Last Glimpse of Sun at the End of a Cloudy Day
Organ Peaks/Desert Mountains National Monument, New Mexico--from my winter trip to the Southwest in 2020.
I was waiting, in vain, for the sun to illuminate this entire subset of mountains and took this photo (actually, photos as this is a pano combining three) in the meantime. a few minutes before, the entire foreground was brilliantly lit while the mountains were in shadow. Perhaps I'll upload that pano another time.
This is just east of Las Cruces--a location that would be high on my list of places to move to if I was ever so inclined to pull up stakes. The climate is relatively nice--i.e., it doesn't get crazy hot like in Phoenix in the summer (it sits at almost 4,000 feet above sea level), and doesn't often drop below freezing in winter. But it does snow occasionally, which is nice (more so in the mountains, of course), and in fact there was snow in patches on the ground in the city at this time. There is a large university there which ensures a more cosmopolitan atmosphere even though it's fairly small (a bit over 100,000). And if you get the urge to be in a larger city, El Paso is a 50 minute drive away.
Last Glimpse of Sun at the End of a Cloudy Day
Organ Peaks/Desert Mountains National Monument, New Mexico--from my winter trip to the Southwest in 2020.
I was waiting, in vain, for the sun to illuminate this entire subset of mountains and took this photo (actually, photos as this is a pano combining three) in the meantime. a few minutes before, the entire foreground was brilliantly lit while the mountains were in shadow. Perhaps I'll upload that pano another time.
This is just east of Las Cruces--a location that would be high on my list of places to move to if I was ever so inclined to pull up stakes. The climate is relatively nice--i.e., it doesn't get crazy hot like in Phoenix in the summer (it sits at almost 4,000 feet above sea level), and doesn't often drop below freezing in winter. But it does snow occasionally, which is nice (more so in the mountains, of course), and in fact there was snow in patches on the ground in the city at this time. There is a large university there which ensures a more cosmopolitan atmosphere even though it's fairly small (a bit over 100,000). And if you get the urge to be in a larger city, El Paso is a 50 minute drive away.