Desert scrub at last light with a ridgeline behind — National Park Service via Rawpixel, CC0

Lantern

Notes from elsewhere

Field logs — winter

Three of 61
A dirt track winding through a dry canyon — photograph by Álvaro Dallas, CC0
Alentejo, PTLog 58

Eleven Days on the Dry River

We walked a riverbed that has not carried water since 2019, and met the four families still farming its banks.

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A stone alley climbing between village walls — WordPress Photo Directory, CC0
Konya, TRLog 59

The Woman Who Maps Wells by Ear

Nesrin Aydemir can hear a water table nine metres down. She has been right 43 times out of 47.

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Waves breaking against a sea stack under low cloud — photograph by StockSnap, CC0
Vestland, NOLog 60

A Ferry That Runs for Six Passengers

The 06:40 crossing loses money every morning of the year, and the county has voted eight times to keep it.

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Playlist — what the drive sounded like

Side A, 4 tracks
01 Low Beam Marisol Enseñat 4:12
02 Cassette, Left in the Sun The Quiet Harbour 3:47
03 Salt Flat Waltz Deniz Kavur Trio 6:05
04 Two Miles of Gravel Halla Bergsdóttir 5:23