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Bernard Plossu White Sands New Mexico 1980

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photo from the highway, just outside of bears ears

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new desert! I have been to new desert!

the beautiful Sandia mountains, NM

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“oh, I live in a desert and-”

“wow that must be so terrible” “deserts are so ugly” “I would never want to live in a wasteland like that” “it’s just empty nothingness”

wishing 10,000 exploding hammers upon you

behold New Mexico

[ID 1: tall, snowcapped rocky mountains rising above a plain filled with desert scrub

ID 2: brightly colored banded cliff walls of several mesas climbing their way into mountains

ID 3: a desert prairie

ID 4: colorful hoodoos against a twilight sky

ID 5: white sand dunes as far as the eye can see

ID 6: a collection of hoodoos against a stormy sky at sunset

ID 7: a juniper tree standing with a cliff wall in the background

ID 8: several juniper trees on a rocky landscape]

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salt flats

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yaaay

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salt flats

(first photo by me, second by my friend)

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by Max Vuong

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Looking west from the Tucson Mountains Bajada across the Avra Valley to a storm over the Quinlan and Coyote mountains.

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saguaro silhouette

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I love you deserts I love you sand dunes I love you scrub brush I love you chaparrals I love you mesas I love you tumbleweeds I love you cacti I love you oranges and yellows and so many shades of brown I love you big open places I love you claustrophobic canyons I LOVE YOU DESERTS