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Month: April 2013

  • Malapai Hill

    Malapai Hill, Geology Tour Road, Joshua Tree National Park
    The twin peaks of Malapai Hill rise about 400 feet above the valley floor. The black basalt that composes the hill is …  click the photo for more information …

    Malapai Hill - Joshua Tree National Park
     Malapai Hill

  • Big Dune

    Big Dune, Nevada

    Photo of Big Dune

  • Casa del Desierto

    Harvey House, Casa del Desierto, Barstow, CA. 2002: built 1911.

    Casa del Desierto
    Casa del Desierto

  • Every Desert Site needs a Picture of One of These!

    Horned Lizard

    horned lizard, desert wildlife
    Horned lizard

    What can you say?- These little guys hide by staying ~real still~. They eat ants and squirt acrid blood from their eyes when attacked. I think. I’m not an expert– However, it’s just a lizard anyway. Don’t eat!

  • Needles – Topock, Az.

    My wife didn’t believe the colors were authentic, until we spent some time watching a sunset there.

    Needles formation, Needles California
    The Needles formation – Topock, Az.

     

  • Tonopah, Nevada

    Tonopah is a small community with a population of about 2,600. Tonopah is located at the junction of U.S. Routes 6 and 95 approximately half-way… (click the photo for more information on Tonopah)

    Tonopah, Nevada, mining town
    Tonopah, Nevada

     

     

  • A Quick Tour of the Mojave

    The Whole Mojave A-Z

    The Mojave High Desert is one desert rather than a series of separate entities- That we are the same through the diversity that binds us. By becoming aware of our combined identity, we may be able to appreciate, and better understand issues affecting our Mojave Desert on a holistic level. In this presentation we meander back and forth across the Mojave Desert in photographs to illustrate this concept.

    Map of Mojave Desert

  • Furnace Creek Sunrise

    Sometimes you can get caught in an imperfect sunrise.  Sunrise shots don’t always work out.  Sometimes you just have to get out of it what you can–even if it’s just understanding you’ve lived to see another sunrise.

    599-furnace-creek-sunrise-j7381

  • The Basketmaker of the Desert

    By MARY BEAL

    Nearly every desert visitor knows Evening Primrose—but not all of them know that the white-ribbed “baskets” so often found rooted in the sand are the dried stalks of this lovely white flower which blossoms at night and takes a siesta when the sun comes out….Continued Here