001184.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Screaming Image code: #di001184 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349719341-PHAW2KQI2UKTN36V2LRB/dp000069.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Meandering Image code: #dp000069 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349720157-5OUO54MVU5GXGZZOKZ9O/dn000301.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Singular Image code: #dn000301 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349719335-ZDAHKCC3GK0OSE6M2J8E/dn000322.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Contrapuntal Image code: #dn000322 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708027499166-EX0QQNH5IPZCO19VEMYV/di001462.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Saturating Image code: #di001462 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708027498195-8NTS5TT0J3LG77VSWCPJ/di001433.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Lamentful Image code: #di001433 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708027498242-A1M5I6P6DCQOUSYJASTB/di001430.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Propitious Image code: #di001430 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349107859-0L4JHN17AX4OB5Z1HQKC/di001762.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Vaporous Image code: #di001762 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708271298688-QB3WTMHJEN88NHHE0Q9V/dl000105.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Equivalent Image code: #dl000105 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616349107940-B3PTI3H1S7NM3ER0PAJV/f000338.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Incomprehensible Image code: #f000338 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708027848291-SNQHZLH6VN4IHWI9RTEM/f000446.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Primordial Image code: #f000446 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708027847503-EYY1OO3MTEH91XGJJNV5/dl000400.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Unexpected Image code: #dl000400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708027847336-QTBUOQNMNOXNUCWF4LLE/di001939.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Sweeping Image code: #di001939 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616351572906-SJYE2K34F1NPLCEG9M66/dl000467.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Palliative Image code: #dl000467 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616351573686-PIA6L3ELXELU3SLWE4CQ/de002788_b.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Tantalizing Image code: #de002788 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1616353201520-GBNZ03PMSTQIT0EC9TLC/di000273.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Mysterious Image code: #di000273 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708271495306-H0OY144W8XZD4PQHHJO7/dn000874.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Driving Image code: #dn000874 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708271493871-7VCVFG8XL4VKK6OBXVDY/dn000870.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Awaiting Image code: #dn000870 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708271494008-AAKU1EKM9B8ZTVYPF5P2/de002878.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Homebound Image code: #de002878 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628876858335-CVI9DK5O6ACW8WGLIIVR/f000480.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Whispering Image code: #f000480 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628876669798-X5S7U26WBBTU78V12HF1/f000464.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Redoubtable Image code: #f000464 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628876670559-877HQLNOZJXOULHS051X/f000474.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Relentless Image code: #f000474 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306516796-CQHY51WIEQOLCPJGFJ9I/di001213_new.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Whispering Image code: #di001213 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306509185-8E8E3SBNXZUKM0EMWZ1O/de002790.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Tantalizing Image code: #de002790 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1753022256362-NOH3UGWPXM67BX1MNJ46/di001880.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Apparitional Image code: #di001880 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628876669797-8TBW8C8D58LMFXHRC0ZS/f000447.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Stalwart Image code: #f000447 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628876671461-YB9410VX5RW98BEGG3E8/f000485.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Serene Image code: #f000485 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1628876671641-56P7O5GRH25ZN19IV4L0/f000487.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Slithery Image code: #f000487 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708274201522-L1TO2M0KGU2D9F2RPH4N/f000549.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Psychedelic Image code: #f000549 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708274200496-CDNESJ4AFBO2IYRRBIK7/de002194.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Ennobling Image code: #de002194 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708274200817-U0Z7K6XK3M6XKFUVITPG/dn000060.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Soothing Image ode: #dn000060 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553757199-AY6OOT6R3UZVEMFAZWYU/f000832.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Vatic Image code: #f000832 This image is part of my series titled, “Adjectives for Desert Storms.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553756386-41L2LS4DH44E216ONSXN/f000748.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Ominous Image code: #f000748 This image is part of my series titled, “Adjectives for Desert Storms.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1673553757445-JRB6FD0388K2EJLFKQ9Q/f000857.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Taunting Image code: #f000857 This image is part of my series titled, “Adjectives for Desert Storms.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708274721457-3W8VK80OXJJU2MPFNRDU/dh000738.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Nurturing Image code: #dh000738 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708274721516-P84K9WRJVEDJ520R9VF7/f000455.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Streaming Image code: #f000455 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708274722247-YIMFTBCR8MVX9EBDA4PF/f000791.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Blanketing Image code: #f000791 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708275547219-EY9EDFWP644H2JEW9UO9/dn000318.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Reassuring Image code: #dn000318 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708275566582-FFA1XMI4FKO0EPUMD2K2/dn000321.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Piercing Image code: #dn000321 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1708275547326-OVY2S3EJIQ0WXAUZI0FI/f000977.jpg Adjectives for Desert Storms (Mixed Color/B&W) - Nocturnal Image code: #f000977 https://guytal.com/search-site daily 0.75 2019-09-21 https://guytal.com/magic-water daily 0.75 2022-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435335455-M2VZIMQ23G31G0ZD115N/de001684.jpg If There Is Magic - Foam Warp Image code: #de001684 Fallen yellow aspen leaf floating among foam patterns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435354953-0OI8PKL6ULDTJZ2GMYNS/de001442.jpg If There Is Magic - Slow Boil Image code: #de001442 Foam patterns over a shallow pool at the outlet of an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435374862-2MQK89B7F2FV8JJXKXCJ/de001443.jpg If There Is Magic - Blue Cauldron Image code: #de001443 Swirling aspen leaves and foam patterns on a shallow pool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435543599-PHZYJIPCJ8A7ZP9SN5LA/dl000217.jpg If There Is Magic - Playful Iridescence Image code: #dl000217 Flowing water over colorful pebbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435565016-BJTIU6GZ3DB1J1C6833F/di001634.jpg If There Is Magic - Fond Memory Image code: #di001634 Patterns of a desert creek flowing over sandstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435589308-JBZVI0Q837H4Y1EADBFW/dl000223.jpg If There Is Magic - Restless Peace Image code: #dl000223 Patterns of water flowing over colorful pebbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435395739-U8GI2VNDSKNVXFSNRUR6/dl000046.jpg If There Is Magic - Liquid Gems Image code: #dl000046 Bubbling water in a desert creek refracts light and colorful pebbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435424414-GO9D9KK59M9EE79ODL07/dl000047.jpg If There Is Magic - Flowing Crystals Image code: #dl000047 Colorful pebbles below the surface of a shallow desert creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435446262-LJBFZXU1MV5UN1RYYRTF/di001642.jpg If There Is Magic - Wet Dream Image code: #di001642 Shallow desert creek flowing over colorful pebbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435469343-VVXC5RBBPIAX7W7P2TWM/de001828.jpg If There Is Magic - After the Ice Image code: #de001828 Patterns and ripples on the surface of a thawing lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435490022-JQX4XSAAWU2ATTW13F96/di001714.jpg If There Is Magic - A Merging of Worlds Image code: #di001714 Aspen trees slowly turning into autumn colors, reflecting in an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435522793-O35533KA56QUOPCP14LU/de002567.jpg If There Is Magic - Liquidity Image code: #de002567 Young cottonwood and willows reflecting in a desert creek lined with green algae. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435611060-HM4W5MKV7BJHFZE5EW8N/dn000458.jpg If There Is Magic - Ultramarine Image code: #dn000458 Fallen cottonwood leaves floating in iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435634322-B13J3FZ3FSPZ248DN63Q/dn000457.jpg If There Is Magic - Miniature Icebergs Image code: #dn000457 Shards of thin iridescent biofilm floating on a shallow pool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435679197-FLT4G2BRLABRGFJRBXTO/di000506.jpg If There Is Magic - Liquid Iridescence Image code: #di000506 Cottonwood leaves floating among iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435697676-7H1M4QQ7KR7NSH9NY7D6/dl000123.jpg If There Is Magic - Iridescent Decay Image code: #dl000123 Fallen cottonwood leaf in canyon pool covered in a thin sheet of iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435715991-P6SZ0ZKUVV8P25V4GHN6/dl000122.jpg If There Is Magic - Fragments of Decay Image code: #dl000122 Fallen cottonwood leaf floating among iridescent biofilm shards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435738043-LQH5H6D45GCATB9Y2LCR/dl000224.jpg If There Is Magic - Every Last Drop Image code: #dl000224 Likely the last bit of sunlight this fallen leaf, barely hanging on to the sandstone bottom of a shallow desert creek, will ever see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655051166403-U9DI1Q7239FLB0HYLBP4/c001035.jpg If There Is Magic - Suspended Animation Image code: #c001035 Maple leaves, ash leaves, and pine needles trapped in a thin sheet of ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655051170536-65THO7ACCB8JYRDU9KEG/di000514.jpg If There Is Magic - Swirling Away Image code: #di000514 Fallen autumn cottonwood leaves swirl among eddies of foam at the bottom of a small canyon waterfall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655051166229-EIQOO9ZQ1V4257LPR9VT/c001115.jpg If There Is Magic - Until Next Life Image code: #c001115 Maple leaves trapped in thin sheet of ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655051168105-10MZ5L7BON73QHA4WVIL/de000637.jpg If There Is Magic - Sensuous Subduction Image code: #de000637 Boxelder leaf trapped in ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655051170246-I22YU2Y1ZJF8KL06YVDJ/dk000048.jpg If There Is Magic - Ice Irises Image code: #dk000048 Ice patterns reminiscent of iris flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655051168038-BBH1Q3CTPCYI42UU0RG9/de000638.jpg If There Is Magic - Unbidden Farewell Image code: #de000638 Boxelder leaf trapped in ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655667899249-SK1KAMGYW74J309LF7XF/dh000797.jpg If There Is Magic - Temptations Image code: #dh000797 Cottonwood leaf, and unfortunate insect, floating over a thin layer of iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655667900275-E0TDHLMWBGMM25EGBG85/do000015.jpg If There Is Magic - Psychedelia Image code: #do000015 Iridescent biofilm at the edge of a desert creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655667899260-I7CH95JK8B5KQ588Q011/di001733.jpg If There Is Magic - Aquarelle Image code: #di001773 Cottonwood leaf floating among colorful reflections and iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435759638-81MOPJ2AES3XZG419GE5/dl000112.jpg If There Is Magic - Winter Lullaby Image code: #dl000112 Bare cottonwood trees reflect in a canyon pool covered in iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435775504-CMDR0WG1M6WN5I8IUFI8/dl000119.jpg If There Is Magic - Liquid Hallucination Image code: #dl000119 Cottonwood trees reflecting in desert pool covered in iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435792651-VQYBDNLCVU7AM3I2AAD7/dl000113.jpg If There Is Magic - Winter Dream Image code: #dl000113 Trees reflecting in desert pool covered in iridescent biofilm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435813083-DU2D9WVPNEYPL8S0JPXZ/de001558.jpg If There Is Magic - Tinaja Reflections Image code: #de001558 Fallen cottonwood leaves floating in a tinaja (desert water pocket), reflecting a sandstone canyon wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435837071-7H9VA3EWRH0EUTEPGJ32/dn000455.jpg If There Is Magic - Worlds Within Worlds Image code: #dn000455 Sandstone cliffs reflecting in shallow canyon pool filled with fallen cottonwood leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435854652-KL79OPN81QDPNT6OQ8SS/de002024.jpg If There Is Magic - Sapling in the Clouds Image code: #de002024 After a good rainy season, this aspen sapling sprouted at the edge of an alpine lake. In time, the water will recede back to its normal levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435891127-OHM47OA4NGIHPP2CA7LT/do000071.jpg If There Is Magic - Smooth and Curvy Image code: #do000071 Smooth sandstone sculpted by desert creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435914090-N40YWH6ZO7X8IGY74X79/de002167.jpg If There Is Magic - Dawn on the Lake Image code: #de002167 Red dawn sky reflecting in the rippled waters of an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435931366-0UG1F4TY2KLT751WSRI1/dn000219.jpg If There Is Magic - Desert Sky Reflection Image code: #dn000219 Recent rain water reflecting the evening sky as it slowly evaporates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435947500-R76IIHS4MRZXPH3P8BB9/di001768.jpg If There Is Magic - Ephemeral Flow Image code: #di001768 Small waterfall forming in a fluted sandstone pathway during a flash flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435965605-MRMRIPPDJJWNDEMMSLNK/di001154.jpg If There Is Magic - Intaglio Image code: #di001154 Pattern in wet earth along a desert creek, reflecting red glow coming off the canyon walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614435985430-PE26C9DZYXLNZS7POPAD/dl000242.jpg If There Is Magic - Rippled Reflection Image code: #dl000242 Wind ripples distort the reflection of a cottonwood tree and canyon wall in a desert pool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655668633563-WS0RA6GAVH9TE3A1NAYK/dl000423.jpg If There Is Magic - String Theory Image code: #dl000423 Ever morphing rings of reflected light form and break with the motion of gentle waves on an alpine lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655668635187-QILPQAHR9KLOYEQYK0B7/dl000502.jpg If There Is Magic - Primordial Image code: #dl000502 Foam patterns below a small waterfall in a desert creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1655668633620-TG0BDG39LNPTPWH10CK2/dl000245.jpg If There Is Magic - Glistening Image code: #dl000245 Shallow flow of water over colorful travertine terraces. https://guytal.com/pom daily 0.75 2019-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1571329087355-XCH3P0N80YUGNU8DTIRG/2019_10_do000065.jpg POM https://guytal.com/make-a-onetime-donation daily 0.75 2020-01-25 https://guytal.com/november-2019-print-of-the-month daily 0.75 2019-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1572185685478-E33YASWFI0UAK9UQB0FV/2019_11_e000063.jpg November 2019 Print of the Month Home Colors https://guytal.com/illuminations-1 daily 0.75 2022-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594068769301-JD0R9CPMGPO42N88RV0P/di001609.jpg Illuminations - Illuminated Alluvium Image code: #di001609 Shaft of light streams down the crevices of an eroded landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069100881-1WML2HB41BADZW97VD71/di001674.jpg Illuminations - Special Relativity Image code: #di001674 Time, light, and gravity in the desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1594069064781-YKEVKNFR6L7SOFUMLNRC/di001616.jpg Illuminations - Luminous Touch Image code: #di001616 Gentle light in the blue desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372739046-MIFHU6RKUVJO3VEJ8TA4/de000686.jpg Illuminations - Gentle Evening Image code: #de000686 Watching the last of the sunlight in perfect silence, from the top of a large sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372760632-IERAKPWRFVLNTOYHD3CI/de002131.jpg Illuminations - The Chasm's Edge Image code: #de002131 Evening spotlight illuminates a large desert butte at the base of a remote mountain range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372782591-NHJJKINJP7EXO4TUARIW/de000682.jpg Illuminations - Evening Among the Dunes Image code: #de000682 Late afternoon sunlight touches the peaks of large sand dunes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372810600-144CP8O7Z9II93UNUNMR/di001009.jpg Illuminations - Castle Gates Image code: #di001009 Chiaroscuro of light filtering through storm clouds, in a landscape of eroded ancient rocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372832104-0M1XQGC1KXKG2HMKF1YI/de003157.jpg Illuminations - Blue Slopes Image code: #de003157 Ephemeral light traverses steep slopes of gray-blue clay, strewn with eroded sandstone boulders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372855367-KVA9BWCU87WMDUURHR75/di001012.jpg Illuminations - Desert Green Image code: #di001012 The desert comes alive after profuse rainfall from monsoon thunderstorms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372895779-FRNPDQDW8EGM8KM9X7JV/de002193.jpg Illuminations - Between the Storms Image code: #de002193 Sagebrush covered slopes glowing in late summer afternoon light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372924254-DYJ2A7BLO2LYCD6OO9U0/dn000340.jpg Illuminations - Sagebrush Undulations Image code: #dn000340 Light streaming through openings in storm clouds, strokes the curves of a sagebrush covered volcanic landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372946219-8ZAPU3YX6TNC5VHMGCLQ/de002399.jpg Illuminations - A Memorable Afternoon Image code: #de002399 Golden light marks the end of a late autumn day on a high volcanic plateau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372967636-VB2G4UO2QPD21YZ86UWO/dl000318.jpg Illuminations - Flow of Life Image code: #dl000318 The canyon of a desert river illuminated by patches of light streaming through openings in storm clouds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614372993204-X08UOAAPCG1J1PC4USRC/di001524.jpg Illuminations - What Lies Ahead Image code: #di001524 Winter storm making its way down a deep desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373016197-B2OX907FZA5WHNCLN95E/dl000024.jpg Illuminations - We of the Desert Image code: #dl000024 "Like a ship moving into port, we of the desert come up into the night." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373139231-GR4ZYS6RC5ZJ5RS8UHRW/di001098.jpg Illuminations - Between Two Eternities Image code: #di001098 "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." ~Vladimir Nabokov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373163359-K9APIGJAEGGZC5K6EZIT/dn000331.jpg Illuminations - Break in the Storm Image code: #dn000331 Light filtering through a thick monsoon storm cloud layer illuminates a canyon rim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373203017-UAXZ1TI50C41NDVRX0AU/dl000386_1.jpg Illuminations - Once Upon a Desert Image code: #dl000386 Shafts of light piercing the cloud cover of a monsoon thunderstorm illuminatng desert cathedrals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373228936-IGYBJULRRAU1DSTKCSQB/dn000527.jpg Illuminations - Homage Image code: #dn000527 Rock spires catching the last light of the day, separating them from a steep slope of rock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373360761-T04XBEZT7VBFGRQS9FR8/dp000060.jpg Illuminations - Connected by Light Image code: #dp000060 A beam of sunliught illuminates a small sagebrush shrub, and touches a single distant rock on the slope of a canyon beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373384968-NIBMEA6B5CKPH486R3HD/dn000534.jpg Illuminations - Light Marks the Spot Image code: #dn000534 The edge of a rock ledge catching the last of the winter's sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373406745-28H1JTQ03RC7N7CZFB86/dn000802.jpg Illuminations - Desert Chiaroscuro Image code: #dn000802 Layers of colorful clay deposited in the Triassic period, glow in dappled light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373429351-PYX3HU9MBR6V57R285XQ/dn000795.jpg Illuminations - Meandering Light Image code: #dn000795 Light filtering through clouds, meanders about the desert landscape, illuminating random parts of it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373459138-M99VNGW82UTTPH79P3XO/dn000785.jpg Illuminations - Canyon Mystique Image code: #dn000785 Chiaroscuro formed by cloud shadows and sunlight streaming through openings in the cloud cover, meandering over a large, dry, desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373496829-38F4DS371DRTC97RC6J1/dn000027.jpg Illuminations - Searchlights Image code: #dn000027 Sunlight pierces through a layer of clouds to illuminate spots in a canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373513697-0ULYLDY2UXANWK57NS4U/dl000346.jpg Illuminations - Purple Prose Image code: #dl000346 Last light above the canyon of a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373545576-1IZNVOF74TIDEHJJXNG1/dn000029.jpg Illuminations - Where Nobody Goes Image code: #dn000029 Desert creek meanders through a remote canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373567915-1AR1IIGLIEP9R4XNSRF2/di002011.jpg Illuminations - The Prophet Image code: #di002011 Joshua Trees are so named because their human-like postures reminded some early Christian settlers of the prophet Joshua. I'm not sure whether people of other traditions had similar anthropomorphic ideas of these yuccas (not actually trees), but I can speak to the eerie feeling of camping among them, and being in their company in the twilight hours when my unconscious mind keeps seeing human figures all around me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373587962-5RFH27A5UDE0JE5NLUB6/di001761.jpg Illuminations - Borderline Image code: #di001761 The skeleton of a dead tree witnessing the arrival of evening on one side and the last light of the day on the other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373610129-CTJWOTUBRP7D94EXT1XJ/dn000184.jpg Illuminations - Yearning Image code: #dn000184 The very last of the sunlight kisses the very tops of the cliffs as night falls over the desert. For some reason, in times like these is when I am most aware of the peace and silence and the absence of traces of humanity. These are also the moments I yearn for in other times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373633539-EHOX9HSDMXNVEW9GUEF3/di001759.jpg Illuminations - Celestial Miniature Image code: #di001759 Small rocks form an other-worldly diorama. They are, of course, made of elements forged elsewhere in the universe, some by the violent explosion of giant stars; and some may yet become other stars and celestial bodies long after our solar system is gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373666212-0BGHVWM67C51DP2VS85F/dn000508.jpg Illuminations - Accented Edges Image code: #dn000508 Although I did not plan for it, I found myself looking at this sheer cliff face, dozens of feet tall, at the exact time when an inches-thick layer of it caught the sunlight while the rest of the rock face was in shade. I suspect this only happens for a few days each year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373688039-73GEVL4R2UDMW74PDFP4/dp000005.jpg Illuminations - Momentary Fame Image code: #dp000005 The top of a nameless clay hill in a remote part of the desert, catching a shaft of light penetrating through a thick cloud layer. I will be very surprised if this hill has ever been visited, let alone photographed, by a human being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373725729-1HGY964VJXGW72BSNU96/dn000991.jpg Illuminations - Winter Phoenix Image code: #dn000991 A bird-like shape emerges for just a few seconds on the desert floor as a winter storm passes through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373746878-66S0636QLPIL6EC60Z70/de003185.jpg Illuminations - Depth Perception Image code: #de003185 This is a single exposure. I could describe what you are looking at, but I would rather not. I think the mystery is much more enjoyable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373768458-I0IC0NVQ91T41JOPHJLL/dc001087.jpg Illuminations - Aglow Image code: #dc001087 Sliver of morning sunlight paints a desert butte in golden hues before the storm clouds close in again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373829563-TNHAU271PHEZVJ5EBSCR/di001459.jpg Illuminations - Break from The Winter Blues Image code: #di001459 A patch of sunlight breaks the dreary monotony of a passing winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373855947-LXHWJIQ0UB6I20RAFIN0/di001208.jpg Illuminations - Early Autumn Storm Image code: #di001208 In these high sagebrush plains, thunderstorms can be violent, but usually for short periods as storm cells wander around the landscapes. The light during such storms, on the other hand, can be profoundly peaceful and revitalizing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373876713-H1820NO9QJVM4C73PX55/di001938.jpg Illuminations - Springtime Above the River Image code: #di001938 The steep slopes above the gorge of a desert river, show a green tint as ephemeral grasses sprout on a short-lived spring season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373937785-S8ONSPGOUU5M8WOUUJPW/e000156.jpg Illuminations - End of Shift Image code: #e000156 Grasses and mormon tea on the rim of a deep canyon, receiving the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373965557-DPWVD4WI9OJ408DP0SBG/e000136.jpg Illuminations - Last Kiss Image code: #e000136 Last light on the rim of a deep canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614373985759-D3N6ALWSC4NDDKSXR6V7/e000153.jpg Illuminations - Day Is Done Image code: #e000153 Last light slowly fading from a small mound covered in desert plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374555685-U2RTZO12J6DWE09L1AWU/f000116.jpg Illuminations - Laser Focus Image code: #f000116 Sunrays piercing through thick thunderstorm clouds illuminate bits of the badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374555723-YJ0XJDEBBBG3Z9AVKJZ4/f000108.jpg Illuminations - Out of Space, Out of Time Image code: #f000108 Streams of sunlight coming through breaks in storm clouds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374557847-16H2QFUVZLBJBLAHE8LN/f000131.jpg Illuminations - Lamentation Image code: #f000131 Openings in storm cloud create spotlights over the badlands landscape and buttes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374262242-QO2YC7ZDQ5KNEW26D4L0/dn001187.jpg Illuminations - Shine On Image code: #dn001187 The skeleton of a long dead pinyon pine catching the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374286517-X2T43TIDSAGCM7RKG7W3/do000047.jpg Illuminations - Rincon Sanctuary Image code: #do000047 Shaft of light shining onto a mat of soft grasses in a sheltered space behind a rincon (island of rock formed when a creek abandons its former path and switches to a new one). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374312784-0B4XGDSCSE8XHVX4CHL4/di001748.jpg Illuminations - Luminous Ceiling Image code: #di001748 The ceiling of a sandstone alcove that thousands of years ago was home to a band of Archaic native people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116259486-60LZMTY4PXEY71IPYOBG/f000520.jpg Illuminations - Streaming Shadows Image code: #f000520 Streaming cloud shadows flow over desert buttes as a monsoon storm approaches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116253318-4Z6C7BC3BOFT8OQ70ITJ/f000489.jpg Illuminations - Afternoon Glow Image code: #f000489 Desert buttes glow in the last light on a hazy summer afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116260201-GHS13XB7BIQZ750RLE9P/f000539.jpg Illuminations - Simple Notes Image code: #f000539 Streaming cloud shadows flow over the desert landscape as a storm approaches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116255237-2X2XY2UCFF1L6ZY8467L/f000516.jpg Illuminations - Light Caress Image code: #f000516 Shafts of light piercing through a cloud-laden stormy sky, caressing the slopes of a desert formation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116253429-RERI96KWTI96CKPSK03Y/f000500.jpg Illuminations - Playful Rock Image code: #f000500 Although seemingly solid to our short-lived perceptions, rocks move and flow, wave and splash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116258097-WAZYFFDEB3TYZ9YM4SQW/f000519.jpg Illuminations - The Place Image code: #f000519 A river landing catches a ray of warm sunlight as a storm passes over the desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116257102-K09QMHNBPH1INAJYCBYQ/f000518.jpg Illuminations - Luminous Stroke Image code: #f000518 Heavy cloud shadows and shafts of light reduce the desert scenery to simple shapes and colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116254629-A0J56SHXALSDSTFTYLFX/f000515.jpg Illuminations - Desert Shangri La Image code: #f000515 A rainbow appears over desert buttes in the light drizzle following the fury of a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631116256314-0TF1KU5547UZGZUI82KH/f000517.jpg Illuminations - Final Encore Image code: #f000517 The last shaft of light touches a desert butte before sunset, after a marvelous light show in the wake of a monsoon storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1658688235350-9JLMQUCD8TDPU19CLUQ2/f000676.jpg Illuminations - Seneh Image code: #f000676 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1658688236185-XX49OPBH8FC3LCLJVNI7/f000691.jpg Illuminations - The Morning After Image code: #f000691 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1658688232651-JXYT85VK1FY8G1YJJJZL/di001691.jpg Illuminations - Lunar Lander Image code: #di001691 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702703519-MFWYWBIWFJHNL6GI72CK/f000679.jpg Illuminations - Peace Restored Image code: #f000679 Sunlight fades from the slope of a desert cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374218350-NB74QUUT6ZL5HBI1D9NN/di001654.jpg Illuminations - Hazy Summer Morning Image code: #di001654 The profiles of ridges and buttes barely seen through the morning haze, colored gold by the early sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1614374243077-TWQWLNNSLYNPJZL4D7HB/e000034.jpg Illuminations - Visual Flow Image code: #e000034 The shadows of passing clouds float over the steep slopes of a desert mountain and its foothills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702711533-HEN7GCOG5CPQ9RI8VR2Y/f000916.jpg Illuminations - End of Shift Image code: #f000916 Low winter sunbeams caress the edges of the rim of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1675889588189-HSGOGZWR9JHYZDTGEJ5A/f000917.jpg Illuminations - Silent Exchange Image code: #f000917 A rock profile and the tip of a cottonwood tree share a narrow beam of sunlight for a few moments each winter morning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678292413100-M1AG6J40J6UR4S16K9IX/f000371.jpg Illuminations - Geologic Twilight Image code: #f000371 Last rays of light fade from a thin remnant of Jurassic sandstone perched atop colorful Triassic silt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1592161651824-YFN0G86UNYFKGGI5R0PL/f000023.jpg Illuminations - Shadow Dancer Image code: #f000023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678292086919-4SYUGNO41BZDOAXLZDST/f000718.jpg Illuminations - Spring Emergence Image code: #f000718 Cottonwood tree branch adorned in new spring foliage, slowly fading into the evening light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678291898634-TBY04PKYXY83I6WMN1YA/dn000594.jpg Illuminations - For a Minute a Day Image code: #dn000594 Small desert plant receives its own ray of sunlight for a few minutes a day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678292772940-ZUA4LNUZAJ54NWONWBT8/f000749.jpg Illuminations - Light Streaker Image code: #f000749 Small chunk of sandstone illuminated by the last light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1668702704517-2J1ZFZUULL8BMLMVQQ8C/f000790.jpg Illuminations - Moonstone Image code: #f000790 The last light of the day touches a small rock and brings out the texture of a sandstone slab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678292621342-LD2C3WXQJ1F4S7RB6D2N/f000750.jpg Illuminations - Celestial Traveler Image code: #f000750 Small rock illuminated by the last of the day’s sunlight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1716302208006-Y8GESKA9IJGFOKXC1R64/f001088.jpg Illuminations - Twilight Crooner Image code: #f001088 Rock wren on a canyon's edge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705096166343-60PEH8J82QR657SUNMAN/g000122.jpg Illuminations - Growing Good Image code: #g000122 “When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think as I really think; after a time it always seems as though they want to banish me from myself and rob me of my soul - and I grow angry with everybody and fear everybody. I then require the desert, so as to grow good again.” —Friedrich Nietzsche https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1716302206923-Q3TFTXPLYPN8H6DNFWO8/f000675.jpg Illuminations - Good Neighbor Image code: #f000675 Wild burro among creosote bushes in the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062449944-H1ZE6T8SSRYQAW7TVMLB/f001084.jpg Illuminations - A Season's End Image code: #f001084 Small cottonwood tree showing the last of its autumn foliage in the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062455082-HT7D0RKAPV122A6PSKYP/f000233.jpg Illuminations - Shine On Image code: #f000233 Small aspen tree in autumn foliage absorbing the last ray of light before sunset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1742062446496-NTGE1YT4QUHFPHBAVF6Q/g000133.jpg Illuminations - Treading Light Image code: #g000133 Willow branch catching the last light of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1731616625727-E7VV9MPJNI0O6D6S5YF9/f001087.jpg Illuminations - Immense Simplicity Image code: #f001087 A beam of light pierces through a deep canyon to light up a narrow bench. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1731616627625-HFQE7ERCB2MNUJHLTS7T/g000147.jpg Illuminations - Resting Place Image code: #g000147 A bend in a desert river lit momentarily as a storm moves in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1731616625662-K9QLCQ5T7Y526BXKS0N4/f001074.jpg Illuminations - Visual Sigh Image code: #f001074 Last light of the day crazes the slope of a desert hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1684511489641-BNR4VF0ML0PQP9J2XGAN/dn000539.jpg Illuminations - Solemnity Image code: #dn000539 Last light on the steep upper slopes of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1684511491087-53EJ6JUEZZ8ZCOX5EQM5/dn000778.jpg Illuminations - Yá'át'ééh Image code: #dn000778 Distant rock forms, sacred to the Navajo people, loom above a desert canyon. “Yá'át'ééh” is a Navajo greeting meaning (roughly) “it is good.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1684511489772-7FCBN4UYIXOE82L4F4C0/dn000090.jpg Illuminations - Inner Conflict Image code: #dn000090 The funneling opposite slopes of a desert canyon glowing in the last light of the day. https://guytal.com/december-2019-print-of-the-month daily 0.75 2019-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1575053335624-P3079UKJ7YZA73NO6VZ3/2019_12_dh000671.jpg December 2019 Print of the Month Seasonal Effect https://guytal.com/january-2020-print-of-the-month daily 0.75 2019-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1577744340882-2ZJ8VKBK4XLT4PLVUPDL/e000080.jpg January 2020 Print of the Month Indian Summer Glow https://guytal.com/february-2020-print-of-the-month daily 0.75 2020-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1580142028195-R1AEDCS9WQ26J9XI51CX/2020_02_de002480.jpg February 2020 Print of the Month Aspens, Filtered Winter Light https://guytal.com/thegoodbadlands daily 0.75 2020-03-01 https://guytal.com/march-2020-print-of-the-month-copy daily 0.75 2020-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1583090551865-QVZFO7ZUPU2AKE7SXS9O/2020_03_di002017.jpg March 2020 Print of the Month Autumn Decadence https://guytal.com/april-2020-print-of-the-month daily 0.75 2020-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1585506042689-2W8SBG5I1R9BKT694RB8/2020_04_dh000579.jpg April 2020 Print of the Month - Graceful Merging Autumn Decadence https://guytal.com/may-2020-print-of-the-month daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1588604921346-98275WEEFB6IWSAP121I/2020_05_dn001034.jpg May 2020 Print of the Month - Polished Path Autumn Decadence https://guytal.com/june-2020-print-of-the-month daily 0.75 2020-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1590765287404-X693SZF4MNOI4M03RECH/2020_06_dl000011.jpg June 2020 Print of the Month - Lost and Found Autumn Decadence https://guytal.com/seeking-questions daily 0.75 2022-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1591809276248-FHOSGTJVB0OXEJ4QMR7G/f000069.jpg Seeking Questions - The Fountainhead? 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Slowing the Flow Image code: #f000270 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306536166-KA2HP2WW6P9BP37I06HM/e000139.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Parting Gift Image code: #e000139 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306540360-BYX9UJMY2GGS9OI11WK9/f000284.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Savoring the Light Image code: #f000284 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306526379-9AMCQYL7I11B6GD7TDR2/di001988.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Rare Delicacy Image code: #di001988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306530931-H4E3HV8SPH6UCAM2VP3X/dn001174.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - The Half-Light Image code: #dn001174 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306524341-EVUFIXEMMG63ADIRVN4R/di001864.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Light Touch Image code: #di001864 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1629306538295-7JZCD90OVIKJ5PZKVK70/f000117.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - 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Vallis Lacrimarum Image code: #f000799 Summer monsoon rains used to occur reliably each year in this desert. In recent years they have become rare. 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The air was filled with smoke from numerous wildfires in the West. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115672136-59LLQ80U124IYVKTYT5I/f000508.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Receding Image code: #f000508 Smoke from numerous wildfires lends a surreal apocalyptic mood to desert buttes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1631115669290-WUPLW6T9FBYH9P9BJFA0/f000384.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Morning Haze Image code: #f000384 Summer haze illuminated by the rising sun in a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1610386970663-NGDUUUPA75AUFO6GSLYO/f000288.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Split Personality Image code: #f000288 A prickly cholla cactus glows in the warm afternoon light of the winter solstice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1610386969006-OAXYGIR4VGSJ8Y7K9Q5K/f000260.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - River Time Image code: #f000260 Last light on steep sandstone cliffs reflecting in a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068194061-LZP0PEY4LTQENF8OMODE/f000245.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Until Tomorrow Image code: #f000245 Last light, seconds before the sun disappeared behind a cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1675889015864-L9UNRLJR6LAXJH5SP7IG/f000937.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Holiday Refuge Image code: #f000937 A sunny Christmas afternoon in the desert, away from the snow and storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068281654-N8OX63UYQJ1AV619GW1P/f000244.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Quiet Awe Image code: #f000244 Canyon walls glowing in late afternoon light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1606068192367-4GMXICFQLNO4FVKNHXK1/f000243.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Sigh of Relief Image code: #f000243 View from my campsite after a long day of travel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603045705761-YTHX6V2YKD0QEVLI5U04/dn000699.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Joshua Tree Diorama Image code: #dn000699 Joshua Trees, yuccas, and other desert plants before a grand desert vista. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1679853027886-FLJ9CS9XNV8G9JYG1BEC/g000034.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - Winter Break Image code: #g000034 Desert spire catching a ray of light, sandwiched between the ominous shadow of clouds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1603043690482-A6CTVTZUM00U7K2KDZFJ/dq000003.jpg Desert Moods (Color) - The Illimitable Desert Image code: #dq000003 “Around me stretches the illimitable desert, and far off and near by are the outposts of suffering, struggling, greedy, grumbling humanity. But I don't choose to join on that footing. I'm sorry for it and I help it when I can, but I'll not shoulder its woes. To live is to be happy; to be carefree, to be overwhelmed by the glory of it all. Not to be happy is a living death.” ~Everett Ruess https://guytal.com/international-book-orders daily 0.75 2024-10-31 https://guytal.com/pledge-of-ethics daily 0.75 2025-07-18 https://guytal.com/ebooks daily 0.75 2023-05-19 https://guytal.com/discounted-books daily 0.75 2025-01-31 https://guytal.com/journal-sketches daily 0.75 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562447582-RP02Q8KLA12YIFTXSYIF/de003231.jpg Journal Sketches - Wise Elder Image code: #de003231 Giant old cottonwood tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562446626-VTV6SWN8UFHBY1PVVQCD/de002415.jpg Journal Sketches - Strength in Numbers Image code: #de002415 A forest of ponderosa pine trees during a snow storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562446020-ZDSNQM2WWVWQBNEO38JN/de001572_b.jpg Journal Sketches - Open Arms Image code: #de001572 Rocky Mountain Juniper in snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562458181-94BUFH38ISAY7VMJOU22/di002043.jpg Journal Sketches - Storm Stroke Image code: #di002043 Windswept patterns in frosted sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562453657-R690WESIC0SF7IA8I4A1/dh000686.jpg Journal Sketches - Infinitude Image code: #dh000686 The rocky and sedimented canyon of a desert river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562463706-BW2SEF4957HT5634MCKT/dn001007.jpg Journal Sketches - Desert Islands Image code: #dn001007 Small desert hills carved and eroded by water and wind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562451134-XJZZ2JZ6DW6L6NK04FOD/dh000528.jpg Journal Sketches - Disciples Image code: #dh000528 A copse of scrub oak in the snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562462286-98XWZ4Z1HEK0QLNKLKS4/dn000096.jpg Journal Sketches - Conclave Image code: #dn000096 Gambel oaks huddled over tufts of grass during snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562461923-QB7ZLXSQ5QB7GH1X2KT9/di002049.jpg Journal Sketches - E Unum Pluribus Image code: #di002049 A single scrub oak, split into many small trunks, during snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562463071-QPEVFJNAPR8EFF1OKW25/dn000234.jpg Journal Sketches - Reductionism Image code: #dn000234 The slopes of desert badlands accentuated with snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562460422-YSUUCFC7K2MT9QDPOUSN/di002046.jpg Journal Sketches - To Remind Myself Image code: #di002046 Snow-accentuated profiles of barren desert hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562464281-G21531UHX0BLBNI7V7M7/dn001243.jpg Journal Sketches - Broad Strokes Image code: #dn001243 Long view of desert badlands during a winter snow storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562448715-JR8B4QPVU9JND8EJ98X6/de003234.jpg Journal Sketches - Unforgotten Image code: #de003234 Stunted aspen trees encrusted by windswept snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562459789-GSVI6J1B5H4VVV0DFJK5/di002045.jpg Journal Sketches - Details Matter Image code: #di002045 Snow-encrusted cottonwoods and willows growing along a river at the foot of desert badlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562447763-T2LFEM3JTBX3QDRZT6J4/de003233.jpg Journal Sketches - Broken and Defiant Image code: #de003233 An isolated grove of aspen trees, their branches broken by a heavy winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562455368-WGY7Q974VNW33L7U6MXF/di000554.jpg Journal Sketches - Line of Defense Image code: #di000554 Fir trees bearing the brunt of a winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562451669-PO5LVD5FBYRHSDIFOJB3/dh000576.jpg Journal Sketches - Closing Ranks Image code: #dh000576 A row of poplar trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562455932-ZMMFWTXYX5T4ND7OHER2/di000599_m.jpg Journal Sketches - Thinly Veiled Image code: #di000599 Young aspen trees, bare for the winter, growing densely on a mountainside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562457717-V1P1J6FVDSNACC4GP68P/di001978.jpg Journal Sketches - Beacon in the Storm Image code: #di001978 The summit of a desert mountain emerges momentarily from the fury of a winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562449172-PWMJVBLZZLJFCOLXXM4N/de003235.jpg Journal Sketches - Desert Rain Image code: #de003235 Desert mountain engulfed in clouds, soaking in the goodness of a rare rainstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562456909-2A8CP3RSLKJO064QA7T7/di001827.jpg Journal Sketches - Winter Blindness Image code: #di001827 The foothills of a desert mountain loom from the snow as the mountain beyond them is blotted out by the storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562450204-7DH5XJG9T0T4QNB7B60T/dh000440.jpg Journal Sketches - Accentuations Image code: #dh000440 Small sand dune ripples accentuated by dark mineral dust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562458957-V7YV7VD4D4UPIDVUI831/di002044.jpg Journal Sketches - Wind Doodles Image code: #di002044 Patterns of dark minerals deposited by winds over sand dunes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562445317-QCX0OH9PRP0HK6M43C9B/de000024.jpg Journal Sketches - The Long Way Home Image code: #de000024 A lone coyote dwarfed by a vast snow-covered dunes field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562453192-JD299ZEZBPQSFI1NQYLW/di000543.jpg Journal Sketches - Minding the Mound Image code: #di000543 A dome of grasses peeks out from under a thick layer of snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562456637-2PQ6MPC2JFTNHT6JMKEP/di001821.jpg Journal Sketches - Erasure Image code: #di001821 Grasses buffeted by wind and snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1676562454248-6W7UXWRJFQ8QIIZP310B/di000551.jpg Journal Sketches - Scribbles Image code: #di000551 Delicate grasses in snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1677872172827-JWLKOLM1RH0BV1U2UJQT/de001556_b.jpg Journal Sketches - The Way Out, Maybe Image code: #de001556 A stony path through a narrow slot canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1677872174117-9CR646OASVQVON66OMAW/dh000398.jpg Journal Sketches - Into Uncertainty Image code: #dh000398 Mist-filled desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1677872172894-K31YJA51T0FB1NOYA1I3/de001561_b.jpg Journal Sketches - The Crooked and Narrow Image code: #de001561 A narrow passage through a sandstone slot canyon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744112283-MV2OXNL5GE8M1514T69Q/dh000537.jpg Journal Sketches - Solemn Watchers Image code: #dh000537 Wintering bald eagles perched in a large cottonwood tree, surveying a snow-covered field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744114439-FZ3MDPJJNLI44Q9OTHRU/di001953.jpg Journal Sketches - Frosted Younglings Image code: #di001953 Young aspen trees covered in snow and hoar frost after a winter ice storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744116357-OPC8RPKS9RBNJULGWHT5/dn001242.jpg Journal Sketches - Silent Dance Image code: #dn001242 Cottonwood tree looming out of a foggy, snowy field during a winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744124065-8A7U546Z3HFDSOJCG7Y7/f001091.jpg Journal Sketches - Defiant Remnant Image code: #f001091 Old and desiccated juniper tree snag in an arid wash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744130778-Q5H2C5J5ZS8DIXU1QQ50/g000291.jpg Journal Sketches - Kiss Farewell Image code: #g000291 A strand of seaweed washed on the ocean shore, folded in expressive patterns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1749744109517-8FE6OWMFBZVW6ZV4UAWD/de000036_b.jpg Journal Sketches - Sign of Life Image code: #de000036 The tips of a manzanita bush sticking out of a thick layer of snow, one of which still hangs on to the previous season’s leaves. https://guytal.com/mystery-people-warm-tone-bw-copy daily 0.75 2023-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312347354-ROCNQIKDVG9H8EF6K642/dh000641.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Desert Sorcerer Image code: #dh000641 Desert shrub thriving in the thin soil atop a rocky butte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312351104-RV15YCJ96JJAN75C40FH/di001509.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Canyon Dancer Image code: #di001509 Lone pinyon pine, bent by powerful winds, on the edge of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312354636-0ZKRI1E8ME0K92IXZNKU/dn001127.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - The Impossible Dream Image code: #dn001227 Lone indigo bush growing among desert sandstone domes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312363140-KNG77FVGXZM9D2RKY88V/f000960.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Step Into the Light Image code: #f000960 A fox’s footprint on the steep slope of a desert sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312343558-C8SDCUZZ5HR9RPR0AKEM/de002725.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Touched Image code: #de002725 Light fading from desert sand dunes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312342421-8BYT9LZCBPFBJMU2GU85/de000685_b.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Swooning Image code: #de000685 Last light on a desert sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312357837-NJ8T0XNKXIJWUDM71RBP/f000106.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Shadowland Image code: #f000106 Desert butte during a thunderstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312353277-QJF207B4FW125CDU5AI8/dl000191.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Resolute Image code: #dl000191 Desert spire bathed in light and cloud shadows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312358261-GWGTJOVSE6KI7OHX40PB/f000107.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - From Here to There Image code: #f000107 Desert scene lit by errant beams piercing through thick cloud cover during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312345438-DEMOPH9782QGEC3PQSQQ/dg000067.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Fractional Fractal Image code: #dg000067 The fractal branching of a dry alluvial wash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312348209-F53RV5Z6NN9NNHS8UWZ9/di000709.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Streaming Image code: #di000709 Light streaming down a split desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312342361-YLPZPPP1EDUTOA5E9OU4/de000257.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Lightfall Image code: #de000257 Light streaming down the slope of a steep desert hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312361335-WWMX95J76YID39QN7Q1B/f000351.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Well of Souls Image code: #f000351 The fluted rim of a deep desert water pocket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312340930-U7FO39Y7AUM0EP1L8CZV/dc000498.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Touch Me Image code: #dc000498 Fluted sandstone polished by flowing water, filled with light colored sand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312340915-SAG9O4PAK6DZ3IHOB1L7/dc000242_b.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Deco Titan Image code: #dc000242 A large sandstone “gargoyle” in a narrow desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312352225-7Q2OGDKZT6R9Q8IBAE5F/dk000025.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Unbroken Bones Image code: #dk000025 Cottonwood tree reduced to strokes of light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312359649-27DF65UIX0I3Q2AY14PT/f000234.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Delicate Fragility Image code: #f000234 Small aspen tree and grasses catching the last of the day’s light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312360720-APGG4N05W8YIDQZ80QE1/f000327.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Bewitched Image code: #f000327 Tips of a dormant cottonwood tree emerging from the shadows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312362499-CMII5V47JNQTZ6ZSJBAH/f000680.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - No Purchase Image code: #f000680 Ephemeral light hitting a remote and inaccessible desert cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312349647-VDKKL5KQJO8XRNU9TCW9/di000954.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Swoosh Image code: #di000954 The edge of a sloped desert hill catching the light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312360096-WGTG1LZQF9O5MCD3U0YB/f000308.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Healing Scars Image code: #f000308 Last light over creosote bushes and other desert flora growing on the slopes of a desert mountain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312343792-C2YVMR7PQF9YKLHROLEG/de002478_b.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Repeat After Me Image code: #de002478 Low light crazing the edges of brushy volcanic ridges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312364508-573QQTVDD2HUC46M1YA1/f001026.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Desert Whimsy Image code: #f0001026 Light and shadows streaming over desert buttes during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312345254-0R2CE7RKG3JTU74T9C30/de003236.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Adrift Image code: #de003236 Light and shadow plays on windswept snowdrifts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312354014-ET5QTJARWJ3TSAONX3IX/dn000549.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Bastion Image code: #dn000549 Shrinking patch of sunlight fades away from a desert butte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312356174-OZ9ACY4TYE6SP4TE9ZJ3/e000148.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Stage Left Image code: #e000148 First light catching the profile of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312356685-ZRIQL8SRMTYPR0MFOUAY/e000150.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Disappearing Act Image code: #e000150 Last light on the edge of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312351633-GOLB1EO23PPT809HTSKQ/di001958.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Fleeting Hope Image code: #di001958 Back-lit seed pods of grama grasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312358982-I1491T5JTPI6XU3LG93N/f000134.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Neighbors Chatting Image code: #f000134 Dry yucca stalks and seed pods, set against a steep desert cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312350388-4EYULHSYZF051ZPY2007/di001502.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Ready or Not Image code: #di001502 Lone creosote bush on a desert slope catching the day’s first light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312365087-1SIB1DYDHBU3VRHXK4PS/f001027.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Repose Image code: #f001027 Shaft of light piercing through a thick layer of clouds touches desert rock formations during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312361977-TDNIJXXK99A9XQJT4LEI/f000501.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Subduction Image code: #f000501 Tilted sedimentary layers in a desert formation, catching a beam of light during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312363887-JNBDBVSAC9SOTLB6KWKS/f001025.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Speed of Darkness Image code: #f001025 Shafts of light streaming over a desert landscape during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312357222-N6TC64M3WBFOU34SCQIE/f000021.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Light Island Image code: #f000021 Light crazes the rims of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312355035-XXHW7X48FO3L5PYV7JZF/e000144.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Drifting Apart Image code: #e000144 Light recedes from the slopes of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312355690-REJ9QQM17HB7UQV2LZ5S/e000146.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - The Sharp End Image code: #e000146 Last light fading from the rim of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312349187-CLTYZDMA5MSGROT3DNYD/di000724.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Half Full Image code: #di000724 Rippled patterns along the ridge line of a desert sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312352835-199S9BWHQCWSZ7UHS7IE/dk000078.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Ivories Image code: #dk000078 Light and shadow interleave over ripples in a sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678312346945-G256PA8S2XLFEHXV2SAT/dh000439.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Half Empty Image code: #dh000439 Rippled patterns on a desert sand dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726637599-U55G2E2IVWOH5T7NX10A/de002771_b.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Luminous Caress Image code: #de002771 Soft cloud shadows sweeping over the ramparts of a desolate desert butte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726637708-TFTEG6CPQXNQWHTWNFHF/dn000229.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Foreboding Image code: #dn000229 Ominous cloud shadow sweeping over desert hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726638985-C95W8AOD1H79R0EPUIDP/dn001220.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Reformation Image code: #dn001220 Rounded foothills in succession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726639273-PTYR2WDWXQ3F87U6ETX7/di001895.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Rapid Descent Image code: #di001895 Cloud shadows on the sloping walls of a desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726640709-0BSQ5ZKUOOF21UM0IHBI/f000554.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Restful Perch Image code: #f000554 Large boulder perched on the edge of a canyon rim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726640912-24CWHZTP1C2O3NZ72CWF/f000534.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Hush Now Image code: #f000534 Shaft of light illuminates the slope of a deep desert canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726642324-SSP8XE7MDOPKV5TNPAE7/f000460.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Meandering Light Image code: #f000460 Cloud shadows drifting over a canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726642538-S690ANT6TGXHT7LN82BM/e000197.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Chiaro Obscuro Image code: #e000197 Cloud shadows drift over a rugged mountainside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726644095-UF0N89UTHQTKDPNZUTAQ/di001896.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Not Today Image code: #di001896 Intersecting ridges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726644346-PB5LQQX3Y1MF3AN3MBSC/de002585_b.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Concerto in Sand and Wind Image code: #de002585 Ripples, desert plants, and animal tracks in the sand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726645596-52P29P1UQ44OCQTDYXVW/dk000072.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - The Long Journey Image code: #dk000072 Fox tracks in a field of sand dunes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1678726646038-F8VVP04PWWRZFLHGU90G/dk000074.jpg Shadowplays (Warm Tone B&W) - Softness on Softness Image code: #dk000074 Fox tracks on a sand dune. https://guytal.com/celestia-mixed-colorbw daily 0.75 2023-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478175529-T9CH4RX64ID7R7C3WRLO/dh000639.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Once Upon Image code: #dh000639 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478176689-DSAJI21XY51N9WOI90FY/dl000483.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Gravitational Waves Image code: #dl000483 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478177779-FIBHGBZAM4I65Q7F9LWS/dn000610.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Tell, Don't Show Image code: #dn000610 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1698158302261-AJQ4WJ794ED8BP79IS6P/dn001032.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Laughing Stars Image code: #dn001032 “People have stars that are not the same. For some, who travel, stars are guides. For others, they are nothing but small lights. For others, who are scientists, they are problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent. You will have stars like nobody has…” “What do you mean?” “At night, when you look at the sky, as I will be living on one of them, as I will laughing on one of them, then it will be for you as if all stars were laughing. You will have stars that can laugh!” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478180857-0FTI0393QK2G6NS38BU5/dn001110.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Look Carefully Image code: #dn001110 “It is, for me, the most beautiful and saddest landscape in the world. That’s the same landscape as the one of the previous page, but I drew it once again to show you it well. It is here where the little prince appeared on Earth, and then disappeared. Look carefully at this landscape to be sure you recognize it, if you travel one day to Africa, in the desert. And, if you manage to go through it, I beg you, don’t rush, wait a bit just underneath the star! If, then, a child comes to you, if he laughs, if he has golden hair, if he does not answer to your questions, you will guess who he is. So be nice! Do not make me so sad: write to me quick telling he came back…” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478179347-GZ2T126W00BN3ZS6O1LK/dn000769.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Asteroid B-612 Image code: #dn000769 “If I had told you those details on Asteroid B-612 and gave you its number, it’s because of grown-ups. Grown-ups like digits.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705182743260-9DKBQLHEUWBSQE5LFK0F/de003131.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Farewell for Now Image code: #de003131 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705182743466-6CFY2FEG0ZGJZ8SFN8SZ/di002050.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Cavernous Space Image code: #di002050 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1705182744383-CV9TCXHQTACJ1JKCD8XG/di002059.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Waiting for the Prince Image code: #di002059 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478177294-UDM0DQ3FYJNIM8LQV255/dn000284.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Edge of the World Image code: #dn000284 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478185592-2C0O9XO03E8NP9MY8BSJ/f000066.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Liquid Grit Image code: #f000066 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478181959-NNFGFFASX9RER0IMK477/e000184.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Apocalyptic Image code: #e000184 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478183878-MQ9QKB2ULBEBQX558CO2/f000056.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Motion and Change Image code: #f000056 "The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still, — and there was so much sky, more than at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there, under one's feet, but what one saw when one looked about was that brilliant blue world of stinging air and moving cloud. Even the mountains were mere ant-hills under it. Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!" —Willa Cather https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478185064-AKYOMBXZ275WHQT8QWJE/f000060.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Starry, Starry Night Image code: #f000060 “Now, I think I know what you tried to say to me How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free They would not listen, they're not listening still Perhaps they never will” —Don McLean https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478190329-OFJH2BPHCZ58FQLEEICW/f000999.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - This Then Image code: #f000999 "This then is life, Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions. How curious! how real! Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun." —Walt Whitman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478191072-1LKBCM9JP5R8GEPFI2WB/g000078.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Memories of Eld Image code: #g000078 “Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld! Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night! I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.” —Edgar Allan Poe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478192436-MIVKSS62AQKECKW9WAKM/g000080.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Fleeting Foam Image code: #000080 "Thus, like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a single individual lifts himself for an hour so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star and appears to all who see it as something eternal and as a happiness of their own.” —Hermann Hesse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685999732310-W70UNQHSEXTCDHCTA3NF/g000079.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Unbelievable Dignity Image code: #g000079 "The moon came out clear — I stood watching the barns — trees — ground — hills — the sky-an unbelievable dignity.” —Alfred Stieglitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478189010-C4WLH1GOGXLYJHRI6UDB/f000750.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Celestial Traveler Image code: #f000750 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478188521-B0ELODP84YO7802N5KMB/f000749.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Light Streaker Image code: #f000749 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478189583-S8SBCWYRSAW8UR5GKCK6/f000790.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Moonstone Image code: #f000790 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1746130695963-Z3EM6UEPTY9K3GMTNKM2/f000074.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Between Sand and Stars Image code: #f000074 "Here I possessed nothing in the world. I was no more than a mortal strayed between sand and stars, conscious of the single blessing of breathing. And yet I discovered myself filled with dreams." —Antoine de Saint-Exupery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478188069-KMJW5TTNCHVC7NZ9XWGR/f000723.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Let It Storm Image code: #f000723 “There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and your pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing, don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen, you are not a Greek, you are not harmonious, or the master of yourself, you are a bird in the storm. Let it storm!” —Hermann Hesse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478181198-BT82NARCTL395RA5L2ZZ/dn001111.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Flatland Image code: #dn001111 “I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows only hard and with luminous edges and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said "my universe": but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things.” —Edwin A. Abbot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478183434-G95STY4QFQQFDT2QFRKA/f000052.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Desert Dawn Image code: #f000052 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478175905-T46L3O8FCEK53YOG55OF/di001759.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Celestial Miniature Image code: #di001759 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478187428-4K5WMRH3V19EQ1EZFLFE/f000695.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Reentry Image code: #f000695 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478543540-S0WMMWHQ9A54ONFY2468/f000024.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Safe Harbor Image code: #f000024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478543694-MMX6MM904LTMFGK9EKZH/f000072.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Warp Speed in Slow Motion Image code: #f000072 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1685478544868-DJD8GYJVIEA36ODK8X96/f000073.jpg Celestia (Mixed Color/B&W) - Strong Emergence Image code: #f000073 https://guytal.com/ponderosa-pine daily 0.75 2023-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598493596-4OL3X0DL0JJ37WILW8SH/dn000320.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Marks the Spot Image code: #dn000320 The skeletons of ponderosa pines killed in a wildfire, bathed in fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598489814-CHAQ2R1F3H3KBT7YI4JL/di001771.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Ponderosa in Blue Image code: #di001771 Ponderosa pines covered in hoar frost and new snow. This image was made in 2016. These trees have since died due to climate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598489061-9EZ1QCV7OH8FO0G0UBPQ/di001628.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Vigil Image code: #di001628 The graceful snag of a ponderosa pine in a mixed pine/aspen forest, bathed in fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598498720-KDVP8UFT0G7HS1FMUY7S/f000146.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Cold Fire Image code: #f000146 Scrub oak in autumn color, growing among ponderosa pines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598496481-ZRLJL16LUWMJ80RCK8DM/dn000905.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Beautiful Skeletons Image code: #dn000905 Dead ponderosa pines, killed in a wildfire, stand bare against the golden autumn foliage of young aspen trees. This once-sustainable cycle of aspens and conifers supporting each other (young aspen sprout after a wildfire, and provide shade for conifer seeds to germinate) is now broken. Due to climate change, this forest will likely never again support conifers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598495589-0BR8VQVR82IN5UOFIIGD/dn000476.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Sheltered Refugees Image code: #dn000476 Ponderosa pines that had survived a wildfire stand tall among their dead brethren and new growth os aspen trees in golden autumn foliage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696608773488-5IK3WUZL5KL9W54WN4ZD/g000126.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Transient Verdancy Image code: #g000126 Alpine creek lined in lush vegetation flowing through a forest of ponderosa pine trees. This image hides a grim truth: the great pines are dying. This scene will become a skeleton forest within just a few more years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598480531-NGCZCRB6C10VU7HVBBT1/di001260.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Water Supply Image code: #di001260 Ponderosa pines growing in precarious perches among sandstone cliffs, fed by water from monsoon rains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598484910-CLJX44HN7MJ25VX4CMFN/di001324.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Early Winter Palette Image code: #di001324 First snow (streaking diagonally across the frame) falling on alpine lake flanked by grasses, birch trees, and ponderosa pines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598796700-U16HRHCT47V3C4YPMPUK/di001374.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Emerald Forest Image code: #di001374 Ponderosa pine forest lined in manzanita bushes and lichen covered boulders, filled with fog during an early winter storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598490279-HJIEQ0P9OU0ZEUTCD4G7/di001990.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Deep Breath Image code: #di001990 Ponderosa pine forest lined in fallen needles and lichen covered boulders, filled with fog during a spring rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598488430-IOQC3IZSWKQHN98PL7N8/di001626.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Spirit World Image code: #di001626 Ponderosa pine forest filled with fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598493390-ABMVSD0MOR38ABKYZHTM/di002032.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - A Breath of Winter Image code: #di002032 Ponderosa pines covered in hoar frost during a gentle snowfall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598487121-VK73022TNFU31FUSQ1PE/di001602.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Early Spring Image code: #di001602 Ponderosa pines covered in bright green needles in spring, covered in light snow from one of the season’s last storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598492111-O8HBBA64RVUMMZOXOB2F/di002021.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Rime Rhyme Image code: #di002021 Ponderosa pines and aspen tree covered in rime ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598502137-FYI0YQYFX3VE4SCRTLZE/f000700.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Mourning Light Image code: #f000700 New amaranth shrubs in autumn color growing along the floor of a ponderosa pine forest just a few weeks after all trees were killed by a summer wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598508995-36IBZZWC6EEMG4XDSWSO/f001062.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Final Memory Image code: #f001062 Eerie charred skeletons of ponderosa pines killed by a summer wildfire glow in the last light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598501508-3U1PUVIEBXFPADXKMYDV/f000699.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - End of Our Errors Image code: #f000699 New amaranth bushes in autumn color growing among the charred remains of dead ponderosa pines killed in a wildfire. The scene reminded me of these words by Albert Camus: “In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598482952-L0S0TCDLGUIJY9S9TD0S/di001282_c.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Oak Reclamation Image code: #di001282 Scrub oak in autumn color reclaims a mountainside formerly covered in ponderosa pines that burned in a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598481051-AWMNN1PWXZBZES5LDTJ5/di001281.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Among the Skeletons Image code: #di001281 Skeletons of large ponderosa pines killed by a wildfire, stand among scrub oaks in autumn color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598483781-KFF7Q1OKFG7Q4J5UY74F/di001283.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Impermanent Scars Image code: #di001283 Ponderosa pine skeletons stand among scrub oak in autumn color, several years after a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598503872-8M7YF19PQSJ3BOW6ZDLO/f000788.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Solemn Beauty Image code: #f000788 This deceptively peaceful scene is in fact an ecosystem collapsing. The large ponderosa pines all show signs of decline and will likely perish within a couple of years. The manzanita bushes covering the ground appear to be in autumn color, but this image was made in the peak of summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598478644-DZZAIROB2H4AJPSRO7AS/de001853.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - The Way We Were Image code: #de001853 A healthy community of aspens among ponderosa and pinyon pines is one of few now remaining. Conifers are now dying at a rapid rate throughout the Southwestern US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598495093-A337OC8QA7H02XUZ9332/dn000331.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Break in the Storm Image code: #dn000331 A shaft of sunlight pierces through thick monsoon thunderstorm clouds to illuminate a deep canyon, seen from the high slopes of a plateau covered in ponderosa pine and other trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598486507-6XDJXTBPAKCQYH0GFDAE/di001530.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Final Stand Image code: #di001530 An old recently-dead ponderosa pine, stripped of the last of its needles, remains standing to receive the season’s first snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598491766-Y11CI7ISUD78NDE9OGIB/di001993.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Light Frosting Image code: #di001993 Ponderosa pines growing against a sandstone wall, covered in hoar frost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598485357-C3RYAOB7YZRH17UKWMXA/di001475.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Winter Tremor Image code: #di001475 A gust of wind shakes off a small avalanche of snow from the branches of ponderosa pines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598500411-EK7WOTSES4MO14R4CS8H/f000574.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Forest Elegy Image code: #f000574 Blooming goldenrod and buckwheat line the floor of a ponderosa pine forest shortly after a wildfire killed all trees. This young tree, still holding on to its needles, was likely just a few years old. Older trees can live to be several hundred years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598504546-JL984AP5M3414UT0ANVS/f000793.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Unfulfilled Life Image code: #f000793 A dead young ponderosa pine, still holding onto its needles, surrounded by the skeletons of its elders after a wildfire destroyed the forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598507532-5DRIY950E2Z7EYRQ4BZR/f000902.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Among the Departed Image code: #f000902 Goldenrod flowers fill the floor of a recently burned forest of ponderosa pine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598498006-O2SZU4EVOS8CHNGEBLLM/f000145.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Afternoon Glow Image code: #f000145 Afternoon sun filters through ponderosa pines to light up scrub oak in autumn foliage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598508607-HGUNI396TVVCTL7FZ5MZ/f001061.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Not Forgotten Image code: #f001061 Fallen ponderosa pine lays among manzanita bushes. Most (likely all) of these beautiful giants will be gone from the Southwest US by the end of the century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598499644-VKLWQDVW485D5K8NWRPZ/f000147.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Vivid Memory Image code: #f000147 The view from my campsite in a beautiful ponderosa pine forest lined with scrub oaks. Each afternoon, light filtered through the big trees, adding a warm glow to the colorful autumn foliage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598497285-IX9AWPZS4M6JBJQ2X2UV/e000019.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Undefeated Image code: #e000019 Ponderosa pine holding onto a small rocky perch above a steep canyon. These trees usually grow straight up. The twisted shape and exposed roots of this tree suggest it had weather extreme conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598505907-JG9H5TR3T881HT03RYKZ/f000813.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Awaiting What May Come Image code: #f000813 Solitary ponderosa pine catching the last light of the day, standing tall on its perch on the rim of a steep canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca17a57f4e5312caee8d39d/1696598506750-QC8MOBYAKQIVPWRQ7NPX/f000815.jpg Arboreal Stories: Ponderosa Pines (Color) - Together Til the End Image code: #f000815 Twin young ponderosa pines stand vibrantly on the edge of a deep desert canyon. 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