Desert Textures
Desert Textures
As you can imagine, the desert is full of textures. From rocks, to plants, and everything in between.
The other day we walked out of the RV and headed north. As I’ve said before, wandering in the desert is one of our favorite things, and you never know what you’ll find. We wandered farther north than we have before, so we came across some new areas. One cool thing about the desert, is the variety in terrain. We find flat ground, small washes, and big ravines. Walking along the bottom of a wash, is always a good way to find something interesting. Which is how we came across this bright yellow rock.
It was a thin layer on top of the rock that was lining the wash in this spot.
This was a new thing for us, I’ve never seen rock like this around here before. It was so bright, and so pretty. And so texturey.
I took the second image and blended it with this one, just something grungy and organic.
A line of it ran through this rock with some quartz.
We left the pretty yellow stone, and I saw this unique saguaro. It had split somehow on this arm, but the texture inside was pretty amazing.
And this sagauro seems like it just fainted dead away and draped itself on this tree.
And a mushroom, in the desert. This was a first for me.
After a couple of miles we started looping back towards the house. We found another small wash, and started following it. There was a big saguaro that had fallen over and in it’s roots was this turquoise and quartz rock. It was a pretty big rock, so I got photos instead of bring it back. We did however find a smaller one that’s a keeper. Al is pretty good about carrying home big rocks, if they are deemed cool enough enough to keep.
The wash opened up, and I found this dead tree all twisted and gnarly.
It was a nice 4 mile wander, and I’m thrilled to have some great texture photos to use in photoshop with other images.
And I have to share this rainbow we had on Saturday evening. I wish I had a wide angle that could have captured the whole thing. So pretty.
Happy Monday friends.
Hello, wonderful series on Textures. I love the colors, the gnarly tree and the cactus. The rainbow is beautiful. Happy Monday, enjoy your new week!
it#s beautiful to discover such things… the sagauro looks a little like plants of the mama :O)
Those are some interesting photos. I bet you can do a lot with them using your creativity! It goes to show you how beautiful simple things can be to photograph!
Happy Monday, Mary. You greet me with haunting and lively photos of the unseen.
Beautiful — but then, everything you see becomes a thing of beauty through your eyes and talent.
What a walk of wonder!
that does sounds like a nice wander. makes me dream of the desert and it’s treasures.
loved seeing the colorful rocks and your other textured finds.
Wow these are such incredibly interesting discoveries! To find actual turquoise “in the wild” is a dream. The closeup of the yellow rock with splits struck me as being similar to an impressionist painting of a fall tree with yellow leaves and dark branches. And the cactus’s “wound” looks like a smile! :D
“Texturey” is right, Mary! Beautiful…:)JP