#Great Sand Dunes National Park

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In case you are curious this yellow shrub is a rubber rabbitbrush is also known as gray rabbitbrush, or chamisa. This perennial shrub is a member of the Aster family (Asteraceae) along with sagebrush. Rubber rabbitbrush is highly variable, with several different subspecies located throughout the western United States. There was a lot of it at the Great Sand Dunes.

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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado. Pyramid-shaped Star Dune and the jagged Crestone Peaks above it are covered in snow, with pink sunset light illuminating the high points. Photo: Patrick Myers/National Park Service (2023) :: [Robert Scott Horton]

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Metaphors are not how we define territories; they are how we travel across thresholds between categories. They are bridges across difference. Through them, we connect the abstract and the concrete, the small and the large, the live and the inanimate, the human and the nonhuman. Sometimes the metaphors are built so deeply into language we hardly notice the bodily anatomy that gives mountains foothills, rivers headwaters and mouths (curiously, at opposite ends), needles eyes, vases necks, chairs arms, and tables legs. We think through our bodies, and that includes seeing bodies elsewhere, making bodies the terms of understanding how animate and inanimate, tiny and huge objects and systems work. Both needles and storms have eyes. Metaphor is the process of relating things that are alike in some fashion, to some degree, and the literal-minded object on the grounds of those differences while the metaphorically minded understand the limits of similarity. 

['Crossing Over' by Rebecca Solnit] Paris Review

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Great Sand Dunes National Park Colorado

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Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, USA

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Hello from Great Sand Dunes National Park!

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Orko at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Sandy!

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Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. Photo by Colin Lloyd.

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Great Sand Dunes National Park | Grant Matthews

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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes up to 750 feet on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley, and an adjacent national preserve in the Sangre de Cristo Range, in south-central Colorado, The park encompasses 107,342 acres.

The park contains the tallest sand dunes in North America. Sediments from the surrounding mountains filled the valley over geologic time periods. After lakes within the valley receded, exposed sand was blown by the predominant southwest winds toward the Sangre de Cristos, eventually forming the dunefield over an estimated tens of thousands of years. Ecosystems within the mountain watershed include alpine tundra, subalpine forests, montane woodlands, and riparian zones.

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Jeremy Daniel: Traveling rules: When out and about, you notice locals pulling over on the highway to stare at something. You should probably pull over too. It’s likely something worth staring at.…… San Luis Valley, Colorado Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve :: Robert Scott Horton

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WHO KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON By Juan Ramon Jimenez

Who knows what is going on on the other side of each hour?

How many times the sunrise was there, behind a mountain!

How many times the brilliant cloud piling up far off was already a golden body full of thunder!

This rose was poison.

That sword gave life.

I was thinking of a flowery meadow at the end of a road, and found myself in the slough.

I was thinking of the greatness of what was human, and found myself in the divine.

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Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado by Lars Leber Photography 📸

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Walking Through the Desert - Great Sand Dunes, Colorado by Isaac Borrego Via Flickr: Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado United States of America

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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, USA

My Photo ~ September 24, 2022