Brilliant.
Found a web page mentioning the mammoth Cornudas site, and did find a couple pics of Cornudas and one of Alamo (not good though). A stunning pic of Cornudas here as well as the Guadalupe Mountains:
http://www.oteromesa.org/
Steve_C...apra_Photos.htm
I'm having a hard time envisioning the Cornudas area from this pic though. Such a high view. The reds give an appearance of less desert vegetation than there is?
The promise of the story got my son through tonight's reading practice. I thought he'd like it. Told him I'd a secret to tell him about mammoths then read the story to him.
Of the photos on the site you went to, the one with the picture of the flowering cactus at the bottom is closest to the way things actually look on the ground most of the time, but usually without the flowers. The photo of Cerro Alto gives you a good idea of how all these island mountains look from a distance of several miles. The pic of the pronghorn antelope is what the plains around the mountains look like except that more often than not the grass between the chollas and yuccas is a little greener--the otero mesa, at least the part around Alamo and Cornudas, gets more rain than the real desert to the south. I read somewhere that the Mescalero Apache, whose homeland this is, consider that the pronghorn is the only animal that has no soul. If true, I'd guess that it's because they noticed that the antelope were not like other animals at all, but something of a different nature altogether like the wind, that can never be caught or killed.
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