An unusual amount of rain has turned the Desert Landscape in Campo, California green.
Taken from the inside of what I thought was an old Grain Elevator at the Motor Transport Museum.
One of the men working there told us that the Elevator was not used for Grain, but for Feldspar used in making porcelain.
There was a feldspar mine nearby and this Elevator next to the railroad tracks running from San Diego to Yuma, Arizona and beyond was used for storage and loading.
Many of the men who worked the mine died as a result of having inhaled the dust.
The mine has been shut down many years and the Elevator is slowly decaying as the desert outside blooms.



The image above was taken for the Weekly Informal Challenge (Week 42): "Landscape"

Nikon D700 ,Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
1/3200s f/3.5 at 24.0mm iso200 hide exif

Full EXIF Info
Date/Time	29-Jan-2011 10:26:10
Make	Nikon
Model	NIKON D700
Flash Used	No
Focal Length	24 mm
Exposure Time	1/3200 sec
Aperture	f/3.5
ISO Equivalent	200
Exposure Bias
White Balance
Metering Mode	multi spot (3)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Program	manual (1)
Focus Distance	1.500 m