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I hadn't planned to make this an official New Year's resolution ...Zabriskie Point
It was more fun for ...The Letter
Watching through the ...The Hottest Day
It was the morning of the hottest day ...Of a Subtle Nature
Sunset on the Soda Lake PlayaThe Dreamer
A short verseThe Green Hills of Earth
~ by Robert HeinleinWhat's Wrong with Ewe?
The concept was great, a sheep that could kill coyotes. However, pulling it off was an entirely different matter.Game Trails in the Antelope Valley
So, what happened to the Antelope in the Antelope Valley?Shoshone Bob & the Magic Mesquite Elixir
Troublesome and desperate times called for troublesome and dangerous refreshments ...A Marginal Adventure
Sometimes you just have to pick a spot and see what you see ...Massacres at the Amargosa House
As the first group of Mormon pioneers made their way across the Mojave in 1849, two of them looking for ...The Dry Lands
A favorite passage from Land of Little Rain by Mary AustinVision
"When from the lips of Truth one mighty breath ...Metate Stone
For hundreds if not thousands of years, the Yharetum, the People of ...Of the Serrano Indians
Back in the beginning of time the Lord was living here with all the people. He was the one who ...Sand
The sand in this photo is made up of granuals of rose quartz. The source of this quartz is ...Chemehuevi Indian Creation Story
... When Coyote lifted the lid of the basket to see inside, all of the people jumped out and ...Coso Petroglyphs
There are thousands of carvings throughout the canyon. No one knows what they mean or why they are there. This is what ...The Highwayman
The banditos would hide their horses in the clefts in the formation, climb to the top, and keep a lookout- They could see for ...Chuckwalla
They are big and they look mean, but the chuckwalla (Sauromalus obesus), is a harmless herbivore feeding on desert flowers, ...Mojave Green Rattlesnake
There were rattlesnakes all over the place. Mean ones, with nasty tempers and bad attitudes. They’d eat a good-sized coyote whether ...-
Weather
Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,
And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be--
Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth,
With a record of unreason seldome paralleled on earth.
While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth,
From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth.
He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote
On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote--
For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow:
"Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow."
~Ambrose Bierce