Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve.

Cholla Garden

This is the "Cholla Garden" in Joshua Tree National Park. A walk through this area tends to leave one covered with nasty spines.

Joshua Tree National Park

Here is a Joshua Tree and one of the numerous large boulders present in the park.

Joshua Trees

This shows a large Joshua Tree and numerous others visible in the background.

Cactus "Leaf"

This a detail photo of a cactus. It was taken in the "Hidden Valley" section of Joshua Tree National Park.

Salt Flats

These are salt flats near Amboy, CA.

Amboy Crater

This is taken from within Amboy Crater, a cinder cone. The lava stretches for miles into the distance.

Ripples in the Sand

This was taken at Kelso Dunes in Mojave National Preserve. At this late hour the sand was basically glowing.

Who passed this way?

Here are the footprints of some unknown creature at Kelso Dunes.

Sanddunes

Here is another view of Kelso Dunes.

Cinder Cone

Here is one of the Cinder Cones (and the Moon) at Mojave National Preserve. The large grouping of Cinder Cones in the area is a National Natural Landmark. The horizontal line on the cinder cone is part of a "road" that goes to the top. Most of the cones have old roads on them unfortunately.

Backlit Pricklypear

Here is a backlit pricklypear cactus. This photo was taken along the trail to Teutonia Peak. at Mojave National Preserve. From the peak there is a wonderful view of the surrounding terrain and thousands of Joshua Trees are visible as well.

Closeup of Desert Plant

Here is detail photo of a Joshua tree.

Sentinel

This is an interesting rock outcrop along the Hole in the Wall-Mid Hills Trail at Mojave National Preserve. The beginning of this trail is in a narrow canyon made of volcanic rock. You could also spend days scrambling on volcanic rocks near the trailhead. It was easy to climb this outcrop and there was a nice view from the top. The reddish objects in the photo are all barrel cacti.

Dinner Remains

These are the bones of small mammals eaten by an owl. They were all directly beneath a hole in the outcrop in the previous image. Apparentely, the owl lived up there and dropped undigestable bones to the ground.

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