…and now, 150 million years later, so can we.
The Morrison Formation, deposited by rivers, deltas, and shallow seas. In rain or snow it reconstitutes to dinosaur poo—you will never get the mud off your boots.
Where Dinosaurs walked
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I’m painting a lot these days…
…and so is the vast, clean desert.
The desert has been at it much longer than I have.
Marks
I bit a dried ball of piñon pitch. It tasted like cloves.
The wide horseshoes of mesa canyons, naked slopes of the Morrison formation, eroded, sleeked by rain and full of the sandy tongues left by its torrents: a water-made landscape without a drop of water in it.
The Morrison slopes were fissured, pristine—sandy corries where only animals had walked. Footprints of coyote, mice, ravens, deer.
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WORLD-BUILDING and WILDERNESS: 