Back to the Edge

Given interesting trips and other distractions, the Edge series has languished.

To re-start it, I took a little ride over three days last week, down to Borego Springs, back up the west side of the Salton Sea and out through Joshua Tree. The plan was to truck camp but it turned out a little warm for that so it was low rent motels and early starts.

The heat influenced things! It was 119 degrees Fahrenheit  at Coachella as I drove by on Tuesday at about 11:00 am!

A series of images...not originally conceived as a story-line for the trip, but coming out that way anyway...

 

 

Anyone who has gone photo hunting in the  desert knows the feeling here. It's the coolest moment of the day. No one else is around. You step out of the motel door and the light is just a promise...

 

 

 

 

The light and the frame on this feels a little John Ford, but here there be dragons...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annoyed by what the ubiquitous black plastic bag has done to the world we live in, perhaps my view of one of the old marinas at Salton City was a bit jaded, but I don't think so...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And did I mention it was HOT...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back up in Joshua Tree the rocks look on...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the image to make it bigger, look at it on the biggest screen you can manage...Thanks for sticking around long enough to check out the photos.