beans_again?
Joshua Tree National Park California Joshua Trees 2023 collage
Yes, it was time for a holiday dinner, Twentynine Palms style. (Sarcasm alert.) Before going over to the park, I went to Del Taco for a burrito. If you don't live in southern California, think of the place as being a competitor to Taco Bell. Tonight's self assignment: go over to the park and find the most alienesque, Star-Trek-set-shaped Joshua Tree you can find. Verdict? I failed.
The first frame at upper left is Joshua Junior. Right center frame is a Cholla and not a Joshua Tree. I had to include it because the Cholla was lit so well by the setting sun.
I forced myself to use the backup camera to make sure it still works. All the trees were shaped mostly like normal trees.
It's busy in the park owing to the holiday weekend. I love pulling up to North Entrance and finding zero cars queued up to pay the entrance fee. As usual, a car ahead of me was going twenty miles per hour below the speed limit. There was a procession of maybe eight vehicles behind the slow visitor.
We almost always have nice sunsets and today supported the rule. At every sunset there are a few dozen photographers shooting one thing or another. Some were employing tripods shooting the sunset. Every night there are photographers shooting tan models with long, blow-dried hair wearing sequined tube dresses or yoga shorts and sports bras, not that I was looking.
It seems like there are more birds in my yard than in the park. There was a lone, unknown-species bat seen in the park. When I got home, there were two bats flying over the neighbor's yard.
There is no them. There is only us.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
Journalism grade image.
Source: 7,900x5,700 pixel 16-bit TIF collage file.
Do not copy this image for any purpose.
Joshua Tree National Park California Joshua Trees 2023 collage
Yes, it was time for a holiday dinner, Twentynine Palms style. (Sarcasm alert.) Before going over to the park, I went to Del Taco for a burrito. If you don't live in southern California, think of the place as being a competitor to Taco Bell. Tonight's self assignment: go over to the park and find the most alienesque, Star-Trek-set-shaped Joshua Tree you can find. Verdict? I failed.
The first frame at upper left is Joshua Junior. Right center frame is a Cholla and not a Joshua Tree. I had to include it because the Cholla was lit so well by the setting sun.
I forced myself to use the backup camera to make sure it still works. All the trees were shaped mostly like normal trees.
It's busy in the park owing to the holiday weekend. I love pulling up to North Entrance and finding zero cars queued up to pay the entrance fee. As usual, a car ahead of me was going twenty miles per hour below the speed limit. There was a procession of maybe eight vehicles behind the slow visitor.
We almost always have nice sunsets and today supported the rule. At every sunset there are a few dozen photographers shooting one thing or another. Some were employing tripods shooting the sunset. Every night there are photographers shooting tan models with long, blow-dried hair wearing sequined tube dresses or yoga shorts and sports bras, not that I was looking.
It seems like there are more birds in my yard than in the park. There was a lone, unknown-species bat seen in the park. When I got home, there were two bats flying over the neighbor's yard.
There is no them. There is only us.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
Journalism grade image.
Source: 7,900x5,700 pixel 16-bit TIF collage file.
Do not copy this image for any purpose.