Pretty pictures in my head and fun facts

I wanted to jot down some general impressions of our drive so far.
Both Arizona and California must consume an enormous amount of water to grow all the food that is grown there.
Twenty five per cent of all food consumed in the U.S. is grown in California.
One thousand big trucks leave Yuma everyday for parts near and far.
Five thousand workers from Mexico are bused in every day over the border to work in the fields. These workers are essential to the food economy.
Without them nothing gets picked or tended.
They had a day called "Dia del Campesino" to actually celebrate them.
Hundreds of acres of cotton are grown in Arizona. Since the textile industry is pretty well nul and void, as is the one in Canada, I wonder where they ship all this cotton to, possibly Mexico, Honduras but I suspect a lot of it ends up in China and is reshipped as finished goods.
There is a railway in Arizona and hundreds of huge containers, many labeled Costco, are also shipped this way, that's in addition to all the truck movement from one end of the continent to the other.
Arizona enjoys 300 days of sunshine a year and has more solar panels than any other state in the U.S.

Thought I would share these interesting nuggets.

Pretty pictures:
Some truly gigantic snowflakes, the biggest I had ever seen, the branches heavy with them.
The hundreds of wind towers like silent sentinels standing guard over their dominion waiting for the wind to rouse them out of their contemplative torpor.
The name 29 Palms always reminds me of the film by French philospher turned director Bruno Dumont. One of these days I will rent it, watch it and maybe even like it.
The mountains silhouetted against the blue desert sky.
The Sonora desert home to the Sequoia cactus not as impressive as its cousin the mighty cardon from Baja California but formidable nonetheless. The desert home as well to sage brush and the unlovely
creosote bush as well as the Mesquite tree, not an easy to tame landscape.
The sight of a mesquite tree hung with Christmas decorations by the side of the road.
The deceptively pretty bits of glass and plastic which shine so brightly in the sunlight yet will take decades to decay.
A solitary hawk on a solitary branch, proud looking and imperious even from a distance.
These are some of the pretty pictures I wanted to share.

We got a little turned around on our way to Nogales but ended up in a Casino called Desert Diamonds which featured a lovely lunch of salmon on a bed of salad and fresh fruits, possibly one of the best salds we will have in a while. Took a stroll through the casino, tried to put one dollar in the machine and were so inept we pressed on cash back and our dollar came back in the form of a ticket. We played it and promptly lost it, such an incomprehensible passtime. Row upon row of zombified, stupefied people, hard to understand the attraction.
C'est tout, relaxing in our hotel, tomorrow Mexico.