A remote stretch of road that cuts across the Borderlands.

Hispanic churches built in the late 1500’s and 1600’s in this Southwestern area have simple, tucked away corners called a Sanctuarium.

In southwestern evenings like this, with the dim light from the street illuminating the frozen limbs of these ancient Cottonwoods – they seem to sparkle with their old lived magical glow.

This majestic and healthy Organ Pipe Cactus, (Stenocereus thurberi) was captured in the midday light, on a cloudless hot day.

Deep in the Colorado Mountains, above Gunnison is the Ski Town of Crested Butte.

A high altitude, bright early sunrise, looking at the basin lake - on the side of North Pole Basin. The bright yellow/gold of the lake is indicative of the high altitude atmosphere (13,500 ft) and unfiltered air.

This little, adaptable and colorful plant is found throughout the eastern US and lower alpine zones where the ground temperature is not frozen (Castilleja coccinea).

I used to take evening walks with my Mother and Father through the hills and forests that surrounded our home.

A lone Saguaro cactus peaks above adobe walls in the midst of the Saguaro National Park, which lies in the extreme southwestern United States.

Thousands of shoes and bare feet have walked on, shuffled, danced…

A calm morning at the bridge that crosses Elsah Creek , at the mouth of Askew hollow, as it enters the Mississippi River.

At the end of a dirt street, stood this structure. Built in the turn of the 19th century

This image was found in the Sanctuario of a Hispanic Church that is very close to the modern border of Mexico and the US.