White Rock, New Mexico
I grew up a few miles down the road from where these pictures were taken at the White Rock Canyon overlook. These aren’t just my inspiration, these pictures are part of who I am.
I took the pictures last summer and I’m thinking it’s time to go back again soon. It’s so beautiful in northern New Mexico.
White Rock is a bit north and west of Santa Fe, up near Los Alamos, where they make the bombs.
Black Mesa as seen from the overlook (looking north):
The canyon looking south from the overlook:
The view looking east:
Posted by Lisa in: Inspiration
Omega said,
March 28, 2006 @ 2:29 am
I just love this landscape, its shapes and colours. My two favourite vacations in the US were a week driving from LA through Arizona up to the Grand Canyon, then round through Utah and Nevada to San Francisco. The second was two weeks driving from Colorado Springs down to Santa Fe and Albequerque then up to Boulder and Estes Park. In fact I fell in love with Boulder straight away, and it is on the list of places where I’d like to live.
Mary Manahan said,
March 28, 2006 @ 10:02 am
Nice photos. Have you been to Google Earth? This reminds me a little of it.
Rex Crockett said,
November 14, 2006 @ 1:11 am
Lisa,
I looked at these pictures and I just sighed. There’s something about that desert country. I remember the very first time I visted New Mexico. I parked my car, grabbed a jug of water, and just walked about a half a mile into the desert. I sat down in the shade of a shrub. The air was cool, but the sun was hot. There were all these tiny flowers. When you looked at them closely, you could see a dozen species withing inches of each other. Sitting there, very still, all these animals started coming out. Birds, cute little rodents, snakes, lizards, butteflies, and then, the stealthy pad and musky scent of Mr. Coyote, and I thought, “Wow. this place is TEEMING with life.”
I told a friend about that and compared it to the pucity of specicies in the California Sierra Nevadas, and he said, “Yeah, the desert is an oasis in disguise, but the Sierra Nevadas are a desert disguised as an oasis.” .
Lisa Call said,
November 14, 2006 @ 10:23 pm
Rex, you definitely have to slow down to appreciate the desert, but when you do it is well worth the effort.