Friday, August 24, 2007

Exploring Palm Springs: Contrasts in the Desert

Happy Friday! For my sixth installment of "Exploring Palm Springs" I decided to feature contrasts in and around Palm Springs.
Outside & Inside: Windmills & the Hotel Zoso lobby downtown

Dry & Wet: Desert Sand & The Salton "Sea" lake
Short & Tall: Patio "Ponytail" Potted Palm & Date Palm Trees

Night & Day: Downtown Mercado Plaza
Thanks for following along with this series all week, I appreciate your visit!
-Rick Rockhill

15 comments:

Mone said...

Thanks for putting up all thos pics, I really enjoyed them. CU

Anonymous said...

I'm curious if that is a stock photo of Salton Sea or if you drove all the way down there just for the blog.

Lola Starr said...

Wow. Very cool. I want to go visit my friend in Cali now.

Canadian flake said...

Loved the pics.......as always. The contrast between the desert and the sea is an amazing one. Thanks again for sharing.

snowelf said...

LOVE the trees!!

Have a great weekend, PalmSS :)

--snow

Rick Rockhill said...

Queen- Since I took Monday and Tuesday off, I drove around the desert for the past 5 days taking all sorts of photos that catch my eye. Then each day I create a story out of the photos I have not used. So for this week, I didn't take any new photos Wednesday Thursday or Friday...I just have lots of material to work with.

Ann (bunnygirl) said...

Nice wind farm! I saw lots of them in West Texas when I did a road trip to New Mexico last spring. While they're not particularly attractive, there's something hypnotic about all those blades slowly turning, and knowing that they're making light bulbs come on in some distant town.

Jimmi said...

What no "Parker" hotel of Palm Springs? LOL

Love the photo's I really need to check out Palm Springs it looks nice.

Burfica said...

Love all those pictures. I love the Wet/Dry one's.

Desert Songbird said...

I'm very familiar with the site of that windmill farm, but the Salton Sea photo was new to me. Thanks for sharing!

Anonymous said...

Cool photos! I like the contrasts.

SIMON said...

Yeah it's the contrasts in all of them
Nice one(s) Rick

captain corky said...

Great pics Rick.

Sheila said...

Nice photos! The ones of the Salton Sea caught my eye since I noticed our local arthouse movie theatre is showing "Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea."

Naomi said...

Great photos Rick, especially the one showing the sea. Palm Springs is such a lovely place. You are so lucky to live there

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