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I had wanted to do a time series from Virginia that showed how the landscape changed as we drove. Sadly, I had the settings wrong on the camera till Oklahoma. I then started a series of following behind the Subaru as we drove west:
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The east coast is covered in trees while the West is mostly desert. The transition from one eco system to the other happens largely as one drives across Oklahoma. Arkansas had been as green as Virginia, and the first few miles of Oklahoma had been the same. But as we crossed the state, the trees thinned out. By the time we crossed Texas and entered New Mexico, we were into real desert country:
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Texas, of course, had been flat, but after we’d been driving through New Mexico for about an hour, the first hills began to appear:
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After this, we parked the Volvo at a gas station and we rearranged the items in the cars so we could all go together to Madrid, New Mexico. This was a bit of a sidetrack, as we had to go north on 17, away from 40, but we all wanted to see the town where Laura had met so many talented artists during the summer of 2007 and, of course, she was looking forward to getting back there and seeing her old friends.
I’ve some photos of Madrid that I’ll post separately.