Does anyone know what kind of spider this is? It’s tiny—with legs incuded, it’s the size of a fingernail (but I think it’s a baby). #SouthernCalifornia#desert#arachnids
So this is the pictograph to the left of the really crisp one seen in my last post. Sadly, this one has not fared well over the centuries. The left side of it has mostly been washed away by water running down the cliff face. I enhanced this one quite a bit so we could see some of the detail. When it was fresh, I think this one would have really been spectacular! It has many more elements to it than the last one I posted.
Heard about the #RegionalRiffs hashtag @Banur started via @HailsandAles's post about it. I'm currently stuck in Arizona, so my pick for here is Gatecreeper. An insanely heavy and great death metal act outta Phoenix - right in my backyard.
This is their album Deserted (get it? From the desert?) Anyway.
I'm not sure who that old coot is photo bombing this cliff dwelling, but I saw him free climb down into the canyon from the mesa top. Silly old guy must have went up the wrong canyon looking for this ruin, climbed out, walked across the mesa, & then climbed down into this, the right canyon with its really cool cultural site. There's rock art decorating the canyon walls, pottery shards, 800-year-old corn cobs, & pressure flakes everywhere!
What's this boring looking thing? It's anything but boring, although its mission is like watching grass grow until it's hit by an ultrahigh energy cosmic ray! This is an element of the Telescope Array Cosmic Observatory west of Delta, Utah. It's one of 507 scintillator detectors that are spread across ~270^2 miles. Since 2008, 30 ultra-high-energy cosmic particles have been detected. Thus far, there's no explanation for their extreme energy or their origin.
A close crop of an earlier post from a couple of weeks ago. Also, since I'm on my home computer, I slightly enhanced it using a parametric mask in Darktable to reveal a bit more detail.
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.)
With some of the best museums in the Middle East, a mixture of traditional and ultra-modern living, and stunning #desert landscapes, #Qatar is also one of the fastest growing #tourist destinations in the world. Have you been there? #vacationhttps://backpackandsnorkel.com/Qatar/
Carrizo Plain trip a week and a half ago. Spent the night so I could be there for storm clouds at dawn. Soda Lake and starlings. Being there for the nice light was worth miles and miles of liquid-snot mud on the road in.