This Week's Photo Project: The Daily Desert
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- by Mark Stephens on Mon Oct 25, 2010 - Add comment
On Friday, and hitting me like a beautiful Steinway piano falling from the sky right on my head, KC O'Connor posted a little nugget of gold on his tumblr blog.
"To understand the west," the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Wallace Stegner wrote, "you have to get over the color green." Combined with O'Connor's photo from Monument Valley - which was all red and vermillion and sand and flame and whatever hovered by a blue, cloudy sky brewing up a (tent-throwing) storm - the craft that is the O'Connor-and-Stegner tumblr post sat on my shoulder all day long, tapping its foot.
Beauty is everywhere, especially in the American west, I think Stegner is saying. The Daily Desert project is a week-long hat tip to these gents, a "thank you for reminding me, fellas." Exploring and traveling the places with open air, fascination, culture, and living things is just one little reason why I like going outside and taking my family with me.
I don't think the other reasons have words.
Enjoy the Daily Desert. Come back every day, it'll be here all week. If you need to get in the mood, here are the inaugural posts:
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