through the silence something throbs and gleams

Arabian Desert outside of Dubai
United Arab Emirates
August 2015 - ©trryan

I am a lover of deserts. They are epic, timeless, ancient, silent, intimate and full of life defying the greatest of odds. I'm grateful to have gotten  the chance to spend a short time in the Arabian Desert before heading to Russia. I think the Little Prince sums up the desert experience most aptly: "I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs and gleams. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

like five hundred million little bells

Moon Rise with Stars
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
October 2009

And at night I love to listen to the stars.  It is like five hundred million little bells.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery, The Little Prince

The Moon with Milky Way
Newport Beach, California
March 2011