I'm a natural history and environmental writer, an editor and photographer. I've lived in upstate New York, the SF Bay Area, Washington, DC, the Mojave Desert, and Los Angeles. My writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the Boston Globe, and about thirty daily papers nationwide when I was a syndicated garden writer for the Knight-Ridder chain. No, I never got to meet the talking car.
I've traveled extensively in the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran deserts, as well as in the steppes and slickrock country of the Colorado Plateau.
This blog has existed in one form or another since 2003. At first it was called Creek Running North, after Pinole Creek, near where I lived back then. I moved in 2008 and renamed the site Coyote Crossing, but about a thousand people* still link here under the old name.
My publicist tells me I should mention that my writing here has frequently been called the best on the Internet.
* May not actually equal 1000

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Banner painting by Carl S. Buell.
Nice! I’m glad you were able to help him find what he was looking for.
And gee, there is a line on that horizon. Good thing, or I’d get vertigo.
Hope we don’t have to hear the rattle and hum of transmission lines near there.
Do the streets really have no names there? And do people build and burn down love there too? Closer to Palmdale, there are names with no streets (like 130th “street”), but I’ve never seen any burning love there either.
Nice find. I like Calipidder’s write up of her visit of the area, with photos.
http://calipidder.com/wp/2009/12/cerro-gordo-and-u2s-joshua-tree/
I have to visit the area.
Oh fer… In the name of love, Larry.
Haha! I have actually been to Palmdale, that was to go visit Frank Zappa’s old haunts though. I had my suspicions about the ones in the photo, but without being there again, I was doubtful. Now I see it, especially the three way split and the way the tree divides off into two sections.
Stunning images, particularly in black and white. The images are somewhat haunting, as if the tree holds mysteries are from the past.
Thanks. This will remain in my mind’s eye for quit some time.
Bill
Oh, that’s very cool. Very very cool.
From Derek’s link, the third of the series.
Larry, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Noo, noo, not the punitentiary! So cruel!