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.)
"Like many urban dwellers, he fantasized of returning to the land, of building something with his own hands. 'I’m not meant for the suburbs,' Overton says. 'I need to have a big dream.'"
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Sun in clouds and haze over the San Ysidro Mountains, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; March 2024.
(blend of four exposures at ISO 64, f/16 — 1/32000s for the disc of the sun, 1/8000s for the areas around the sun, 1/400s for the edge of clouds/mountains, 1/200s for the darker parts of the mountains)
We don't have the insane levels of wildflower explosion like we did last spring, but there are still patches scattered around. From this morning's sunrise hike.
Cooking is always a real creative process. This time I decided to take the traditional Napoleon Cake recipe, added a little bit of my own imagination and got such a delicious result.
For #MountainMonday here is colorful Mount Perry, a peak in the northern Black Mountains of Death Valley National Park.
The hike to Mount Perry's summit starts at Dante's View and is pretty much "uphill both ways", with a distance of 8.5 miles. From Dante's View one first loses about 800 feet in elevation — and then has to gain it back. And the same on the way back out of course. 🤪
Rafinesquia neomexicana (Desert Chicory or Plumeseed) is an annual herb in the Asteraceae family that grows in the San Diego County desert. This small and isolated cluster is somewhat unusual, the plant has weak stems and grows taller through the support of other plants. Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; March 2024.