Windswept

This is White Sands National Park. In December of 2021, I spent three days traversing untracked white dunes in disbelief that I was nearly alone. The dunes are not actually sand, but gypsum, and cover almost 300 square miles in Southern New Mexico. With white gypsum crunching under my footsteps, I repeatedly had to remind myself that I wasn’t walking on snow.

What’s great about White Sands is that you can pretty much walk wherever you want to and aren’t confined to a trail. I found this freedom liberating. The landscape seemed to go on forever and I just kept walking. While I explored the vast expanses of the park, I became mesmerized by the balance and harmony of the patterns I found. In the dunes, it was as if gravity and the wind had called a truce, leaving beautiful shapes, curves and lines that only nature could create. 

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