Salton Sea Decay

Long abandoned buildings in the desolation of the Salton Sea:

Hanging in Holtville

 At the Rancho Silverado in Holtville, CA with Pepe and Sue.

Here creating the family's parade float... 

...with help from the Snowbirds

Elvira, the lady of the house, makes the best crepé paper flowers.

Sights in the garden:

Holtville

Parade Day

Elvira

Pepe and Sue

A parade watcher

 and the fiesta at the Rancho after the parade

 Pepe and Sue with Al and Moonlight

More from the Slabs 2014-15

Here are a few more portraits of friends from Slab City

 Karen, the Balloon Lady at the Talent Show

The "Hansen" brothers. New at the Slabs this year. 

Good music. Good energy. Good people.

John

Steve, the rock-stacker, the tower-builder...

...and his camp. He's not the only guy out in the desert with a kayak.

 Henry

John, man of many talents...

...and beautiful rig.

There's always lots of music at the Slabs:

at the Range

at campfires. Here at Sandi's

In the Niland Tomato Festival parade. Here the fumes

have gotten to Henry the Fiddler. He just slumped right over.

photo by pepeandsue

Oh, good! Henry's back up!

photo by pepeandsue

Slab City owned the parade!

Zion to Slab City

One last shot of Zion. A beautiful sunrise just before I left for Las Vegas...

...where I stayed at my friends Joel and Deann's house. Here's

a shot of Joel's new band. Joel's the one on the left.

Here's an urban cowboy.

Scrambled around at Calico Basin while my friends Merritt (pictured) 

and Nikki did some serious rock climbing.

Merritt's job is to shoot huge plumes of flame from

the antennae of this giant praying mantis... in time to

a high-powered rock soundtrack. (Only in Vegas!!!)

Looking toward Freemont Street on a regular Monday night.

I spent several days in Joshua Tree (town & park) and played at

Pappy & Harriet's open mic in Pioneer Town as well as the

open mic at the JT Salloon in Joshua Tree. Here are two shots

of the other-worldly landscape in the park.

Then on to Slab City. The train runs right along the 111.

Slab City, where there's a party at The Range every Saturday

night. Friends Tyler Gregory and Dolphin are onstage. 

Here Tyler's performing "Tear the Still House Down."

He had the place rocking hard.

Salvation Mountain is still standing.

And best of all, friends:

Barry,

Jared,

Peter,

Radio Mike,

and Randall.

And this small miracle: a hole in one at 

Gopher Flats golf course, eighth hole.