Looking for Lizards
If you’re looking for an activity to do in the desert heat, try lizard watching. There are plenty of species to discover in the Mojave in southern Nevada.
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If you’re looking for an activity to do in the desert heat, try lizard watching. There are plenty of species to discover in the Mojave in southern Nevada.
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NOTICE: June25, 2020 Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is now open daily from 7:30 a.m. to dusk. The following changes are now in effect due to the COVID-19 restrictions: The Marsh, Mesquite and Desert Willow trails are now designated “One Way” to allow for mandated safe distancing. Masks are required in public when you are within
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According to Dr. Seuss, “From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.” Today the Mojo on the Mojave may not be funny and he may be confusing, let’s see if you find him at all amusing.
High Desert or Hi-Desert or Mojave Desert? Ask Dr. Seuss Read More »
Zip Code 92268 – Pioneertown California sits at just over 4,000 feet in elevation on the edge of the Mojave Desert, at the base of the San Bernardino Mountains where Joshua trees meet pinyon pine, manzanita and juniper. Black bear, deer, bighorn sheep, coyote, fox and desert tortoises all intermingle in this area. I’ve seen
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The 2017 Memorial Day weekend in Yucca Valley has a historical event 67 years old and counting, if you have the chance it is well worth the visit. According to The Desert Sun, Number 35, 30 March 1951: “Where the muleskinner once cursed his laboring string over the sandy ruts between Banning and the old
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A Fresh Look at Frasher – Photography of the Mojave Desert and the Southwest – Before It Was Trendy Who loves old photographs? I do – I find them very satisfying in a cerebral kind of way. Many of the blogs I’ve written have included old photographs of the Mojave Desert. Some of these photos have
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I remember the first time I saw it, back in the 1970’s I was driving north up California Highway 395 between the towns of Lone Pine and Independence. On the west side of the road were the relics of something that seemed important in the past. Driving past these ruins to go to some other
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With the passing of Glenn Frey many people might not know that he has a Mojave Desert connection with Joshua Tree and the nearby Palm Springs area. Here are some pictures from The Eagles’ 1st photo shoot for their 1st album “The Eagles” in Joshua Tree National Park in March of 1972, taken by famed
Glenn Frey, an Eagle in the Mojave Read More »
The Little Park That Saved The World From Atomic War? Desert Christ Park The Author of The Mojo on the Mojave “Jeff Drozd” was appointed the Mayor of Yucca Valley last December. As a part of being Mayor we have events coming up to meet the public. Our first event relates to this blog about
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Mojave Meets Phil Kaufman UPDATE: This particular blog about Gram Parsons has been interesting to say the least, intended to only be one story has now turned into three. After I first wrote the first leg of this story about a year later I got the crime-scene-photo from a friend, then I updated this blog with
Wind-up: Gram Parsons’ Joshua Tree Funeral Read More »