wind-carved

Rolling hills and craters and wind-carved spires tall

Mike Ragogna: Chatting With Cobra Starship's Ryland Blackinton, Plus Jimmy Jam and Jason Reeves, and The Real Tuesday Weld Video Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011

Rolling hills and craters and wind-carved spires tall

Mike Ragogna: Chatting With Cobra Starship's Ryland Blackinton, Plus Jimmy Jam and Jason Reeves, and The Real Tuesday Weld Video Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011

Perhaps they come from the nearby foothills where there is farming, and lean farming for what it is worth — old grandmothers with their gums and grips, worn leather-skinned old men with wind-carved scowls, unmemorable young men in their grandfathers 'greatcoats too big for their shivering and thin forms.

Excerpt from Pompeii ii 2010

In the middle of the day, in the middle of the peninsula, we rolled through a long valley landscaped with millions of huge wind-carved boulders, some as big as houses, giant cardon cacti (the saguaro's larger cousins), and tall skinny boojum plants with orange blooms on top - described as upside-down carrots.

The Baja Highway from top to bottom 2007

In the middle of the day, in the middle of the peninsula, we rolled through a long valley landscaped with millions of huge wind-carved boulders, some as big as houses, giant cardon cacti (the saguaro's larger cousins), and tall skinny boojum plants with orange blooms on top - described as upside-down carrots.

The Baja Highway from top to bottom 2007

Nevertheless, the screens swept me back into a familiar world: of dramatic, wind-carved hillsides terraced with fields of rice, alfalfa, and cannabis, and sectioned by poplar trees on raised banks; and of courtyarded compounds where, in the intense heat and dust of late spring in southern Afghanistan, people sleep on roofs under magnificent starscapes.

Hunting the Taliban in Las Vegas 2006

The rock we had singled out to navigate by (black and wind-carved) was just ahead.

Hunting Scared 2006

The rock we had singled out to navigate by (black and wind-carved) was just ahead.

Hunting Scared 2006

Judd figures he can kiss goodbye the 900 jobs and millions in tax revenue promised by a coal mine that Andalex Resources Corp., a Dutch company, had planned for the sandstone bluffs and wind-carved buttes of the Kaiparowits Plateau.

Monument In The Red Rock 2008

Nowhere is the region's clash of visions and values greater than in the debate over the wilderness areas of Utah: the soaring arches and wind-carved buttes just outside Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks, red-rock canyons rising like cathedrals, ancient cliff dwellings of the Anasazi Indians.

In Utah, The New West Trumps The Old 2008