Letter From The Desert: Landscapes lost and not lost

On the possibility of happy endings

There comes the cacophonous ploink of another email coming into my work account, and I glance at the subject line. I am immediately distracted.

Rice Solar Energy Facility Closure Plan

An hour and change east of here, there would have been a 650-foot tower surrounded by two square miles of mirrors, all of it fenced off against trespass by tortoises and bot…