Ilse and the Omani desert in bloom

Elsie and Ali stayed on in the gulf area and met so many good new friends. Many of them, like Ilse, in this photo, had been on the LMC course and gave a warm welcome to stay with them. Ilse took them out into the desert where one of those supremely rare rainstorms had brought out the whole desert in bloom. Usually it is all brown sand without a ghost of an indication that under that apparent dessicated landscape a million seeds are ready at the first rain to spring out into brilliant flower.