We drove our Dodge truck with its Pilgrim cab-over camper in the West Entrance of Joshua Tree National Park, flashed our Golden Age Pass, and followed the signs to Barker Dam. We angled the Dakota away from the sun and started up the trail. We made minimum progress because of all the new flowers we hadn't identified, such as Wallace's woolly daisy, slender-flowered gilia, white layia, and desert rock pea. It took us nearly an hour to go less than a half mile to the dam-site.
A film crew from Lavender Diamond had arrived not long before we did. The camera woman had stationed herself on a rock, so she could shoot from above, and the director was busy demonstrating to the solo actor the dance she was to perform.
Jeannette said, "Take all the pictures you want. They are in a public place." So they were, and so I did, of three takes of a slender young woman flowing to the water's edge on tiptoes.
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