Saturday, April 26, 2025

Approaching Big Bend National Park


Stan and I left El Paso at about 10 AM this morning on our way to Big Bend National Park.  It was about a 7 hour drive, if you include stopping for lunch in Marfa, Texas.  This view is from quite a distance away from the park itself, but man, oh man, what a stunning landscape.  In this case, mountains on mountains.


This is a view of two mountains and some cacti shortly after we entered the park itself.  You can see how rugged these mountains are if you look closely. I wonder it these are not volcanic plugs, as Shiprock is, but I can't be sure.  I will ask a ranger tomorrow.  It can be seen as a desolate landscaper at times but it is really beautiful in so many ways.  Just a different beauty than you would expect, but it grows on you.



 

2 comments:

Joan Edwards said...

Beautiful! Enjoy. Joan

Betsey said...

The foreground of the first photo looks so desolate but the background looks majestic! I like the second photo with the cacti, blue sky and white clouds. Betsey