Just like Sedona?

We stood amid a wastelend of mine tailings and broken machinery. A fine red powder, likely some kind of processed ore, once underground, now contaminated waste was piled high around us. Breathlessly one from our party whispered "It's just like Sedona, the red rocks."

It was easy to laugh at first, the toxic land was nothing like Sedona. When a rock tossed in the water splashed all of us recoiled in horror from the orange-red splash that followed. And yet I had brought them to this place, we could have just as easily traveled to Sedona instead; so why here?

Maybe there is something to be said for a trip into what society has left behind. Maybe there is a beauty here too. As our team stepped around the broken machines and eerily hued pools it was easy to remember why a place like Sedona is chosen to be set apart. In a collective rush for the dollar tomorrow, so easily we forget yesterday.

By:E.C.

-2012-
anatomy
sleepwalking
new chapter

-2011-
like sedona?
torn in two
blink
bridge to nowhere
door
hitting the wall
elusive 2
elusive 1
ascenders
voyage
hole
icarus

-2010-
revisited 2
revisited 1
which way?
the pit
lost mines
narrow
snowfall
chute
false floor
monolith
crack
freeze
slice
bunker
in their footsteps
resolution

-2009-
goodbyes
undercurrents
casting the bones
mountain thief
the deer hunter
strange temple
sanctuary
burial pt. 3
burial pt. 2
burial pt. 1
scarlet fever
return to hell
forsaken
the lower depths
underground lake
stretch sewer
crypt
still waters
shadow movements
meager rations
sw pt.8: geothermal + ending
sw pt.7: lost gold mines
sw pt.6: big tube caves
sw pt.5: gold!
sw pt.4: el calderon caves
sw pt.3: redondo
sw pt.2: ghosts
southwest adventure pt.1
the river
dark salvation
reflections
dreams
the underdark
night odyssey
beginnings