Joshua Tree Totem Pole

Temporarily fixated on Photo Art, I guess, thanks to Marc, I started looking through some really old archives and found one from 11/02 of a Joshua Tree. You may be thinking, “You too?” (yucca, yucca). But seriously, it’s not a tree, and Bono is no Mormon (as far as I know). But they are all over the place in the National Park; Joshua Trees, that is.

Anyway, this image was a landscape format close-up of the “trunk”; not really a tree and so not really a trunk. So for this forum, I decided to play around this afternoon and see what happened. I gave it a 90° CCW rotation. Then I tried a few bilateral symmetry manipulations: They’re always good for a few laughs.

Sometimes we remember pictures for the circumstances, and what I remember most about this trip to Palm Springs is that I contracted a mysterious respiratory infection that manifested in a high temperature and significant respiratory bleeding so I went to the local emergency room. Over $8,000 later, they couldn’t find anything wrong. But on the plane, headed home, I sat next to a guy who had had the exact same symptoms, and he had not visited the Park. Go figure.

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