Fractured view of the desert

This was my perception of driving towards the desert in the heat of midday: fractured. Scrubby. Dreaming of water (or file corruption) accounts for the totally inaccurate blue tinge.


This post's theme word: mamelon, "a rounded eminence or hillock."

Monkeys

They stopped to hand-feed monkeys.


This post's theme word: taaffeite, "a mauve gemstone similar to spinel" (see previous post).