The Landscape, barren of green

[digitS']

There is again a chance of snow but in many places in the US, no - it's not likely.

I am thinking about another landscape this morning, the desert.
Plants!! Not necessarily.

What I am aware of in a desert landscape is partly why I never seem to have trouble spelling the word with the additional "s" in dessert. There is an economy, a spare landscape.

Rock formations can be lovely with accents and shadows with great verticals of such detail that nothing is needed in the foreground. It's not likely that I'm using the terms a photographer or another artist might use ...

Not to take anything away from regions where there seem to be little else for miles and miles except more, miles and miles but I like details. Big skies are magnificent but can give both interesting relief and threats, peace and violence. And, vast sameness ...

Do you like the desert? Landscapes bare or seemingly bare, of plants ...

Steve

 

[Ridgerunner]

Different people like different climates, that's just the way it is. I've driven across some of our desert southwest, glad I did. I did not find it that boring. But I realized as I drove that no bugs were splashing against the windshield. If an area is too dry to support bugs I really would not want to live there.

 

[flowerbug]

i'm ok with visiting such places, but i don't want to live there. lack of rain and green things isn't normal to me. i understand them well though as i have studied ecosystems quite a bit... and i do admire the plants and diversity of them and how the various wild life species manage to survive as well.

i used to collect cactuses...

 

[flowerbug]

Different people like different climates, that's just the way it is. I've driven across some of our desert southwest, glad I did. I did not find it that boring. But I realized as I drove that no bugs were splashing against the windshield. If an area is too dry to support bugs I really would not want to live there.

i drove several times this past summer for a longer distance, it was a pretty wet and rainy summer here. this is the midwest and not a dry climate. hardly any bugs on the car/windshield... things are not good with Momma Nature IMO...