Gathering of Nations 2010
This gentleman is a celebrant in period regalia from the Gathering of Nations PowWow held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 22 – 24, 2010. The Gathering of Nations is the world’s largest PowWow. To see more photos like this, visit the Blue Mesa Photography Facebook page. While you are there, become a fan!
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San Lorenzo Canyon
San Lorenzo Canyon is a seldom used recreation area located just north of Socorro, New Mexico. It consists of one long canyon that is fed by a number of smaller canyons. visitors can expect to see slot canyons, caves, hoodoos, and other geographical oddities. This visit was timed to coincide with peak foliage season for the few cottonwoods and oaks that grow on the floor of the main canyon.
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Sandhill Cranes at Bosque del Apache
Thousands of sandhill cranes are among the huge assortment of waterfowl who return each winter to the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge in Southern New Mexico.
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The Tularosa Basin lies between the Sacramento, San Andres and Oscura mountain ranges in south central New Mexico, on the southern tip of the Colorado Plateau and the northern edge of the Chihuahuan Desert. Major attractions include the mountain communities of Cloudcroft, Carrizozo, and Ruidoso, and such natural wonders as White Sands National Monument and the Lincoln National Forest. To see more of White Sands National Monument, CLICK HERE
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Palo Duro Canyon State Park is located about 26 miles south of Amarillo, Texas. The Palo Duro is the second longest canyon feature in the United States. It’s orange and yellow tinged cliffs and lush green meadows are a welcome and startling sight after a long journey across the flat and generally featureless plains of West Texas. Few now know that the great American painter Georgia O’Keefe once was a great admirer and frequent visitor to the site while teaching art at the nearby college town of Canyon, Texas. O’Keefe once very aptly described Palo Duro’s wild and rugged beauty thus: ”It is a burning, seething cauldron, filled with dramatic light and color.” To see more of Palo Duro Canyon, CLICK HERE.
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Adobe Wall, Ft. Union
The storied Santa Fe Trail is the stuff of myth and legend, the telling of which could fill a thousand-foot bookshelf. Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickock, Annie Oakley, “Uncle” Dick Wootton, and Bat Masterson rode up and down this trail and into the history of dime novels and moving pictures and the popular consciousness of a nation. Along the way, they, and many a soldier, fur trapper, trader, and roustabout passed within sight of these walls at Fort Union, on the vast plains of northern New Mexico, near the Cimarron Valley and the Sangre de Cristos Mountains. To see more Fort Union photos, CLICK HERE.
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Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
The Grand Circle is the designation for a highway loop that takes drivers on a grand tour of national parklands, cliff dwellings and other relics of the ancients, and the spectacular scenery that makes the landscape of the american southwest so immediately identifiable. The route runs for approximately 1200 miles and encompasses Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Monument Valley Tribal Park and the Grand Canyon. Slight detours can take travelers to Sedona, the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest, Canyon de Chelly and Hovenweep national monuments in Arizona, and and Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas.
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Canyonlands and Dead Horse Point
The Grand Circle is the designation for a highway loop that takes drivers on a grand tour of national parklands, cliff dwellings and other relics of the ancients, and the spectacular scenery that makes the landscape of the american southwest so immediately identifiable. The route runs for approximately 1200 miles and encompasses Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Monument Valley Tribal Park and the Grand Canyon. Slight detours can take travelers to Sedona, the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest, Canyon de Chelly and Hovenweep national monuments in Arizona, and and Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas.
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Arches National Park
The Grand Circle is the designation for a highway loop that takes drivers on a grand tour of national parklands, cliff dwellings and other relics of the ancients, and the spectacular scenery that makes the landscape of the american southwest so immediately identifiable. The route runs for approximately 1200 miles and encompasses Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Monument Valley Tribal Park and the Grand Canyon. Slight detours can take travelers to Sedona, the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest, Canyon de Chelly and Hovenweep national monuments in Arizona, and and Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas.
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The Ghost Ranch was a favorite hangout of leading American artists and writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. It was made famous by Georgia O’Keefe, whose painting entitled “Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock and Little Hills” now serves as the icon for the Ghost Ranch and undoubtedly inspired the placement of this skull atop a shaman’s pole near one of the conference centers that was in use by Lynn V. Andrews . To see more Ghost Ranch Photos, go here!
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