In my previous visits to Badwater, I didn't pay much attention on the drive from Furnace Creek (where most people stay). It just seemed like another long, straight road common to Death Valley.

On this visit, though, I started focusing on the scenery along the way, and the images in this post were all taken to the right of the road in the image above.  And in the previous  post were taken from the left side, the last two images were taken from the right side of the road!

I started out taking this picture while standing in a wash next to the road.  Too bad there were no clouds to liven up the image a bit!

Just a little bit further, I took another shot of  this range of hills:

Then I zoomed in and took this shot:

I took a bunch of other shots of these hills until it finally dawned on me that I should put them all together!  So I took a series of hand-held images and created this composite panorama of these "foothills" situated alongside the road on the way to Badwater:

This composite is pretty cool as it is made from 9 separate images and contains an immense amount of detail.  If I printed it out it would be little more than 6 feet long and about 12 inches high.  Of course, you can't see that detail here but please click on it to get a better feel for these "little" hills on the East side of Death Valley!

April has not been a great month ... I'm happy to see it go!  Many little things went wrong, and it ended on a sour note ...  I did one of those things that are never suppose to happen ... I broke my Number 1 Computer ... in the parlance of the techies ... I "bricked" it!  It is dead and at this point can do nothing more than hold down the floor in my office.  It  will soon go back to its maker in New Jersey.  

Fortunately, I have a backup machine and I am pretty religious about backing up all my data so I don't believe anything was lost but the time needed to get the backup machine running smoothly.  Have you backed up your important pieces of data?  I hope so ....

Long live April!

Adam