I love Death Valley. Perhaps it's the stark, wide open spaces or the vignettes of stone that illustrate the valley's turbulent ancient history. Perhaps my love for this area is best described ....
Now that the 2020 lock down has ended in Arizona, it's time for a road trip!! Like many, I felt a sense of frustration and an inability to be creatively involved with the natural world. I knew my options were limited as a number of states around me we
It was a lovely, early winter day - Thanksgiving Day - when I first visited the Lonely Dell Ranch. The land all around is desolate, scrub brush. I could sense the loneliness that the people who lived here must have felt.
In 1540, an expedition under Francisco Vázquez de Coronado on a quest to find the Seven Cities of Cibola, passed through this region naming it "El Desierto Pintado" - The Painted Desert. It's a land of petrified forests, dinosaurs fossils ...
The American desert southwest is a treasure trove of rock art. Tens of thousands of petroglyphs and pictographs have been discovered througout the region. The designs can be bold and prominently situated, or they can be tiny and concealed ...