Here are more photos taken Monday in Death Valley National Park. These were taken driving through the southeastern part of the valley.
Here are some closeups of the colors in the formations shown above:
There is a lot more color, and more life in the Death Valley than I was expecting.
These last three photos were actually taken after I exited the Park near Shoshone, California and was driving back to Pahrump, Nevada (just across the state line). It shows a smaller mountain range (the Nopah Range) with some interesting patterns in the rock. This is a three-shot panorama looking left to right:
