March 13-15, 2015 Death Valley, California

 

These are shots from the hotel we spent the night in Las Vegas in. It ended up being a time share and they tried to sell us a time share when we were brain dead from our 5 hour flight. We declined.

John and Judy(my sister) charging up the Tesla, Laurie’s electric car in Las Vegas before we headed back.  Sat and Sunday Judy, Ila and I participated in an art show at Furnace Creek Ranch down in Death Valley. The temperature at about 530p was 112 degrees. The thermometer was in the sun, but I think the official temp was 96.

 

Our booth. Judy made this wooden treadle lathe. She demonstrated her wood working and sold some of her wood worked pieces. Ila had some flame worked glass and I had my jewels.

  

Judy, Ila and Sue. Our booth is in the middle of the show. Our first day of sales was not very good, but the second day picked up enough to make it worth it. We had lots of fun.

 

There was live music in the afternoon for the art show. After the high temperatures at the show we went to the Furnace Creek Ranch pool. It is a warm spring fed pool. It was lovely. We spent the night at the ranch.  Ila and I shared a room and Judy camped out closer to our booth.

Judy and Sue in the pool. Ila only soaked her feet. We went for full immersion. Caution playground equipment may be HOT due to extreme  temperatures.

   

Sunrise Sunday morning. This is a horse at the stables at the ranch. They have horse back riding there.

 

Sunrise on the  16th hole at the Furnace Creek Golf course. It is 214 feet below sea level. They claim the ball flys farther at lower altitude. John played there on one of our trips and he said  he could play bad golf at any altitude. The highlight of his golfing there was seeing a coyote capture a coot as it flew off one of the lakes. Another shot of the art show.

 

On the way home we stopped at the south end of Death Valley to see wild flowers. Desert gold in the first one and brittle bush in the second.  The spring started looking like it was going to be a spectacular bloom. There had been enough rain at the right times, lots of plants. But there was two weeks of 80 degree weather too soon and the flowers bolted- meaning they bloomed early and are shorter and smaller than usual. They are still very pretty, just not the ‘bloom of a century ’ they first expected.

 

Back in Shoshone, California we had dinner with Suzy Sorrell’s at the Crowbar. We came back and could not find John, so we checked the Crowbar and he and Suzy had started without us.  

 

Desert 5 spot, chicory, sand verbena, desert gold, a white flower, phacelia, false dandelion, and tiny white flowers.