March 8-13, 2017 Death Valley, California

I am still using the blogger software that comes with the blog since my windows open writer quit working. It does not place the photos as well, so the blog looks different.

Ila and I packed up and headed to Death Valley for the Art Show. We drove down Fri and set up our booth. We met with our friend Jeff from Fort Collins. He was camped in the campground. Here he is the bathing beauty at the spring fed pool at Furnace Creek Ranch.

Sunset colors from the ranch. Jeff treated us to dinner at  the ranch. Pizza and drinks.

Here is our booth. The show was Sat and Sun all day. It was almost 100 degrees each day. Ila makes beaded jewelry, I have my baskets and glass jewels. My sister Judy has some wood work. She usually comes, but did not this year so we took her wares. The show is just off the main road by the entrance to the ranch so we had lots of people come through. We did ok, but it was a lot of work for what we earned. It was fun to talk to the people and the other artists.  I only sold three small baskets. But a bit of jewelry.

Sunset over Death Valley. My sister treated us to dinner at Furnace Creek Inn. Here is Ila in the dining room. It was full by the time we got our dinner.

More sunset from the Inn. Ila and I at our table before dinner.

 It was sunny, blue skies and close to 100 degrees both days.  On the way home we went by Death Valley Junction and saw this marker in celebration of Marta Becket. She was a famous desert ballerina. She just recently passed away.

Saturday during the show I made this basket out of an abalone shell. It came out real cute. I didn’t get much time to admire it, it sold on Sunday.  Back in Shoshone this is the new boardwalk at the new habitat for the endangered Amargosa voles.

The trimmed palms look like a 60’s haircut. The refugium for the endangered Amargosa pupfish is adjacent to the vole habitat. and the  new  boardwalk  goes into the pupfish habitat.  It is a very nice nature walk, you don’t see much water in the desert and where it is is lovely.

Some desert gold are blooming in Shoshone.