So when I read Will’s comment on yesterday’s snow photos, it made me laugh. I mean, me, go to a desert? I thought to myself OK,  I’ll have to make a note, since that’s not on the travel plan anytime soon.

But then it occurred to me that while on the beach in Florida at the end of March, on a blindingly sunny day, I actually had done the same kind of sun/shadow experiments as I did that day in Potsdam with the snow. Only I hadn’t sorted through them yet. So I did that this afternoon.

Here’s a quickly sorted series of sun, sand and shadows. Not quite the desert – the ocean is lurking just off camera. But the patterns on the sand, the interaction with the light and shadows – all of these could have found in a desert.

OK, maybe not one with seagull feather, but still, you get the idea.

See what you think.