Photographs
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Beautiful sunsets don't always come in brilliant and
showy red and orange colors. This photograph taken
just after sunset evokes a serene and peaceful
feeling for me with some orange on the horizon and
dark blue-gray clouds and wispy white cirrus clouds
in the center, bracketed by darkening blue sky above
and the shadowed foothills below. It's a photo I just
want to keep looking at, so I put it on my computer
as my desktop background.
An arch in Canyonlands National Park's Needles
District called Druid Arch. I'm not aware of any source that tells the origin of the name, but I'm guessing that it reminded someone vaguely of Stonehenge, with the top looking like it's sitting
on three pillars, even if they look like they're three
sheets to the wind. To reach it, hike to the end of
Elephant Canyon and then up a short, steep climb
out of the canyon to the bench above, where you
get this view.
This looks like a creek but it's actually a section of the
drainage ditch along the levee on the east side of the
Rio Grande north of Alameda Road, in Los Ranchos de
Albuquerque on a winter afternoon. It looks like there
may be a submerged tree limb underwater that is
catching debris that floats down from the right. I like the
brilliant blue sky and other colors reflected in the water
and the graceful curve of the jam of debris.
Photograph of a small ruin in Kane Gulch, a tributary
of Grand Gulch in the Grand Gulch Primitive Area of
southeast Utah. I like the sweeping curve of the ledge
leading out to it. It could be just a granary, but there's
a remnant of a wall in front of it, and my guess is it
could have been a defensive structure for a family or
a very small band. Its position along a narrowing ledge
that ran out shortly behind the ruin would have made it
very easy to defend from behind the wall, which was probably higher and came out farther. Any attackers
would have been extremely vulnerable with no cover.
Corona Arch
An arch west of Moab, Utah on the drive south along
UT 279 on the west side of the Colorado River. The
arch is 140 ft wide and 105 ft high. Bowtie Arch, a
pothole arch, stands about 100 ft to the left. The size
of the arch an be appreciated by noticing the human
figure standing between two juniper trees just down
from the far left side of the arch. Sometimes called
Little Rainbow Bridge because of its shape. it's about
a 1.5 mile hike over slickrock to get to it.
