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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
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
taller than a mountain
The thing is that Texans sort of do like to claim tumbleweeds as our own, even as we complain about them. When I have to mow over them, I will always think of them as “those bastards” because their tough, woody stalks seem to be stronger than the rotating blade of a riding lawn mower. But there’s a sort of perverse pride in them – in their quantity and size. So spotting this tumbleweed, the most gigantic one I’d ever seen, in California? It’s taking me a while to process my emotions…
Mecca, California
photographed 2.13.2022
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