Random Desert Photo Thread

[Ghost]

One more of Duquesne, Arizona. It isn't closed to the public but the few remaining residents aren't overjoyed with lookie-loos.

[yuccahead]

Here's the San Rafael valley, at the Mexican border in Arizona, looking east from a hill just west of the border ghost town of Lochiel. Forgive my newbie-ness but
I already posted this picture in another thread. This perspective accidentally made me look like a decent photographer. I have others that prove otherwise.

It's kind of interesting how the very color of the land changes right at the border. What might be the reason?

[Ghost]

I was hoping I'd get that question...because the grass is always greener...never mind, I'm joking. My guess is that the American side is "managed".

[Ghost]

I forgot to add that the difference in the grassland is probably due to what the Mexican and the American cattle are being fed on their respective ranches. Both sides in the photo are used periodically for grazing. The ranchers on the American side are always returning strays to their Mexican counterparts.

[Ghost]

This monument has to be one of the least known, most forgotten in the US. It honors the passage of Arizona's earliest European explorer, Fray Marcos de Niza. Public funds were used to construct this now politically incorrect structure on public land.


This is the plaque on the De Niza monument. In part it reads: "...The first European west of the rockies---April 12, 1539" Just 47 years after Columbus.

[yuccahead]

I had some family visiting recently, my nephew and his wife, and they wanted to hike to Delicate Arch and watch the sunrise. So, we got up at the butt crack of dawn, drove through the dark and hiked the 1 1/2 miles in the dawn's early light only to have the ol' sun beat us by a few minutes. We had the arch to ourselves for about 45 min. before the next hikers arrived.

Delicate Arch at dawn


Sitiing under the arch

[silent hunter]

Trad Wow that tree is from OZ!!

[TradClimber]

Thanks for looking sh. Glad you enjoyed.

Trad

[TradClimber]

My car camping rig I use for the desert.

Photo by TradClimber

[silent hunter]

That camping outfit is probably A rare find in california Trad. Here is Apache Juntion its just another everyday mobile house.