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So this is the pictograph to the left of the really crisp one seen in my last post. Sadly, this one has not fared well over the centuries. The left side of it has mostly been washed away by water running down the cliff face. I enhanced this one quite a bit so we could see some of the detail. When it was fresh, I think this one would have really been spectacular! It has many more elements to it than the last one I posted.
#Archeology #Desert #Canyon #RockArt #Photography #Darktable
I'm not sure who that old coot is photo bombing this cliff dwelling, but I saw him free climb down into the canyon from the mesa top. Silly old guy must have went up the wrong canyon looking for this ruin, climbed out, walked across the mesa, & then climbed down into this, the right canyon with its really cool cultural site. There's rock art decorating the canyon walls, pottery shards, 800-year-old corn cobs, & pressure flakes everywhere!
#Archeology #Ruin #Abandoned #Desert #Canyon #Darktable
Cactus flowers are the best. This is an Echinocereus or hedgehog cactus. It's an early bloomer on the Colorado Plateau.
#Cactus #Wildflower #Desert #Botany
People often think of California as nothing but desert. Let me change your mind. If that is true, than this is what the desert looks like after a rainy winter. This is a California wildflower super bloom at sunrise. Poppies & wildflowers as far as I could see covering this hills. One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
The ART: https://rhprintsco.etsy.com/listing/1556619650
#flowers #superbloom #california #photography #LandscapePhotography #nature #sunrise #ayearforart #art #fediart #mastoart #desert
A nice pictograph I came across in canyon country yesterday. Probably ~800 years old. Actually saw some green pictographs as well! Very rare, but too faded for posting here. I might see if I can enhance them when I get back to my home computer.
#Art #Archeology #Canyon #Desert
Not sure what this one is, but it's small and pretty! (Seen in the Four Corners area.)
One of my favorite wildflowers is Castilleja angustifolia (desert paintbrush). They brighten up the desert wonderfully! It is a semi-parasite plant usually robbing nutrients from grasses that it grows with. The flowers are actually the green-yellow tubes. The bright red part are bracts.
#Desert city of #Dubai #floods as heaviest #rainfall in 75 years hits #UAE
source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/dubai-floods-uae-rainfall-weather-forecast
#Rain is unusual in the UAE but occurs periodically during the cooler winter months.
#weather #climate #environment #earth #news #disaster
Desert city of Dubai floods as UAE hit by heaviest rainfall in 75 years
City records over 120mm of rain in a day, about as much as it expects in a year as rain floods highways and homesGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Who remembers the movie Vanishing Point (1971)? Yup, this is the Shell station / cafe featured in the movie's opening sequence and final sequence when the Challenger R/T slammed into the bulldozers. There's almost nothing left of the town that was here 50 years ago. "Kowalski Lives!" ... and I think I saw him hanging out with Hayduke. Lol! (Cisco, Utah. Phone photo.)
#Abandoned #Ruin #Movie #Desert
Quick edit of a very cool pictograph I saw today!
#RockArt #CanyonCountry #Utah #Desert #Canyon #Photograph
Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California (2020).
#Desert #Mountains #BlackAndWhite #Dry #Lake #Photography #Darktable
