February 4, 2026 Death Valley, California

 79 degrees and sunny.

The wild flowers are really starting now. Yellow evening primrose on Jubilee pass. Fields of sand verbena and some desert gold.

Desert gold and sand  verbena. Field of desert gold with sand verbena. 

Desert gold. 

Desert gold and sand verbena. Yellow evening primrose, phacelia, white and yellow brown eyed evening primrose, blazing star, cryptanthia, phacelia, wooly daisy.

Judy and Judy hike in Death Valley every year. We are down here to see how wet the desert floor is. Water in old tire tracks on the playa looking south.

Tire tracks on the playa with water looking north. Judy and Judy on the desert playa.

Salt formations on the desert playa. Lake Manley still  has water in it. 

We had lunch at the lovely Furnace Creek Inn. Lake Manley from above from Dante's view.

Judy and I with Lake Manley. 

January 30 to February 3 , 2026 Shoshone, Ca

 Suny, high of 75.

More mosaics.  honey for the honey date palm, a pup fish and a school of fish beads I had. Judy on the Aqua trail. Most of the water from the last storms is drying up.

Waxing gibbous moon. Full tomorrow.

Cool looking clouds. Sun pillar in sunset.

Sunset. My favorite foreground for sunsets here.  

Wild looking clouds When we started out in the RV 16 years ago we said we wanted to go where it was in the 70's all the time. Chasing the thermocline John called it. It ended up to be impossible to find 70's all year around, but we hit the  jackpot this week. 

One more mosaic for one of the medjool date palms. Michael and John are in the laundry room moving the washer for Judy. James is outside giving manly advice. Then James is doing the finishing touches and John and Michael are outside giving many advice