Badlands of New Mexico

The image I have chosen is a dear one to me, and looking at it you may not see any people and it may look foreign to most of you, but this is a place that is oh so familiar to me. This is an image of the Zuni Mountains looking out from El Malpais National Monument. The Zuni Mountains are set in the high desert of New Mexico close to where my parents were raised and my siblings were born. It is also where I have lived out some of my greatest childhood memories.
The Zunis are incredible mountains surrounded by molten lava poured from ancient volcanoes millions of years ago. The lava spreads out all around these mountains creating an amazing black, jagged base for the mountains. As kids this was a place for exploring, especially kids from California who had never seen actual lava, it was something else! There are also ice caves hidden throughout theses mountains which are incredible. They consist of tiny narrows which bring you to a crawling position most of the time until you come to a large opening in the cave, and you see enormous icicles hanging from the roof of the cave and every inch is covered in an ice that glows of greens and blues, it is really amazing!