The saddle coming back looks even better, and is a great illustration of saddle points in vector calculus. The first derivative is zero at the saddle point, but it is neither a minimum nor a maximum (in this case it is a minimum along the left-right-up-down plane and a maximum along plane perpendicular to the image).

The small plants with the banana-looking leaves In the foreground is are more Agave lechuguilla, found only in the Chihuahuan Desert.