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POTD: Empty Lair

Empty Lair
Death Valley, California
2024

On our previous trip to Death Valley, I had seen a big flock of vultures, a.k.a. a wake, a kettle, or a committee of vultures in the line of brush and trees. But alas, on two visits this time around, I came up empty in regard to vultures. But this rather foreboding shot did offer some compensation for looking.

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POTD: Divining Reason

Divining Reason
Death Valley, California
2024

I found this little twig on a walk around our campsite in Death Valley one afternoon. Why it appealed to me enough to not only photograph it but to carefully pack it up and bring it all the way home to Montana is a mystery to me.

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POTD: A Conglomerate of Wishes

A Conglomerate of Wishes
Death Valley, California
2024

Years ago a friend of ours told us about wish rocks. Kind of like a four-leaf clover, a rock with a band of color running all the way around is a lucky rock that will make a wish come true for you. So over the years we’ve been keeping our eyes out for wish rocks and have amassed a sizeable collection of them. But it was a first in Death Valley when on a canyon hike I came across a big wall of conglomerate rock embedded with any number of wish rocks (at least assuming the bands of color in fact go all the way around the rocks–I obviously wasn’t able to verify that). Although it has a official name, to me that is now Lucky Canyon.

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