Love this abandoned gas station. Always stop to make a few photos.(Phone photo.)

#Abandoned #Ruin #Desert #Roadtrip

Where I woke up yesterday morning.

#Desert #Geology #Landscape

A nice view for after dinner coffee!

#Desert #Canyon #Utah

Cactus flowers are the best. This is an Echinocereus or hedgehog cactus. It's an early bloomer on the Colorado Plateau.

#Cactus #Wildflower #Desert #Botany

Nice little canyon I'm camped next to this evening.

#Canyon #Desert #Rock #Geology

People often think of California as nothing but desert. Let me change your mind. If that is true, than this is what the desert looks like after a rainy winter. This is a California wildflower super bloom at sunrise. Poppies & wildflowers as far as I could see covering this hills. One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

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#flowers #superbloom #california #photography #LandscapePhotography #nature #sunrise #ayearforart #art #fediart #mastoart #desert

A nice pictograph I came across in canyon country yesterday. Probably ~800 years old. Actually saw some green pictographs as well! Very rare, but too faded for posting here. I might see if I can enhance them when I get back to my home computer.

#Art #Archeology #Canyon #Desert

Not sure what this one is, but it's small and pretty! (Seen in the Four Corners area.)

#Flower #Wildflower #Desert

One of my favorite wildflowers is Castilleja angustifolia (desert paintbrush). They brighten up the desert wonderfully! It is a semi-parasite plant usually robbing nutrients from grasses that it grows with. The flowers are actually the green-yellow tubes. The bright red part are bracts.

#Wildflower #Flower #Desert

Taking today and tomorrow off from property hunting to do a little hiking and visiting some of my favorite spots. This is Sleeping Ute Mountain in the far SW corner of Colorado My campsite view for this evening. (Phone photo.)

#Camping #Mountain #Canyon #Desert

#Desert city of #Dubai #floods as heaviest #rainfall in 75 years hits #UAE

source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/dubai-floods-uae-rainfall-weather-forecast

#Rain is unusual in the UAE but occurs periodically during the cooler winter months.

#weather #climate #environment #earth #news #disaster

Who remembers the movie Vanishing Point (1971)? Yup, this is the Shell station / cafe featured in the movie's opening sequence and final sequence when the Challenger R/T slammed into the bulldozers. There's almost nothing left of the town that was here 50 years ago. "Kowalski Lives!" ... and I think I saw him hanging out with Hayduke. Lol! (Cisco, Utah. Phone photo.)

#Abandoned #Ruin #Movie #Desert

Quick edit of a very cool pictograph I saw today!

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Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California (2020).

#Desert #Mountains #BlackAndWhite #Dry #Lake #Photography #Darktable