March 26-27, 2024 Death Valley, California

 79 degrees and sunny.

Driving into Death Valley. there is so much green on everything. Pink and white sand verbenas, broad leaf gilia, booths evening primrose, mix of cryptantha, brown eyed evening primrose, and sand verbena, yellow evening primrose and white primrose.

Huge bushes of sand verbena. Sand verbena and desert gold.

Sand verbena and desert gold.

Ruins of Ashford Mill.  Lake Manley the the reason they banned boating on the lake this year. The foot prints were tearing up the playa. When the lake dries up these foot prints will be here  until the lake returns, which is not very often. 

Lake Manly with reflections of the Panamint Mountains. Water along the road.

Roadside view. Our casita at Furnace Creek Inn. My sister is treating us for our annual family Death Valley trip. They don't let you park your cars down here, so they each casita has a golf cart to ride around the resort in. 

Dinner at the Inn dining room tonight. Nice day at the Inn  pool, which is spring fed and surrounded by palm trees. It was lovely .

Happy hour at our casita. Heading toward the Inn through the garden

The beautiful garden at the Inn. 

We had another sumptuous dinner at the Inn dining room. Walked back to our casita after dinner through the garden.