It certainly is ironic how a desert is at its best when it is temporarily acting like an un-desert. Do you think there is a 'moral' to this story?
It was wonderful to experience the slow rain in the desert this morning. Numerically it might have amounted to only a couple hundredths of an inch. But every drop soaked in. The desert even seemed soggy. And it smelled so good!
Of course it is easy to praise rain when there is no soil and therefore no mud. The roads are pure gravel and rock around here.
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By the way, the photograph above answers the question that a commenter recently asked about 'why I was even troubling myself over shopping for a new camera.'
Objectively, the scene was of pendulous raindrops, clinging to desert vegetation. But the camera's response to the harsh backlight turned the scene into luminous globules or water balloons.
Thus the photograph is a visual representation of the theme of this post. This can be a very satisfying hobby.
It was wonderful to experience the slow rain in the desert this morning. Numerically it might have amounted to only a couple hundredths of an inch. But every drop soaked in. The desert even seemed soggy. And it smelled so good!
Of course it is easy to praise rain when there is no soil and therefore no mud. The roads are pure gravel and rock around here.
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By the way, the photograph above answers the question that a commenter recently asked about 'why I was even troubling myself over shopping for a new camera.'
Objectively, the scene was of pendulous raindrops, clinging to desert vegetation. But the camera's response to the harsh backlight turned the scene into luminous globules or water balloons.
Thus the photograph is a visual representation of the theme of this post. This can be a very satisfying hobby.
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