IT'S COMMERCE

Lake Havasu State Park, Lake Havasu City, Arizona

The Little Black rectangle on the side of the neighbor's Class A motorhome is all show and no go.  No sun on this cloudy day equates to no solar power.

From noon to midnight, the steady sound of rain tapping on the rig's roof.

A small flock of Gambel's quail huddle under a creosote bush, happy for rain but way too cool for a bath.

It’s a thirsty place this desert. Rain is always welcome, it has to be.  A water-consuming populace keeps flooding the cities of the southwest that is water-supported by artificial means. The Colorado River and its tributaries have been corked by more than 20 dams to alter, widen, deepen and slow rivers that eventually accumulate self destructing silt.  All this to make reservoirs into artificial lakes for salinating irrigation, power for Las Vegas neon and playthings of the well-to-do. It’s commerce baby, it’s commerce.