Coyote Crossing

Accidental art

Apparently my phone’s camera uses a built-in “Instant Impressionism” filter when you zoom in under low light.

Saturday evening, Oct 9, 2010, Red Rock Canyon State Park, … (continues)

Emerging

Yesterday, in Hagen Canyon Wash.

I feel these last weeks as though a few layers of gauze have lifted from my face. There is less weight on me. I doubt myself less. I look back less to the life I once had, and spend more of myself anticipating

Hagen Canyon

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The Raven and Red Cliffs

She told me later she’d tried to climb and a piece came off in her hand. Not surprising: this is the loose, friable rock of the Ricardo Formation, lakebed sediments that accumulated from the Miocene through the Pleistocene. My map calls it

Red Rock Canyon Sunset

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Red Rock Canyon State Park

Today, about 4:15 pm. One desert as seen from … (continues)

In Hagen Canyon

It makes no sound. If it did the wind would mask it, keening through the sere canyon. Look the wrong way and your mouth fills with dust, with flecks of gravel. It is constant, the wind, and it raises whistles across the crenellated canyon walls.

No. Just… No.

Via Larry Hogue and DesertBlog:

California’s Red Rock Canyon State Park, a resource-rich and stunningly beautiful park in the El Paso Mountains of the Mojave Desert, is now threatened with becoming yet another ORV-ruined landscape. These desert