What a change! NW Nevada looks like the craters on the moon with some scrub growing. And, as soon as you get going east on I-80 it changes and changes and changes as does Utah. I ran out of juice on my camera battery by the time I hit Wyoming because I’d taken 150 pictures which all boil down to these.
In this never-seen-by-me stretch of Nevada, I’m trying to show perspective of the same view as I pass by it or to show the perspective of a panaramic view and how it changes all within the same line of vision from stark and craggy to lush and green.
Check out the scrub grass on each side of the road as I approach this mountain range.
And now this grassy area next to the ever-changing mountains and hills.
Then, suddenly, this craggy Monument Valley look.
Then snow-covered mountains, which, btw, I’m heading right toward!
LOVE this perspective! Looks like everyone is driving INTO the mountain!
Up close and personal snow-covered mountain!
Doesn’t it look like I’m flying? LOL
Fell in LOVE with the pinkish peak in the middle of this picture. Now, watch it change!
Pink marble look?
Going East on I-80 about 4’ish…watch what happens to the light next…
What my pink rock sits next to…then
cool shadows appear on the neighboring mountain…
making stripes across it enhancing the vegetation color changes
THEN, I cross the UTAH state line and the whole terrain CHANGES instantly like I’ve gone to another part of the world! It was crazy how it went from this last photo to huge SALT beds. These next pictures were taken in sequence from 3:59 PM Ava Specific Time (a/k/a Pacific Mountain Time) until my camera ran outta’ juice at 7:04PM…just TWO short hours!
Last vestiges of Nevada in the foreground and Utah state line behind it!
Amazing blue sky and HUGE, ENDLESS salt beds on both sides of the road!
Salt in the front and then God threw in some purple mountains for a back drop.
and more salt
on both sides of the road as far as you can see…left and right!
and then some more purple mountains miles, mind you, from the last ones!
Then let’s paint in some water on each side of the road in this massive salt invested area…some really pretty turquoise water!
Then let’s screw with everyone’s head and bring back the salt beds and throw in some really pretty green vegetation covered mountains!
And, 5 minutes later, we’ll remove the salt beds and add some ground vegetation and greener mountains..
And then let’s turn the corrner and find this HUGE lake…could it be Salt Lake?
Then a totally different lake in a totally different environment just minutes down the road from the last one!]
And yet another minute passes and look what I find now!
Then we’re back to the craggy rocky mountain look just when you thought you were in vegi heaven!
And the last shot de jour of Utah looks like the spine of a huge dinosaur!
So, that’s it for today’s adventure! No hiking…only driving…but I hope I’ve shown you a side to Nevada and Utah you’ve never seen before, or, if you have seen it, I’ve given you a whole new perspective of what you saw. After all, as an artist, the first thing they teach you about drawing is to forget everything you think you know about what you see making you focus on seeing in a fresh light.
Tomorrow is my favorite place. This will be the fourth time I’ve gone there. Flaming Gorge, Utah/Wyoming. But, this time I’m dropping back down into Utah to travel through the area south to north as it will totally give me a new experience. I find that traveling west through Zion is so much more interesting than traveling east through it. Just saying.
Happy Trails!
from a Friend 