Summer Sky (2013)

The wide open high grassland of Chavez County New Mexico is the setting for "Summer Sky". Each year the summer monsoon season brings continuous thunderstorm activity from July through September to the mile high prairie of East Central New Mexico. 2014 has brought over twenty inches of rain in less than six weeks and helped to alleviate a four year drought. The area is dominated by shallow and medium depth gas and oil production established in the boom of the early 80's. Today only a hand full of shallow vertical wells have been drilled here over the past few years. Photo © copyright by Robert D. Flaherty.