Joshua Tree in Bloom
I don't recall exactly where I was when I pulled over to photograph these two high desert scenes in April 2003. It might have been somewhere between Highway 395 and Lake Isabella.
Eleven years earlier I was on my first backpacking trip with a group called Desert Survivors when I stopped to photograph this desert tortoise whose mouth was stained green from its recent leafy breakfast.
We hadn't hiked far past the desert tortoise when we encountered this sidewinder rattlesnake sunning itself in a creosote bush.
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