Oasis of torture

During our unendurable car trip, the drivers pulled over and stopped at this oasis. It was full of boys swimming. Not only could we not swim, we were just standing around in the heat. Doesn't it look enticing? I dreamed of icebergs between hazy, sweaty naps/passing out from heat.


This post's theme word: maslin, "a shiny yellowish alloy of copper resembling brass."

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."