Monthly Archives: March 2022

the common sense of morning

Remember the other day when I mentioned that getting up early to make photos was always worth it?

I’ll just leave this right here….

near Calipatria, California
photographed 2.12.2022

53 (or it was just that kind of place)

The speed limit might have been 35 mph. Or it might have been 53. Or it might not have even mattered. It was just that kind of place.

Niland, California
photographed 2.11.2022

several sides of the same coin

Just after sundown, the lights of the geothermal plant glow. And somehow, the surface of the water also glows.

One star lights up the sky and is mirrored by a light on the distant shoreline.

And the dark-blue arc of the approaching night finds its balance with the darkening ground.

Salton Sea, California
photographed 2.11.2022

Skeleton

Yes, I was very happy when our photography group leader not only drove us past this skeleton of an agriculture building, but then pulled off the road so we could photograph it. And my thanks to everyone else in the group who may not have been quite as giddy as I was, but were too polite to tell me they rather be anyplace else.

near Calipatria, California
photographed 2.12.2022

a necklace of black beads

A conservative estimate of the number of birds perched on these power lines would be “all the birds in the entire world.”

near Calipatria, California
photographed 2.11.2022