January 25-31, 2016 Shoshone, California

 

Sunset last night with rushes in the fore ground. This chair is made from a suit case. We saw it at Tecopa Hot Springs Resort gallery.

Shoshone artist in residence David Ohlerking painting in downtown Shoshone.  He painted Tecopa and Death Valley Junction and now is doing Shoshone.  In a little painting project of my own I finished the porch!!

Meanwhile I am staying off my knee in my lawn chair working on my basktet. I have local medicinal mud on my knee, it is supposed to help reduce the swelling.

The basket so far.  Sunset light in Tecopa.

Sunset in Tecopa. The basket in kind of sick inside light.

John is training for a 2 week, 170 mile backpack. The B2B, or Beatty to Badwater. It follows the course of the Amargosa river into Death Valley. My knee is hosed, so I will drive some support.  Another fabulous sunset tonight.

Progress on the basket. The sunsets continue to be spectacular.

Sunset over the historic garage.  Saturday we came back down to Death Valley. There are even more flowers. It is supposed to rain Sun and Mon, so when the sun comes back out we will check out the flowers in the southern valley where we viewed them before.

On Saturday night we attended the Metabolic Studio’s IOU theatre performance of Death nValley Scotty. We saw them when they performed War of the Worlds in December in Lone Pine. This show was from the script by Ruth Woodman  written for the Death Valley Days radio show. This one aired in 1955. It was a fabulous show. The original may not have had the clever sound effects and the visuals of these guys were hilarious. These guys are really good.  John is pointing too the hole I fell in. It is now covered with diamond plate and they grated around it so it sticks up more, easier to see- at least during the day.

It amazes me how these flowers can grow in the most desolete, inhospitable places that have not even gotten rain since Oct. But there they are. They are in luck though, it has been raining all day.  Big storm, I guess it is snowing in the Sierra’s too.

The sun came out for a short while, there were cool wispy clouds. Around sunset the clouds opened up long enough for a nice sunset.  It is now raining again. Supposed to all night.

These are happy flowers.  They said earlier this week that if it rains a little more there will be a super bloom this spring. Well it is raining.