My brother in law lives in Kansas, and he said it’s flat there as well. The hills they do have there are small and clumped together…as in “rolling hills.”
I live in the flatlands now and really miss the mountainous terrain where I used to live in the River Valley, but the sky is the same. Blue with rippling clouds. I love your pictures.
The Rio Grande River Valley that runs sort of central, north to south in NM. It is high desert surrounding the river, but Roswell drops to about 3600 ft elevation and is very flat, entering the grasslands of Texas. It is a dull landscape, except in town, where there are a lot of trees and a lot more grass than the River Valley, being in these grasslands. Of course, there are a few rivers that aid the beauty of the area, but they are damned in places and have dwindled, leaving Roswell no longer with a river. This landscape review brought to you by Jill’s Travel Guide to exotic places.
I think your “damned” should be “dammed” but honestly it still makes some sense.
I wish we were up that high. We’re at 1100 or so in my city. The highest close-by mountain (Mt. Davis) is at the southern border of PA, and it’s less than Roswell’s elevation, 3200-ish feet. To get any higher I’d have to go slightly further south, to Spruce Knob. But that’s in West Virginia and that could be a whole other nation, practically.
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Your hilly landscape is so different from our Oklahoma flatlands.
My brother in law lives in Kansas, and he said it’s flat there as well. The hills they do have there are small and clumped together…as in “rolling hills.”
I live in the flatlands now and really miss the mountainous terrain where I used to live in the River Valley, but the sky is the same. Blue with rippling clouds. I love your pictures.
Sorry for the obtuse question, but which River Valley? In Oregon?
Glad you like the photos. I caught the sky on a good day.
The Rio Grande River Valley that runs sort of central, north to south in NM. It is high desert surrounding the river, but Roswell drops to about 3600 ft elevation and is very flat, entering the grasslands of Texas. It is a dull landscape, except in town, where there are a lot of trees and a lot more grass than the River Valley, being in these grasslands. Of course, there are a few rivers that aid the beauty of the area, but they are damned in places and have dwindled, leaving Roswell no longer with a river. This landscape review brought to you by Jill’s Travel Guide to exotic places.
I think your “damned” should be “dammed” but honestly it still makes some sense.
I wish we were up that high. We’re at 1100 or so in my city. The highest close-by mountain (Mt. Davis) is at the southern border of PA, and it’s less than Roswell’s elevation, 3200-ish feet. To get any higher I’d have to go slightly further south, to Spruce Knob. But that’s in West Virginia and that could be a whole other nation, practically.
Anyways, elevation talk interests me.