Big Bend Ranch State Park
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Big Bend Ranch State Park
Strawberry Pitaya blooming in the Big Bend Ranch State Park during a rare rainy day.
Spring in 2013 was an excellent year for wildflowers. I just found this photo on an old backup hard drive that I had thought dead, but was saving for other purposes. Today I cleaned the contacts with alcohol and Viola! It's back!
Taken near the Grassy Banks campsites in the Big Bend Ranch State park.
One of the first desert wildflowers I saw first in the Big Bend Ranch State Park.
Facing southwestward. At the same cliffside pullout from which the Part 11 cuestita photo was taken. See the top of that description for the exact location.
This is one of a pair of last photos I took on the Old Ore Road trek. After that I had to attend to getting my tour group up to the main park road before the light completely faded.
In a recent post in another series, I mentioned my fascination with backlit photos. Here the backlit object is the Chisos Mountains at sunset.
This slide was invested with unearthly emerald-green zones that I have not attempted to alter or remove. It's how the film reacted to the dying light of day's end. And if there is any place on the planet where inexplicable and supernatural things can occur, this is it. In my old age I include such things in my vocabulary.
The rugged landscape of the foreground may already be wrapped in twilit gloom, but the meanders of its creek are still visible, as are the steeply northwest-dipping strata of the Upper Cretaceous Aguja and Javelina Formations. Beyond them stretches the low ground of the Tornillo Basin.
I have tried my best to identify the high points of the dark mass that sits under the surreal purplish-pink stratocumulus clouds. I think the loftiest bump at center is Toll Mountain, the almost squared-off cliff to its right is Casa Grande, and the prominence farther to the right is Pulliam Peak. At least this seems to be the sequence when I run up the Google Earth track all the way from the pullout to the Chisos Range 15 mi / 24 km distant.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this set, visit my my Integrative Natural History of Old Ore Road album.
One of the first cacti to bloom in West Texas.
This is a classic view of The Window in the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park
I've wanted to get a photo of the whole circle of 9 VWs at Bus Jack, a discontinued Airbnb and maybe an art installation in the Chihuahuan Desert near Big Bend in Terlingua Ranch. However, this is the best I could presently do, not having a drone.
Part of Bus Jack's Airbnb/"Art Installaion" in Terlingua Ranch
