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sun/burn
You know how your dermatologist is always talking about using sunscreen?
This right here is why. I mean, just look at their skin – some of it looks like it melted, some of has some awful growths*, and none it of looks healthy.
East Jesus, California
photographed 2.11.2022
*Completely unrelated: what does leprosy look like?
well, this is frightening
There is one thing I strongly believe and that is if the word “escape” is written on the way in to a sketchy building, there is very little chance of your making an actual escape.
So be careful….
Calipatria, California
photographed 2.13.2022
pollination
Just one more thing I learned by looking at the ground….until 2022, I didn’t even know that pollination services were a thing.
Calipatria, California
photographed 2.12.2022
reaching for the sky just to surrender
For reasons that I don’t understand, Leonard Cohen’s music became my personal soundtrack while I was on the dunes. I don’t mean that I was listening to the music through my phone. I mean that bits of his lyrics would appear in my brain from time to time, unbidden yet still welcome.
In this case, I heard the line “reaching for the sky just to surrender.” This yucca will lose its battle with the movement of the sand, as have the ones that were there before and the ones that will come after. All of them reach for the sky for a time before their inevitable acquiesce. It’s the way of things.
White Sands National Park, New Mexico
photographed 12.13.2025
it intersects past the end
The long shadows and the clouds above seem destined to meet, somewhere on the other side of the dunes, on the far side of the mountains, maybe in Mimbres or Silver City or even Upham. Or maybe they decide to stay there, on an alkali flat in the middle of the gypsum dunes…
White Sands National Park, New Mexico
photographed 12.14.2025
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