Actually TOUCH the New Mexico country, and you will never be the same again.

"Actually TOUCH the country, and you will never be the same again. I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I ever had. It certainly changed me forever. It was New Mexico that liberated me from the present era of civilization, the great era of material and mechanical development. The moment I saw the brilliant, proud morning shine high over the desert, something stood still in my soul, and I started to attend. I had no permanent feeling of religion till I came to New Mexico."

D.H. Lawrence,
English novelist

Photos: (Top) Chimney Rock, Ghost Ranch, NM; (Middle) Ancient Pueblo in Chaco Canyon, NM; (Bottom) Cliffs and Cottonwood trees at Ghost Ranch, NM. All three photos were taken May 23 - 25, 2015

There is an eagle-like royalty in the fierce desert morning.

"There was a certain magnificence in the high-up day of the desert, a certain eagle-like royalty. In the magnificent fierce morning of the desert one sprang awake. Never is the light more pure and overweening than there, arching with a royalty almost cruel over the hollow, uptilted world."

D.H.Lawrence 

Photos: (Top) Sunrise at Mesa Arch; (Middle) Pinyon Pine and La Sal Mountains; (Bottom) Looking out over the landscape from Island in the Sky. All three photos were taken at Canyonlands National Park, UT, November 30 - December 1, 2014

When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot!

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

D.H. Lawrence   

Photo: Sunset over Long's Peak, with the moon just visible above; Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; November 9, 2013

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The supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

"For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive."

D.H. Lawrence

Photo: Pasqueflower blooming beneath Horsetooth Rock; Horsetooth Mountain Park, Larimer County, CO; April 8, 2013

Love is More Than Personal

 

"Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and setting of the sun, and cut off from the magical connection of the solstice and equinox.  This is what is wrong with us.  We are bleeding at the roots, because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars, and love is a grinning mockery, because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the tree of Life, and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table."

D.H. Lawrence

Photo: Mountain Bog Birch flaming in last light in Glacier Basin, with the peaks of the Mummy Range looming in the distance, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, September 23, 2011