Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Landscapes and Seascapes

Every year I visit my parents and family in Arizona.  I love the desert landscapes and their spare beauty.  These shots are from the Mesa and Sedona areas, perfect for the “Landscapes and Seascapes” challenge.

If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert.  You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise.  The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
~Anne Lamott

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough. 
~Mary Austin

Why I write (and blog and photograph)

It is one of the greatest feelings known to humans, the feeling of being the person to whom they come for food and drink and company. This is what the writer has to offer.

~Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life