Our second set of brave female NaturalNatures enthusiasts take a trip to Red Rocks Open Space.

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Held in the Caress of the Mother: Here it is so easy to see how the Earth is our mother, it seems like such a perfect fit to lie there in the bosom of beautiful rock, folded in so snug, looking as if the woman never ends, but instead grows from the ground.

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Lying on the Beaches of the Sky: So maybe the definition of a beach usually entails ocean and sand and people playing in the water and soaking up the rays, but when you live far from ocean the big blue body that you try and lie close to is the open sky.

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Resting on the Climb: Each climb takes the climber closer to that sky full of celestial bodies, a miniature tower of Babel. With such a lofty end it is needed to take a moment and rejuvenate—lie in the sun and soak it up like it is part of you.

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Trying to Blend in on the Barren Rock Face: There are those who believe that the abominable snow man is actually a mis-translation and that it was supposed to be translated "the abominable rock man" and was actually the account of a sighting of a bipedal ape living among the high rock fields of the Himalayas- here is a beautiful female spotted in the lower altitudes of Colorado.

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The Rock from which She is Hewn: A Regular Pygmalion, in the process of being formed from the original rock.

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What Is That in the Rock?: Now I know Waldo usually likes to blend into a group of people, but our hidden naturalists blend into the nature around them.

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The Rest of the Weary: Hiking out under the brutal rays and climbing an endless wall of stone to some distant unknown destination wears on the body, here she rest and considers the rest of the climb.

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To See and Be Seen: There are moments when we best come to an understanding with the world around us when we let our own vision blend with an understanding of how the world around us must see us. This also happens to help us better understand ourselves.

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The View from Mermaid’s Cove: No it is not a cove, and yes this picture is taken in a place that has near desert condition scenery, but in such a dry place any size body of water is beautiful and catches the eyes, especially with the landlocked mermaids lying nearby. 

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Another Mirage in the Desert: A mirage is a creation of the starved mind desperate for the hope of relief and having this hope played with by the powerful rays of the sun. Truly this must be a mirage.

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Relaxing on a Swiftly Tilting Earth: The universe is a crazy thing, once all the figures are done up, making space for the speed of spinning of the earth, the speed of the Earth around the sun and the sun’s speed as it circles the center of the Milky Way and the Milky Way as it circles the center of the universe then it is clear to see that by all accounts we and our world are quickly and eternally tilting into the oblivion of the unknown, but in a moment all that can fade away under the simple pleasures of the sun’s rays.

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Understanding the Place and Belonging: A Single place may have beauty in itself, but every individual scene is part of a larger production. In this short we can see the city of Colorado Springs on the top right and Garden of the Gods on the top left with the foothills of Pikes Peak rising up to the left of the Garden.

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Hearkening to the Call of the Nymphs: There was a time when it was believed that the spirits of any beautiful place of nature were physically manifest in the form of nymphs. People have stopped believing, but give the air a listen someday and maybe you will hear them just like these two.

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Waiting to Trouble the Pools of Bethesda: Sometimes it takes great patience to wait for one deserving of a miracle, and so the patient ones are left to watch and wait.

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The Palms of the Desert: A palm tree and its leaf run deep in symbolism, but in landlocked Colorado there is not much in the way of them, so we imagine our own.

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The Angel of the Scar: Some of the striking parts of nature are the scars that man left behind. Here an angel contemplates the leftovers of open face sandstone mining, strictly speaking damage, but with its own kind of beauty.