A very crappy view from the Trona Pinnacles parking lot.
Gorgeous flowers with Trona tufa towers in the background.
Flowers, clouds, greenery and tufa that formed in ancient Lake China (present-day Searles Dry Lake) during the Tioga and Tahoe glaciations.
Close-up of tufa structure. From Glazner, Sylvester and Sharp in 'Geology Underfoot - Death Valley and Eastern California': "Tufa can form by chemical…
I think this is a primrose of some sort.
Scorpion weed. Phacelia crenulata.
Mix of flowers, clouds and tufa towers.
Tufa and flowers everywhere.
Phacelia crenulata.
Close-up of tufa structure. From Glazner, Sylvester and Sharp in 'Geology Underfoot - Death Valley and Eastern California': "Tufa can form by chemical…
Close-up of tufa structure. From Glazner, Sylvester and Sharp in 'Geology Underfoot - Death Valley and Eastern California': "Tufa can form by chemical…
Desert sand verbena.
The sun played hide and seek, but when it popped-out it sure made the scene look gorgeous.
Tufa at the first parking lot. Not shown was the armada of dune buggies on the other side of this tower.
Laura and Z take selfies while I was off making 360 photos.
Water at the bottom of Panamint Valley.
