West of Austin - a development project and a canyon

Clouds over West Texas

Road network and land divisions

East of El Paso, Texas

Close up of previous - steep walls and defendable pinnacle

I don't know what these shapes are. Mines? Houses? Levees in the desert?

The land is all divvied up, but erosion will erase it soon enough.

West of El Paso, Texas - pock-marked lakeland.

The view was more remarkable from the plane.

Clouds are complicated like this all over the planet.

The low, darker clouds are smoke, I think.

Writing in the clouds, but I couldn't read it.

Neat parallel erosion.

near Phoenix, Arizona

A hole in the ground.

Bendable rivers.

More drainage trees.

Drainage around mountains.

Aqueduct.

Craters like ripples.

Straight drag mark scratches.

A very straight and narrow road.

Near Palm Springs, California.

Near Palm Springs - mountain at dusk.

Cool, foggy Los Angeles airport - like the first underground stop in Hell.

Inside the airport.

Over the Pacific - the Earth's shadow. We chased dawnbreak the entire trip, so it was like this for hours.

Shadows of clouds (?) across the wing.

Ice on the window.

More ice on the window.