PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA – A thoroughly bad day for landscape photography. Up at 5:00 AM to drive to Palm Springs to catch an 8:00 flight to New York. All air traffic had ground to a halt because of the previous days bad weather and a heavy ground fog. Almost four hours of delay. We finally arrived in New York in the dark.
Here’s our departure gate in Palm Springs, waiting for an airplane.
Palm Springs airport
NILAND, CALIFORNIA – Salvation Mountain, near Niland. Right next door to Slab City.
Salvation Mountain
ANZA-BORREGO DESERT, CALIFORNIA – I grew up in the desert in Utah so arid places are deeply in my comfort zone. Anzo-Borrego is a serious desert – annual precipitation is less than 7 inches. During the 1982-89 drought total precipitation was zero. The Borrego Badlands is often listed as the hottest place in the United States – average summer temperatures are 107 degrees. Highs of 125 degrees have been recorded.
But this spring there has been reasonable rainfall, so the desert here is remarkably green.
Desert in bloom
SALTON SEA, CALIFORNIA – Sunset, after a long day of travel to the California desert. This is the Salton Sea
Salton Sea sunset
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