Mystery Valley Sunset, Ed Mell, 1998

The Compound The Surfer's Journal, Volume 29.6

There is a misconception that McCarthy didn't read from the contemporary lit scene, but he did. For example, he revealed having read this collection of essays by macho playwright David Mamet in the late 1980s. (6/10)

There's still plenty of weird stuff in the California desert.

Scouting Party, Olaf Wieghorst (1899-1988), Undated

Georgia O’Keeffe fixing a drink on her Glen Canyon trip with Eliot Porter, 1961. Looks to be a bourbon and vinegar.

Alec Baldwin and Elle Macpherson in “The Edge.” Screenplay by David Mamet, 1997

Reddish Egret, John James Audubon, 1835

Master Sergeant Jerry Shriver's hometown: DeFuniak Springs, Florida. He was born to hunt the jungle.

Homosassa Jungle - Florida, Winslow Homer, 1904

Cambodia, 1970

As you do not know the path of the wind, Or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, So you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. Ecclesiastes 11:5

Scene from a Greek vase of miners working underground, c. 400 BC

The Americans rode past the slag and rubble and the dark shapes of shaft mouths and they rode past the smeltinghouse where piles of ore stood about and weathered wagons and orecarts bonewhite in the dawn and the dark iron shapes of abandoned machinery. - Blood Meridian

Azurite from near the Morenci mine in southeastern Arizona. This mineral was known from the time of the ancient Greeks to indicate sub-surface copper deposits.

Apache prisoners condemned to the mines of Chihuahua, Uncredited Engraving, 1869

Whetstone Mountains - Arizona, Maynard Dixon, 1944

Morencini Mine Railroad, Arizona, late 1800s

Intriguing discussion between artworld insiders on how to sell stolen artifacts, and the bullshit of museums and antiquities laws. If you find lost treasure, tell no one. ⬇️

So beautiful out here this evening.