For no particular reason I woke up at 5:00 this morning, but that turned out to be a very good thing as the moon had set and the stars were blazing across the desert sky. I had the park all to myself as I roamed around snapping photos of the Joshua trees against the stars, then took a few more pictures as the sun was rising. Later, while hiking through one of the washes in the park I heard a pack of coyotes howling nearby, but couldn’t find them when I went to investigate and had to instead settle for sitting on a rock outcropping and enjoying the stillness. After a bit more hiking through a canyon near Cottonwood Oasis it was getting really warm, and with shade being a scarce commodity I decided to head home for a nap, which I shall now take.
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?" — David Mitchell