the image with the metal ruler is of some dirt tubes which are fairly common...but unexplained as yet...insects of some kind....my theory about the cleaned circles is that these were cleaned so the military could pitch round tents when they were training here during world war two,,,the green plant looks sort of like creosote bush but i do not think it is...all the creosote bushes were brown...
after about twelve days of very strong wind i finally was able to pack up the truck and vacate the desert...setting up the shower tent was out of the question....
i was displaced by a person in a travel trailer who is just one of many new folks who are trying to "take over" this area...i suspect the "syndicate" is responsible...hoping to eventually put in a development probably...that is to say ruin the environment...i think these people are afraid that i might photograph an endangered or threatened species which would make developing this place more difficult...a few weeks ago two guys opened fire with some large caliber rifles to discourage me from going to a BLM camping area...BLM and Imperial county have pretty much turned over this beautiful desert to a criminal element which has no desire to preserve anything...i have been told that most people do not come to this area due to aggressive criminal activity...which being a few miles from the U.S./Mexico border is not surprising...otherwise the weather is very nice and the desert lovely
one thing about being inside the truck for several days due to the strong winds is that i got a chance to view some good YouTube....such as ms. "little chinese everywhere' yan's latest offering "Buddhism Land" (18:26) which details the art that is made by this community of Buddhist ...also a good presentation is "The return of musk oxen" by Vasili Sarana...very well done...and "The surprising life of Toulouse Latrec..the painter of Parisian nightlife" was good and "How the pursuit of Pleasure can ruin our lives; Aldous Huxley and Modern Slavery"...it must be remembered that mr huxley thought jazz music was crap...i watched "the life of PI" which the blurb on the package said it was the next "Avatar"...not even close...a hyena might kick a tigers ass from what i have seen of these two species...i watched "R.I.P.D." with jeff bridges as the dead dude who is batteling "dead-o's"...it is pretty funny..also "Lucy" with scarlet johansson was good story about a person who manages to use 100% of their brain but the end result is...well everywhere...
i heard some comments about my describing Judaism as a "real estate cult"...i picked up a great book called "Historical Atlas of the Ancient World" for a buck which shows the regions now known as Israel and Palestine as well as the surrounding countries...these lands changed hands many times over the centuries...i was surprised to learn that Israel and Judea are two different countries...also since the term "anti-semitic" gets used a lot these days i copied this definition of what are semites= speakers of semitic languages which originated in Arabia and western Mesopotamia...including Akkadians, Amorites, Canaanites, Hebrews, Aramaeans, Chaldeans, Phoenicians, Sabeans and Arabs"...yep thats a big group...
well as a person who has had to take many classes about safety including fire-fighting i will remind people that there is what is known as the "fire triangle" which is needed for there to be a fire...namely FUEL...OXYGEN...HEAT... i would recommend that the people who live around an abundance of fuel think about reducing the fuel before the other two elements come together and the fuel will reduce itself...
"You have power over your mind-not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." Marcus Aurelius
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