This is a beautiful column in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. The odd colors are created by the lighting in the cave.
This is a detail photo of a collection of features near the floor of Carlsbad Caverns. It was taken with a flash.
Here is a stalagmite with some interesting popcorn-like features at Carlsbad Caverns. Again, it was taken with a flash.
This is a detail photo of some features on the wall of the cave. Again, it was taken with a flash.
This is the view into an "alcove" in Carlsbad Caverns. The color is due to the lighting in the cave.
This is also at Carlsbad Caverns. A large part of the park is outdoors in the desert. This is near the entrance of a desert canyon.
This is taken in a juniper "forest" in Carlsbad Caverns after a nice hike up ???? canyon. It is the stalk of an otherwise dead cholla. Normally, this isn't visible since its surrounded by normal plant tissue and sharp annoying spines. Note the "screaming face" near the top of the plant.
This is a photo of Guadalupe Peak (the bump on the right) at Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas. This park lies just south of Carlsbad Caverns. Guadalupe Peak is the highest point in Texas at 8749 feet. There is a pleasant (well probably not in July) eight mile round trip hike to the peak. What looks like snow on the left side of the photo is in fact snow. It doesn't snow that often there, but there was several feet of snow in some places along the trail.
This photo is taken from the top of Guadalupe Peak looking approximately northwest. It is probably hard to see in the scanned image, but Sierra Blanca (a peak in New Mexico about 120 miles away) is visible on the horizon in the extreme upper right corner. It is the tiny whitish spot just below and to the left of the cloud.
This is also taken from the top of Guadalupe Peak. It looks approximately southeast on El Capitan which is the southern edge of the Guadalupe range. The mountain (viewed from below) is a pretty famous landmark.