The Desert in December - 1 / 3

In late December, with family visiting, we drove all around the Mojave  desert area. In three days, we saw three completely different views of "the desert" in december. For fun (and because i can only share so many pictures of piles of trimmings...) I'm sharing some pictures from all three days.

The first visit was out near Victorville. If you wonder why we visited Victorville, it's because we went to go look at a parking lot:

specifically, one of the storage facilities of recalled diesel Volkswagens

there are also some airplanes:

mostly in storage, and hard to see. You can't really get closer

As the pictures show, it was a blue sky, light overcast kind of day. It was about 70 degrees F.

the desert - brown, blue, mountains, and joshua trees

Once we were done looking at parking lots, we visited a bottle tree farm. One of those random, only the Western US, middle of nowhere-ish kind of places.

it was actually very cool!

the clear desert sun light really made everything sparkle!

one person did a lot of this work - both the bottles and the metal sculptures

Perhaps this video gives a little better idea of how cool and eerie this place is:

the legacy of aerospace being a major area employer

december in the desert!