When I originally made my plans to visit Phoenix I didn't know that there was going to be a Birthday Bash for one of my oldest and dearest friends, Eric Gordon, in Los Angeles on the 3rd of January. It was a stroke of good fortune that it happened to be the most convenient day for me to be there. After driving all the way to Arizona, what was another six and a half hours? The drive due west from Phoenix continues through the mountainous desert. One wonders how any town can exist in the bone dry environment, but there are a number of them. I stopped for lunch in Palm Springs, meeting a colleague from the Conservatory there. I had been in PS before. It's a beautiful place though I hear it is rather dull. It has been warming up with daytime temps now in the 70's. How lovely it was to walk about in shirtsleeves, basking in the warm sun. I snapped this quick pic of some street or other, adorned with the ubiquitous palms.
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