Colorado Desert Pictures
(Photos Between Delta, CO and Grand Junction, CO in Western Colorado - April 2002)
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I visited the desert in western Colorado this week.
Between the towns of Grand Junction and Delta is a fifty mile stretch of desert
with all sorts of roads leading to nowhere. |
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Special thanks to my car for
getting all dusty and dirty with me. |
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Lots of beautiful cactuses out there,
but no, this time I didn't kiss any of them. ;) |
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I took this ordinary desertscape shot when... |
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... I noticed how beautiful the sky was above! So standing in the same spot,
I tilted my camera up. |
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I love these small mountain ridges that display different
layers of colors. The Painted Desert in Arizona
has the very best for that kind of stuff. |
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By the way, the desert is spelled one "S". Click
here to see some "desserts". :) |
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That rock, located just north of Delta,
is called the Devil's Thumb. Those mountains are the very southwestern edge of the Grand Mesa Range. |
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The parched ground! :P |
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Earlier that morning, I had enjoyed a fantastic
visit to Colorado National Monument.
Yet exploring the hot and dry desert was really special. |
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Oh! Here's a shot of a golf course that
Matt and I played at. It was so nice to play on a desert golf course! :) |
