Dune wedding

Hiking in sand dunes in the california desert, exploring the Mojave, and sunset in Joshua Tree National Park. This elopement was an adventurous experience in the most beautiful places in the Southern California Desert.

This is something I've been playing with now for years and years, and haven't gotten quite right to my satisfaction until now. Frank Herbert is a little bit coy with his descriptions of melange, but overall the sense is that of cinnamon, sometimes specifically "bitter cinnamon". In Dune, Dr. Yueh waxes poetical, saying that the…