lodge

carizzo plain, ca. march 2012.

beautiful sunset. whispy clouds all across the sky to highlight the changing colors.

tanker

carrizo plain, ca. april 2012.

mining tools in the desert

 

joshua tree national park. november 2010. 

a rusty circle of corrugated metal, holding nothing but air and the rocky ground; a heavy gear gone still in the dry desert air.

a pair of us

barstow, ca. november, 2010.

framing a far off place

barstow, ca. november, 2010.

window in the wall

ryan ranch. 2010.

prickly little things

joshua tree. 2010.

i think we counted a total of seven kinds of cactus, at least that we could differentiate. not included here is beaver tail, which is a rather plain grey-green flat wrinkly leafed cactus that apparently blooms beautiful pink flowers in the spring and has microscopic splinters for spines (ouch!).

these guys were all spikes and hidden watery flesh, just waiting for the next rain.