Photos from Todo Santos, Part 2

By Jack Brummet, N.A. Travel Ed.

Cardon cactus

 Ceramic figures at the Museum of Faces

 Keelin on the beach

 Cactus garden

 Cactus garden

 Cactus garden

 panorama of the desert near our house

street painting of a whale in La Paz

Maureen in a great taco stand that cooks two things: shrimp and fish tacos (great!)

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Poem: Voluptas by James Weldon Johnson

Excavated by Jack Brummet, Poetry Ed.

To chase a never-reached mirage
Across the hot, white sand,
And choke and die, while gazing on
Its green and watered strand.

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The cactus garden at Joshua Tree National Park

by Jack Brummet

While it is called a garden, nothing was planted, or taken out of this garden.  Like many places the desert, the soil, and relative availability of water determines these odd gatherings of plants.  This cactus garden has several different kinds of cactus, but mainly cholla.  And they are nasty if you brush up against one--I did once years ago in the Sonoran desert.

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