Saturday, May 30, 2009

America the Beautiful

Besides being the BEST place to live despite hard times, it's amazing to me how the landscape can change in 10 minutes of driving! You can sometimes see forever with soft velvety hills (below left), then be in the midst of treed hills and just 15 minutes later (below right).








The landscape can take your breath away at times! The southwest has wonderful rock formations that hold archaelogical truths and rich history of our past (recent compared to other continents). Just imagine moving west 100 years ago through some of this rugged country, without the superhighways!! I remember family trips to visit relatives, and we went through every town and berg along the way!! My kids will never know, and their kids probably won't believe how 'primitive' travel was as recent as the 50's!!

2 comments:

Mike said...

That's what I like about the West!

Snakeye said...

Good pictures Ma! I liked those aspects about the West too... though it was a lot of driving from Cannon to see that stuff.