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A scenic view while traveling up the Telephone Canyon Trail on the Old Ore Road at Big Bend National Park, Texas. This was a very nice trail that continued a couple miles up into the Dead Horse Mountains. We walked the trail until we came to an old very well built rock/mortar dam and dry pond. I don't know the history but people went to a lot of effort to build the dam. I'm sure it worked nicely in rainy weather. The trail continued and connected to another very long trail but it was getting late and we saw what we wanted. Maybe a trail for the future. Also, as we walked up this trail it crossed a drainage with a lot of ground cover and it was over 70 degrees so I was watching out for rattlesnakes at every step!!! Thank goodness we didn't see any but they had to be there!!!
:-)

That whole entire large portion of New Mexico hasn't looked right ever since the fearsome lava spread over every thing. I get absolutely bloodcurdling nightmares about my yard or my city (Minneapolis!) ending up this way, after so many people including me have so toiled to try to get our surroundings to look nice.

I'm quicktempered so I'd have a hard time not getting violently angry @ both God & Jesus if lavaflow eruptions ever laid waste to my home, because my home is very precious to me!

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A view from the Valley of Fires Nature Trail in the Valley of Fires Recreation Area on the Carrizozo Malpais west of Carrizozo, New Mexico, on May 26th, 2009. The lava flowed circa 3000 BCE - 500 CE.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
F802.V35 Valley of Fires Recreation Area (N.M.)—Pictorial works.
QE527.2.U6 Volcanic fields—United States—Pictorial works.
QE462.B3 Basalt—Pictorial works.
QK142 Desert plants—Southwestern States—Pictorial works.
F802.L7 Lincoln County (N.M.)—Pictorial works.