The Natural Beauty of Arizona

I am outside the continental US this week - and have limited broadband capability.

This article has been hanging around my "Draft" folder for a long time.

I am posting it tonight, although I just posted another article.

It has taken me a long time to appreciate the beauty of dry places like Arizona.  Desert wildflowers are spectacular, though.  Just today I was on a desert hillside surrounded by bright orange and pink flowers.  Like the bottom postcard, there were mountains in the backdrop.  It was a breathtaking scene.  

Desert wildflowers are spectacular.

Very true, Marilee.

"Your" desert hillside sounds lovely. 

the first card is one of my all time favorites that just happens to be from Arizona...

Do your interests incline more toward bronco-busting or to golf, Ron?

Both are pirctured on the first card.

Peter, although I reside in Louisiana, when I think of home, I think of Wyoming.  I've spent a lot of time in Arizona, but never played golf there.  Didn't take it up till age forty.  Arizona is more arid, not as aesthetically appealing  but its a great spot to visit or explore.

Ron, I recall your comments about attending college in Wyoming; I didn't realize that Wyoming was "home". 

I have enjoyed "passing through" Arizona, but would like to visit more of the natural wonders there.

What a great collection, Peter! I've been out in that area of the country, and I agree that it has its own unique beauty.

"I've been out in that area of the country, and I agree that it has its own unique beauty."

One part of Arizona that I have not encountered is the petrified forest. 

I love the idea of the petrified tree, and have been impressed by the museum examples that I have seen.

I hear that the Park Service has a new mandate to reduce looting of artifacts from this national park.

The area was another victim of Bush anti-regulation, anti-enforcement delusions.

Those are quite accurate portrayals of some of the prettiest scenery in the western states.  In fact, that area is my old stomping ground and I loved the diversity between the high and low deserts where the terrain changes from dense pine trees to scattered saguaro cacti.  I also loved the changing colors on the rocks as much as the flowers and sky!

"Those are quite accurate portrayals of some of the prettiest scenery in the western states..."

The linen postcards are all "painted" photographs.  So, one expects that the depictions are "real".

I love the cards for the distinctive color palette, and the resemblence to a water-color painting.