I’ve never stayed there but have seen the place during a tour of the ranch. Looks very quiet and secluded. I’d try it. It looks just as nice as any desert accommodations I’ve seen and stayed in, and a helluva lot better than anywhere else in Tecopa or Shoshone. I’m not sure if it’s a B&B.
Before I get into this, “Mojave Green”, is a slang name for the Mojave Rattlesnake. I didn’t know that until a couple years after I moved to the desert. Sometimes though, the facts are just plain boring and a bit of B.S. can brighten things up and even change our lives.
Wow! That’s about all I can say. Death Valley amazes me. Everytime I go I’m just blown away by the park. This time I spent 4 days out there, photographing and collecting information on ghost towns, geology and wildlife in the area.
So, editing a section for the natural history of the wildlife of the Mojave Desert, I keep running into the phrase, “Avian predators.” I think that sounds so cool! In relation to lizards, such as the zebra-tailed lizard, this phrase keeps coming up. I wonder what a red-tailed hawk or great horned owl would want to have to do with such a small meal? This is what I’m thinking when I read the phrase. (more…)
I thought I’d post a note in regard to the recent update of the Glossary on MojaveDesert.NET.
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Several hundred words have been added. I’ve been going through some of the more popular definitions and adding photos and backlinks. It’s a project that will take awhile, especially since I’m finding words I need to add everytime I work on it.
Rainbow Basin National Natural Landmark, located a few miles northwest of Barstow, Ca., is known in geo-lingo as an “unconformity.” That’s all I know about it, and since I usually forget all the technical junk that I read about how the landscape bashed and battered itself along the fault lines that meet, pass nearby, under and around this beautiful place, I’ll just agree; It does not, geologically conform to the general landscape of the area.
Now for the cool stuff. This place is awesome for photography! (more…)
The phainopepla is a pretty bird. I’ve seen quite a few of them at the Oasis of Mara in Twentynine Palms and flitting up and down washes where willows are plentiful. The males are jet-black with white patches under the wings, the females are sort of a blue-grey and both have the redest eyes I’ve ever seen on any kind of animal. (more…)
I’m continually impressed by the wildlife photos of Raymond J. Barlow. Inspired in fact; To the point where I thought, that maybe if I could do even 1/10 of that good I could use the shots I took on my web site.
Not so- in any way.
So I spent a few hours trying to capture some birds in flight. (more…)
The raven are ”cheesy-friendly” at Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley. I hear they are in Furnace Creek too. By “cheesy-friendly”, I mean, if you have some little cheese snacks in your hand, they will be your best buddies. Note that they are just using you. (more…)
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