Let's depart Death Valley- along the very desolate road to Red Rock Canyon.  Red Rock is NOT the red rock in texas that the family stayed at in the old green van when we were driving across the country together so long ago...  i woke up, and in the morning sunlight there was a crevace in the canyon wall which we were camping against- and I found a deer drinking out of the stream in the morning.  sigh.

Yes, so I depart DV for Red Rock.  Unfortunately, the Red Rock pictures are still in my camera, undeveloped.  I will add them later.
 

So, before I left the dirty, desert, and llifeless desert, I saw the joshua trees growing wild along the sides of the road.  They are, so you know, a national treasure, and noone in their right mind would pass them up.  Ufortunately, U2 was nowhere to be found in the mojave.
 
Ah ha!  I finally got organized and scanned (and developed) my pictures from red rock.  Here are a couple of the nice ones- it's really cool looking- must be more volcanic ash and sediment like the geology of  the Badlands.  It has that burnt umber color rock striated in layers with whitish spongy ash.
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