LARRY BLACKWOOD

No Place to Meet Your Enemy
Cochise Stronghold, Arizona
2020

No place to meet your enemy that is if you’re the U.S. Army trying to roust the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache out of their homeland in the Dragoon Mountains in Arizona. Cochise grew up there and retreated to this rocky canyon that now bears his name a number of times to successfully avoid capture. Particularly given the military capability that existed in those days, this looks like a very defensible position to me.

Death Spiral
Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona
2020

Bare Tree #36
Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona
2020

An alligator juniper tree spreading it’s cheeks, so to speak.

Bare Tree #35
Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona
2020

A very graceful looking dead tree.

Bare Tree #34
Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona
2020

When out walking in the woods, did you ever get the feeling that someone or something is watching you?

Lean on Me
Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona
2020

What not to do in this time of social distancing!

Bare Tree #33
Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona
2020

A burned tree shaped to match all the balanced rocks at Chiricahua.

Bare Tree #32
Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona
2020

Bare Tree #31
Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona
2020

Bare Tree #30
Chiricahua National Monument
2020