Category:Landscape
The last few days here in my corner of Texas have been gray and overcast so I went looking for an image that reminded me of summer. I found this one that, for want of a better title, I’m calling Tree on the Horizon. I took this image in England back in 2012, near where I grew up in the Marlborough Downs. I’d gone for a walk, retracing the steps I’d taken many times some 35 or more years before, […]
The perspective is deceptive and the effort it took to climb this dune in Mesquite Flat, Desert Valley, is not represented in this serene shot. A view to the north with the sun already below the horizon to my left, I wondered how this tree branch came to be here and how long it had resided on top of this dune. I can’t believe it was placed here by nature so I’ve come to think that someone else, someone more […]
“There’s a bad moon on the rise” “There’s a bad moon on the rise” rolls the lyric of the old Creedence Clearwater Revival song. No, I’m not that old but I’m not that far off either. As I write this post I’m listening to the track “Outside” by the Foo Fighters. If you saw the ‘Outside’ episode of the Sonic Highways series you’ll know the song was inspired by and recorded at Rancho de la Luna in the desert near […]
Dawn at Badwater A few wisps of cloud hung in the air to the North but to the South there was zip, nada, nothing; just a clear, blue, cloudless sky. Sunrise on the valley floor was approaching, heralded by the golden glow slowly creeping down the side of Telescope Peak and the Panamint Range off to my right. This pre-sunrise hour was silent but for the crunch of the salt underfoot and the clicking of DSLR mirrors and shutters – […]
Badwater. The name says all you need to know about the place, Badwater. According to the GPS on this image, the elevation here is -275.6 feet. That’s 275 feet below sea level! The lowest point in North America is about 10 miles behind my right shoulder, a whole 6.4 feet lower still. Being the lowest point, any water that does fall in this part of the desert runs into Death Valley. The only way out is evaporation and that’s what […]
This is the last in my series of posts on the story of the Lady Be Good. Toner’s Diary: MONDAY, April 12, 1943 No help yet, very (unreadable) cold nite. Ripslinger’s Diary: MONDAY, April 12, 1943 No entry made. Monday April 12 was the last day that Toner made an entry in his diary and it was a single sentence. According to Walker, Toner’s diary was found in the pocket of a rolled up set of flight coveralls. Walker reports […]