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Speaking of the desert, here's a shot from about an hour earlier, showing one of the Mordor-ish mountains that lines I-10 in southeastern California as it passes through the Mojave Desert:
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They're seriously a bit spooky. As Eomer says in the Return of the King, "Those mountains are evil."