We avoided the stores this Black Friday by heading to the hinterland for some fresh air and exercise. We walked around a dry salt lake bed near Muleshoe, Texas, and i took photos of the terrain. Honey yellow crystals (gypsum, i think?) are very plentiful in some areas about this lake, and i tried to capture them with some ground level shots.
In years when the lake has water in it, thousands of sandhill cranes can be seen here. The surface of the lake bed was white as snow with the salts that have leached out of the ground. Gasses that had formed just under the soil surface while it was still moist had buckled up the top centimeter or so of the bed into intricate folds.
Maybe one of these years it will rain again and this will all be under water and cranes.
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