There is a Loner within me, one that when encountering open spaces such as this wants to trek off into the distance (it would risk a cliché to include "by horseback" except that I'd first need to learn how to ride), find a remote, secluded bit of territory never-before-visited by humans, and camp out for a long period. Doing what? Reading, taking siestas, meditating and relishing the incredible starry nights of the high desert.
I doubt many such virginal places exist any longer, and I inevitably feel a tinge of sadness when I consider that reality. The presence of a fence piercing and dividing such an otherwise boundless scene drives home the reality. I wonder though: is the barbed wire intended to preserve what is left, or to keep the mountains from somehow seeking their own escape?
Fenced Mountain Frontier, Arizona, #7619
(c)2009 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.
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Details: January 6, 2007; Canon 20D; f/16 @ 1/400 sec; ±0 EV; ISO 400; 44mm.
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