Now that we are in the middle of fall in the Mojave Desert you might start thinking about planting and landscaping your yard. Fall and winter can be the best time to plant and whether you are new to the Mojave or if you are a desert rat, you might need a few ideas.
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The Holiday season is coming. Let me tell you what artistic products we are offering this year at www.dalmdad.com: A. Holiday Cards Five new winter-themed cards based on snow-covered mountain or desert locales. B. Our Kids Book Again, we offer our A Kid’s Guide to Some California Critters. The Second Edition received good reviews from
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park has so much to offer as long as you look. I wanted to post this picture to share it with the other Anza-Borrego explorers on the site. However, because desertusa.com is not just some photo posting site (not that there is anything wrong with having a flickr photostream), I felt an obligation to have
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Here it is almost 3 O’dark in the morning and I am still awake. “Why?” you may ask. “I am thinking,” I say. One of my friends says I think too much. I think she is right, because right now thinking is keeping me awake. I am thinking about the recent story I read about
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It’s almost Halloween – time for all kinds of creepy things, including tarantulas. Male tarantulas are especially active at this time of year.
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Desert Center, CA About 45 minutes east of Indio, in California, is a sleepy little town called Desert Center. It lies between the cities of Blythe and Indio, at the junction of I-10 and State Route 177. There are only about 150 residents living in Desert Center. Downtown there is a post office and a
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I went to Afton Canyon recently to shoot the Cliffside Mine and other parts of the canyon for the main part of this story. My friend and I had made the initial Mojave River crossing dozens of times. This time the water looked deeper than usual and I wanted to get out and check it
As a resident of the Coachella Valley, I’m always looking for fun day trips in and around the Palm Springs area. I had heard that there was a new raceway built out at Desert Center, CA, which is a very small town just 45 minutes east of where I live. I decided to go check
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What in the world could a ghost town in the middle of the Mojave Desert and an amusement park in the middle of Orange County have in common? Surprisingly, Calico Ghost Town and Knott’s Berry Farm have many things in common, Walter Knott is the common thread of both of these Southern California attractions. Calico Ghost Town came
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A few weeks ago we spent a very nice Saturday night in a cabin in the Laguna Mountains of eastern San Diego county after spending the day searching for bighorn sheep in the southern portions of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (no luck!). The Laguna Mountains are in eastern San Diego county and generally run north-south.
