Coyote Crossing

They’re cute when they’re small

I got email a few days ago from Coyote Crossing reader Anthony Edwards, who asked:

I was wondering if you had seen Burton Frasher’s photos of Centennial Flat from the 20s? I am going to try and find some of the Joshua Trees if they are still

Before the storm hit

Devil’s Punchbowl Loop Trail, facing southeast. A fantastic hike today in the Mojave Desert-Transverse Ranges ecotone, with piñon/juniper, joshua tree, manzanita and oak, flannelbush, scrub jays and juncos, Ambassadors from the Owl Nation, and my

Open

There are still places in the desert where one can look out at many miles of landscape with no obvious human intrusion. True, you might have to face a certain direction, or carefully hide the railroads and evaporating pans you know are there

Avenue D Sunset

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Sheep Pass

Yesterday, around 3:00 PM. Driving on Park Boulevard, Joshua Tree National Park. We drive past a sign that says “Sheep Pass Campground.”

Me: You know, I bet you could get a really good night’s sleep there.
The Raven: [near-silent groan]
Me: You

Pinto Basin Road

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Continental Divide

Borderlands, Continental Divide produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology from iLCP on Vimeo.

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The International League of Conservation Photographers sent a team of world-renowned photographers, with

The Raven and Red Cliffs

She told me later she’d tried to climb and a piece came off in her hand. Not surprising: this is the loose, friable rock of the Ricardo Formation, lakebed sediments that accumulated from the Miocene through the Pleistocene. My map calls it

Red Rock Canyon Sunset

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Red Rock Canyon State Park

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A year full of Joshua trees

Forgive the crass commercialism, and I won’t even mention that thing that happens toward the end of the year with the orgy of consumption and the stress and the Carol of the Bells driving you into a tightly choreographed stabbing frenzy, but 2010

Michael Gordon’s Joshua tree photos

One of the people I met this weekend out in Kelso is Michael Gordon, an outstandingly talented desert photographer. Michael’s been capturing images of Joshua trees that put mine to shame. (Though you should still buy my Joshua tree

Trona-Wildrose

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Panamint Mountains

Taken today, 5:00 or so pm, from the Trona-Wildrose Road south of Panamint Springs. If I’m not mistaken, that deep cleft in the mountain there is Surprise Canyon. … (continues)

Centennial Flat

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Joshua tree calendar for 2010

Because the new year looms a mere 95 days or so away, and because the world needs one more desert landscape photography calendar to help you navigate the new year, this blog proudly offers the somewhat grandiosely named Sentinels of The Mojave

Yesterday at Moss Landing

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Cima Sunset 6

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Cima Dome Sunset V

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Cima Dome Sunset II

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