We not only traveled through deserts and canyons -- we had a chance to drive though mountain scenery as well. This stand of Aspen drew our attention while on the road through the Chuska Mountains in Northeastern Arizona, near the New Mexico border. I made this image through the front windshield of a moving car. The diagonal ranks of Aspen trunks, broken only by a single evergreen tree, repeat their vertical thrusts. The trunks are framed on top by a repetitive diagonal of leafy clusters, and on the bottom by the diagonal flow of shrubs.