Desert Car 

For some reason, dreams come easy in the desert. Maybe the expansive vistas and the uninterrupted silence free the mind from constraining thought. The desert is interesting in that it is so quiet and desolate but yet leaves so much past and ruins for curiosity. There are many places where you see remains of buildings, rusting cans, or automobiles and even some cactus that had been cut open for water. It makes somebody wonder what caused those circumstances and what ultimately happened. Clumps of cacti decorate the rusted hulk of a late 1940s era Plymouth sedan Riddled with dozens of bullet holes. "That's Bonnie and Clyde's car…" I thought to myself. Plants and animals representative of the great deserts are found here in this ecological melting pot. I noticed that the sandy soil here was dappled with yellow blooming tufts of flowers, identified as Chinchweed. This scented plant is common on sandy flats. I was surprised to see so many plants in bloom in November. In the desert, no matter what month you visit, there is always something in bloom, but the yellow, white and green colors that filled the roadside were more than I had expected. That, and Bonnie and Clydes automobile…