Something about the desert
Everything that I imagined the desert would be like was wrong.
It did not feel that hot. The sun was a normal size for the sun (heh). I didn’t sweat as much as expected.
In high desert regions the air feels light, the air isn’t humid… Evenings and mornings are cool, sometimes cold… but a different cold. Everything is much different than the city thousands of miles away.
Every morning felt calm. Without the usual cars and trucks driving past, without the usual obsctructions… trees, houses, power lines… it was calmer. One could notice the moon slowly moving or the sun slowly rising as the temperature quickly rose. One of the most amazing things about the mornings in the desert is that they are so welcoming. Cool breezes with huge wide open skies with rapidly changing colors. All of this happens quickly. From countless stars and desert cold to orange and heat.
It is hard to recall much of what happens at night out in the desert… The cool air is such a relief!
It is easier to think at night.
The heat of the day offers some very interesting opportunities for happiness. For example… Rainbows in the desert.
The rainbow followed a rainstorm which followed a dust storm. An amazing thing about rain in the desert is that it smells so strong. I always figured the “smell” of rain came from grass. Nope! There was no grass in the desert location I was and yet the smell of rain was extremely powerful. The happiness? The rain cools everything off and you get to enjoy the double rainbow comfortably.