Author Archives: Melinda Green Harvey

duck

If it looks like a duck…it might actually be a worse-for-wear duck decoy in a dead tree.

Salton Sea, California
photographed 2.10.2022

REPENT

Well, no visit to the area can be complete without a stop at Salvation Mountain, a visionary environment in the desert. The mountain itself is “made of adobe bricks, discarded tires and windows, automobile parts and thousands of gallons of paint” and is covered with paintings and symbols and Christian saying and Bible verses. On the grounds, there are several vehicles with similar decorations.

Salvation Mountain
near Niland, California
photographed 2.11.2022

dune-edge

As the day’s light crept across the sand, the patterns grew deeper before fading in the full light of morning. The ruffled edge of the dune held for seconds then was gone, never to reappear in the same place or form again.

Algodones Dunes
near Glamis, California
photographed 2.13.2022

the only other thing

The long shadows of the approaching sunset did me a solid right here, didn’t they?

Bombay Beach
Salton Sea, California

photographed 2.12.2022

under her careful gaze

I did sort of feel like someone was watching me prowl around the beach, and then I figured out why it felt that way…

Bombay Beach
Salton Sea, California
photographed 2.12.2022