IN THE MOOD...for Big Band Sounds in the Desert!
It was a lovely afternoon for music...and to be in the desert. Not two things that usually go together, but for one afternoon, they blended with each other in a marvelous way. Tex and I headed out of our compound, through the city, and out into the desert. We traveled about an hour out into the vastness that seems to be a huge amount of nothing when you see it on a map. Given, the desert is not green or lush by any stretch of imagination, and has very few colors that aren't on the brown side of the color wheel, but once you are actually in the desert, you realize it has a definite beauty all its own. It also isn't just sand. Those movie scenes where the guy is stumbling through the desert looking for water, and there is nothing but sand, sand, and more sand, is accurate in some areas, but not all. The area we were in had lots of rock formations that scaled up rather high. We were headed to a specific wadi, in the Al-Oyun region of the Al-Ahsa Governorate. A wadi is d...