The desert always holds the unexpected.

A coal, oil, lumber train lumbering through sage and creosote.

Great blue herons wading through a still Rio Grande channel surrounded by autumn cattails and reflected in rain-muddied water.

A fall watercolor of saltgrass to sage, sage to willow, willow to cottonwood, the details of texture and color fuzzy, delicately bleeding onto the page.

Subtlety is an art form.

Great blue heron, Bosque del Apache, New Mexico, national wildlife refuge, desert oasis, desert

 

Great blue heron, Bosque del Apache, New Mexico, national wildlife refuge, desert oasis, desert, cottonwood, willow, Rio Grande River

The Road not Taken Enough