As you drive along the interstate highway in New Mexico, you'll be driving on the high plains or prairie.  There are "arroyos", or small dry creek beds, everywhere.  And then there are the mesas, Spanish for "table".  These mesas are elevated  flat "tables", cliffs usually dropping to one side.  When I worked for scientists in Boulder, Colorado, I worked on "Table Mesa", which is something like saying "table table".  Redundant, but you get the point. 

My recollections of driving through New Mexico always involve  mesas.  They run throughout that state and are also found in Utah, Colorado, and Arizona.  Mesas are dry looking with pines and sage growing on them.  I think of them as very dusty, reminiscent of deserts.  This is typical arid terrain -- you can see where adobe originates. 

I made up this painting -- strictly out of my imagination, this one.  But to me these mesas are truly magical.  Dusks and sunsets are among my favorite painting subjects.  So, please, enjoy the early evening dusk over my mesas.  And I'll see you tomorrow! 

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