by Steve Reiss (Dalmdad Landscape Photography – www.dalmdad.com and https://www.facebook.com/Dalmdad.) There are soooo many options… In the Mojave Desert? On a Hotel Patio in Shelter Cove, CA? Or…Driving Through Death Valley? *** Let’s hear where everyone decides? *** Sunset Photos from all over the USA available for license or purchase at our website (dalmdad.com). *** Happy New Year […]
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by Steve Reiss (Dalmdad Landscape Photography – www.dalmdad.com and https://www.facebook.com/Dalmdad.) What is the probability that you will ever meet the same desert tortoise twice? I guess the probability is pretty good if you happen to be visiting with the desert tortoises of the Desert Tortoise Natural Area (DTNA) in California City, CA. It was in April 2011, in
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by Steve Reiss (Dalmdad Landscape Photography (www.dalmdad.com and https://www.facebook.com/Dalmdad.) Sorry to have not posted here at DUSA for a while. However, this post could not be more timely. This post discusses the pitfalls of wildflower hunting and it is currently wildflower season. I have been to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park quite a number of times since I
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It was interesting to recently see that the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) picked up and published on-line a story dated June 22, 2012 about a Yuma, AZ man who was crushed by a falling saguaro cactus in the Yuma, Arizona area. The story must have originated from a wire report or the local Yuma papers
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Names have been changed to protect the innocent and anonymous. I have a one track mind. Lately, all I did was think about sleep and getting ready for sleep. I was moving slowly, feeling a chill, and noticing the sun setting a little earlier each day, telling me the clock-changing time was soon here. Oh,
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park: Summer, 2011: – There was a faint but growing orange glow on the horizon. The glow added an orange tint to the eastern facing layered sedimentary rocks of the Borrego Badlands. If I was a little taller, I probably would have been able to see the Salton Sea from here. Sunrise
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September 2, 2011: If getting though Cajon Pass and up to the California high desert is a challenge on the average Friday; you can imagine how much more of a challenge the trip is on the last three-day weekend of the summer. Any traffic going northwards towards Vegas, Death Valley, or Lake Havasu must snake
I’m no bowler, but I do know that a 7-10 split usually sucks. I’ve recently noticed this split. Pin #7, @Trona National Monument, CA Photo taken 8/31/2008 Conditions: 115F with 100% chance of sandstorm… *** Pin #10, @ Christmas Tree Pass Road, NV (near Laughlin, Nevada) Photo taken 9/2/2011 Conditions: 95F with 100% chance of
The Strive to Survive About 8 months after arriving on the central coast of California from the eastern US, we decided on a day-trip to Parkfield, California, the self-labeled “Earthquake Capitol of the World” (though bragging about that sounds weird in view of the earthquake tragedy of Japan in 2011). Parkfield asks you to
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