Been through the desert

Foto.Feola.Friday for February 2, 2024

On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound
I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

Foto.Feola.Friday

Finally made some progress getting my negatives organized and started scanning them with the Pentax K-3 III Mononchrome. Here are a few from 1983 at The National Training Center, Ft. Irwin, California. NTC is a training ground in the Mojave Desert larger than the state of Rhode Island. I did ride across the desert — over and over and over — but it was in a Jeep with no windshield…

This is the visitor’s center; units painted their colors here to show they’d finished training.

Sp.4 Feola hard at work in the Mojave.

Next on Perfecting Equilibrium

Sunday February 4th-The Reader: I was there when the whole world changed in a moment.