Joshua Tree and Sunrise

I am posting this from a motel in Ridgecrest, California, where we are recuperating after seven days in Death Valley National Park, Ash Meadows National Wildlife Preserve, and Trona Pinnacles. My sudden disappearance from Ipernity was due to the fact that we left on a three week trip a day earlier than planned. Thus, too, I'll not be on the Internet much for another two weeks, during which time we plan on visiting Joshua Tree National Park, Anza-Borrego State Park, and on the way home, Zion and Bryce Canyons in Utah and perhaps some of the other Utah parks. This photo was taken at the beginning of our trip - after driving through the night we arrived in Beatty, Nevada, just outside Death Valley, at sunrise.