Day 138
Sagebrush
August 12th, 2010
I'm walking across America.
That's the idea, at least. I'm walking westward from New York City for nine months or so. If everything goes according to plan, I'll be in Oregon when the clock runs out. If nothing goes according to plan, maybe I'll end up in Peru or Mongolia or Pennsylvania. You can read all about the details of my trip if you're so inclined.
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Ah, now this is more like it. Beautiful, serene. Love all the colors, textures, depth of field, and so on.
Agreed, the color transitions here are wonderful!
Love the sky especially.
Beautiful scenery! Does sagebrush really have a pungent scent?
Sagebrush has a strong pungent fragrance, especially when wet,
The only scent I love more than wet sage is the creosote of the Mojave desert after a rain. Okay, and also orange and lemon groves are heaven. And then there are pine forests.
Ok Belle, I’m going to need to smell these things because they sound so interesting! What is creosote?
Ok Belle, I’m going to need to smell these things because they sound so interesting! What is creosote?
This photo makes me so happy!!
creosote is what i know to be the substance that telephone poles and railroad ties are soaked in for preservation against the elements.
Yes! It’s nickname is “cowboy cologne” because cowboys would rub the leaves on their skin before they went into town, so they wouldn’t smell quite so offensive.
cool, nice to look at. awesome.
The only thing I ever found beautiful about this area was early winter mornings when the hoarfrost covered the sagebrush making it a winter wonderland.
This is like a painting, love it!
Sage smells wonderful when I use it for smudging in ceremony…. the Lakota use it to purify anything….
I also like the blue -green color…
LOVE this photo, and all the varied colors, textures and the scale of the foreground. Very cool!
Yes it’s really pretty and interesting how you go from green bush/trees to the sagebrush to the wheat field and around rolling over to dirt. So many textures and colors in this. Very nice Matt, thank you.
Bet you thought Washington was all trees and green didn’t you….? Till you cross the Cascades it”s ALOT of desert…but it gives you room and time to think….
Between this shot and the rock cairn I find myself looking for Carlos Casteneda to pop up from behind a rock. ..