Death Valley, California Texture and Form

 

I wouldn't say that trees, green grass, flowers, water, and snow-capped mountains are a distraction but there is a purity of form and texture to the landscape in Death Valley, California. This photo has no plants that I can see and nothing else to cover the bones of the earth. I grew up around the clay hills of northeastern Arizona often referred to as the Painted Desert and these hills look just about the same except for the immensity of their space. Everything you see is evidence of past rainfalls but it hardly ever rains and I can hardly imagine how much time it took to create this eroded landscape.