There’s not much shade in the midday sun out here in the desert. You find what you can. The canopy on this abandoned gas station seems to work pretty well.
finding shade
Category: snapshots
abandoned
old and new
This place, Chiriaco Summit was founded in August 1933, the same day a new highway, US 60 opened between Indio, California and Phoenix. It started with a couple of gas pumps and a small lunch counter.
Here’s one of the original gas pumps contrasted with the modern Chevron station that’s here now.
split rock
palo verde
Palo verde along the Colorado River Aqueduct on the southern boundary of Joshua Tree.
life and death
this matters too
We’re living a troubling, dystopian piece of time right now. An ugly, growing stain is spreading across our country’s history, it’s reputation, the principles it was founded on. Where will it lead? Will we clean it up? Time will tell. But, lest we forget in all the chaos, this, the wild, matters too. Let’s not lose sight of that.
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