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March 2nd 2009

Published: March 6th 2009

Lying on a gray foam mat on a patch of desert pavement in a wide wash in the Owlshead Mountains. Flashes of chemical light had preceded the dawn. Bomb blasts glided across the salt pan. Only a mountain range separated me and the war games being had, while the scorpions and tarantulas fought over space in the bottom of my left boot. I was sleeping and not at the same time. Machine gun dreams. S... Read Full Entry

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7th March 2009

eric in pdx
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great photos steve!
miss you, man. thanks for posting the beautiful photos - you make me miss the desert in a big way. i loved death valley the two times i went through. see you when you come up to see pdx! eric

7th March 2009

manroot
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geobotanical daydream
fucking awsome!! wish i was there with you my friend, lets trade for a week or so?

10th March 2009

Rowbear
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Desert solitaire
Awesome photos--why should you restrain yourself from snapping thousands more? Is that a watermelon?--and is it the oddest thing you've found there?

13th March 2009

Dell Phavero
Stephen Dell-Phavero

comments make me fuzzy all over
Not sure who comment #2 is by, but hey I'll risk a trade for a couple weeks. As for you other two, I know who you are and where you live. Watch out. I will be back soon. Sorry to make you miss the desert, Eric, but it and a swamp-cooled government apartment are here, when ever you feel like visiting. Bob, AKA sasquatch, that my friend, is nonetheless than a Coyote Melon, a native species, in fact, also known as Cucurbita palmata. Not the strangest thing I have found...that would be something far different that comes deep in the depths of my mind when faced only with my thoughts, the starkness and silence of the desert, and a torpid history... I will not elaborate here, but wair for yet another post. I quit, Steve

16th March 2009

babao
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nice pics
my eyes hurt with beauty of it. yours must be falling out of your head.

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