One of my favorite photos of me ever. Taken about a dozen years ago by Sharon Leach as we hiked in the Shoshone Range, central Nevada.

There’s just something about pinyon and juniper that makes me utterly content. It might just be my favorite biome.

1. 
   Bill 2010 05 08 at 5:46:52 am

   This photo reminds me of my short 6 month stay in New Mexico on Sandia where the same ecosystem dominates the landscape.

   Arid, beautiful, inspirational, and mysterious all rolled up into one.

   Bill:www.wildramblings.com

2. 
   Larry Hogue 2010 05 08 at 5:35:43 pm

   Yup.

3. 
   neil 2010 05 09 at 3:54:30 pm

   there be sea dragons.

4. 
   Jan 2010 05 10 at 5:41:37 am

   So nice to escape for the moment into a different landscape. Thanks.

5. 
   PatO' 2010 05 10 at 3:22:50 pm

   Long live the Great Basin, the Basin & Range province, the P-&-J, big sagebrush (artemisia tridentata, love that name), jackrabbits, desert rats (including the human kind, some of them anyway) and the fact that most of its great beauty lies in the crooks and elbows and hidey holes of unremarkable inland cordilleras like the Shoshone, ranges that to I-80 and U.S. 50 tourists zooming by at 85 mph look only like the shaven backs of mangy strays . . . something we who love the Great Basin appreciate. Thanks for a most evocative photo . . .

6. 
   sylvan 2010 05 16 at 8:14:18 am

   Beautiful.  Mine is ponderosa pine - healthy ponderosa pine, I should say, which is relatively uncommon at this point.