Mojave Max Emerges
Southern Nevada’s own weather prognosticator, Mojave Max, declares spring has arrived in the Mojave Desert by emerging from his burrow on Tuesday, March 30, 2010.
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Build yourself a planet
Photography is largely a solitary sport. It is rarely done in a team setting. There is the photographer, a camera and object that is being photographed. Occasionally, there is an assistant. It can also be very serious, after all, if we aren’t just making snapshots, we are trying to create Art, with a capital “A.”
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March 29th, ’10 Joshua Tree National Park Wildflower Report
South part of Joshua Tree National Park Photos taken between the exit from I-10 and the Cottonwood Spring Visitor’s Center The blooms are just starting to open in the southern entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. There were scattered brittlebush, chuparosa, bladderpod, ocotillo and barrel cactus in bloom. The chia and dandelions were abundant and
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Peeps in the wild — a cautionary tale
In this desert lived a unique people called “Peeps.” Peeps came in many shapes, Chicked-dy Chicks, Wascally Wabbits and a variety of other beings, depending on the season — Plump Punkins’, Ghastly Ghosts and Christmas Trees. They lived faithfully with each other.
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Peep Peep cheep cheep
Thousands, no, probably tens of thousands of little beady eyes watched me enter the store. The official greeter said, “Welcome to Wal-Mart.” There were shelves overflowing with fluorescent pink, blue and purple creatures, impossible colors in nature.
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Get Ready for the Spring Wildflower Bloom
Expect 2010 desert wildflowers to be brilliant!
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Spring!
Spring makes me happy! The onset of warm weather stirs my wanderlust and strengthens my resolve to spend more time outdoors communing with nature. Living things are waking up after their short winter hiatus, and I almost feel the same way! I am elated that the Mexican Poppies are blooming, the Cactus Wrens are repairing
Wildlfower Update: Coachella Valley and Joshua Tree National Park
Wildflower Update March 1st, 2010 It is still early to view the wildflowers here in the Coachella Valley. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park has some blooms opening in various parts of the park. For current updates visit DesertUSA’s Wildlflower Reports. Edom Hill in Cathedral City, CA has some lupine, sand verbena and brittlebush along the roadside
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A passion for the rails
I have been photographing trains, I think, forever. I remember taking a snapshot, with my dad’s old camera, of a big black train tearing by while I was still in high school. There is this adrenaline rush, a natural high as the train passes; horns screaming, crossing bells going off, the ground rumbling. Did you
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Rememberin’ Panniment Annie
Annie’s rebellious nature included an early marriage at 15, and then leavin’ her husband in Boston to run bootleg whiskey from Canada to Chicago. She worked her way West as a ranch cook in Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado before contractin’ tuberculosis. The sickness forced her to the hot, dry climate of the Shoshone Hot Springs area where Annie took up minin’, and discovered a lifestyle that was with her the rest of her life.
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