• The Coming Storm

    In the late afternoon light, we race across the South Gobi to reach Dalanzadgad before the sky rips open.

  • Boom Scenario

    Empty streets. Quiet but for the grinding rumble of snowplow blades scraping the pavement. Fresh snow underfoot. More than two feet between Friday and Saturday. A city paralyzed. And beauty all around.

  • Highway Lights

    An untouched sidewalk along an unusually quiet Germantown Road, courtesy of the “Polar Vortex.”