Prose by Gregory McNamee
Photos by Stephen Strom
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To this, honoring the theme of this issue of Terrain.org, we might add another qualification: The desert proclaims itself openly. There is no hiding its essential nature, unlike in my home state of Virginia, a place of greens so intense and various that you suspect that this is why computer monitors are made to show millions of colors, where the sheerest cliff and gentlest plain alike are carpeted in vegetation. No, the desert is all signal, with very little noise to distract us from it. There, in its multiple shades of brown, white, black, and gray, there is no clutter. Anything out of place is easily noticed, from an illegal immigrant’s discarded knapsack to a developer’s strip mall. Winter overlook of Greenwater Valley from Dante's View, Death Valley, California |
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