Utah Desert Valley, Desert National Wildlife Refuge Another one of several sandstone buttes in Utah Desert Valley
Broome,Western Australia. Where the red dirt meets the the white sands and turquoise waters. Amazing place.
Despite what they're called, quiver trees don't really move or tremble in the breeze—rather, they're named for the quivers that Indigenous San people have traditionally made by hollowing out the tubular branches to hold their hunting arrows. And quiver trees aren't even trees—they're actually flowering aloe plants also known as kokerboom. Hundreds of these plants grow at the Quiver Tree Forest in southern Namibia near Keetmanshoop. Quiver trees retain water in their trunks and leaves, helping to sustain them in a baked environment of hot sun and dolerite rock.
Olympic National Park - Port Angeles, Washington The views from this place are far too many to post them all.
I sort of regard Utah as a barren wasteland, but these scenes from the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest rival anything I ever saw in New England, though after living in Michigan, I always considered New England to be a bit overrated.