Basking in the Desert Bloom in Joshua Tree N.P., California
The high desert stretches out before you at Joshua Tree National Park, wind sweeping over the waste, buffeting your ears with the silence. Out of the blue, blue sky, you see it, shooting out of what looks like a dead bush—the bright, red, trumpeting blossoms of the ocotillo. Then you notice more, like the bridal bouquets of the Joshua trees and Mojave yuccas. As you drive into the lower desert, the lovable teddy bear chollas beckon, but you know better than to get too close. Still, you stop the car anyway, pulling over for the same reason everyone else along there has—a silence so full, and solitude so complete that you feel right at home.
This image was taken with a Canon Rebel DSLR camera during the evening at the Joshua Tree National Park. The title is "Blind cacti". Although it's winter of 2013, more precisely January, the valley was very warm and of course no traces of snow or winter. The shades and shadows are not modified. The glasses on the cactus are the photographer's glasses and not that of the cactus!
This image was taken during my trip to the Grand Canyon in January of 2013. The title is "Grand Canyon under the colors of January" and the camera used to capture the image is a Canon Rebel DSLR. The many shades of grand canyon's brown colors in a cold evening intrigues many to capture this beauty, so here's one attempt to steal the magnificence through my humble lens.
Won
People's Choice People's Choice and Photography Honorable Mention
for submitting on
Joshua Tree National Park
in
Yucca Valley, CA
as part of the
Weekly Contest.
B-52 bouffant babe, Kate Pierson and her partner Monica Coleman joined forced with artists Phillip Maberry and Scott Walker to create the retro Lazy Desert Vintage Airstream Hotel in Landers, outside of Joshua Tree. Maberry and Walker, who uprooted from New York to take up residents in the high desert six years ago, had previously collaborated with Pierson on her Lazy Meadows 1950’s vintage cottages in the Catskills. The three had met years before when Maberry and Walker lent the band their home to use as the setting for the "Love Shack" video.
Pierson’s rentals, listed by Travel and Leisure Magazine and the London Sunday Times among the top 100 greatest hotels in the world, are decorated with art, linens and fixtures designed by Maberry-Walker.
The kitschy novelty silver bullets with names like “Hot Lava”, “Hairstream”, and “Planet Air” and bright mod designer décor go for $175-$200/night. All trailers are equipped with shade canopies, high speed internet, cable and air conditioned.
Grand Canyon rejected his 3 - ton Christ but a parish in Yucca Valley, just south of Joshua Tree didn’t. From 1950 until his death in 1961, Antone Martin completed 50 biblical from whitewashed steel-reinforced concrete. His Desert Christ Park that suffered earthquake in ’92 was created to promote world peace. Non biblical sculptures of his include the bronze "Goddess of Flight" located at the town’s Community Center and "Saber Tooth Tiger" installed at Triangle Park.
Barker Dam, whether filled with water or dry, is a great hike in Joshua Tree National Park. Locating in Wonderland of Rocks, this easy and short trail is a must for any explorer and outdoor enthusiast. All the way from the trailhead to the dam, interesting rock formations line up for you to capture in photos. In summer and fall, you can walk down into the basin and all the way to the bottom of the dam. If you're not afraid of height, you can walk on the dam to test your courage.
US Department of the Interior Joshua Tree National Park
Winding through the desert scrub and Joshua trees, this rocky and often uneven trail makes for a challenging hike in the potent desert sun. Among the glimpses of native lizards and other wildlife scrabbling for cover, you'll spot strange, decaying relics of times past—rusted pieces of equipment, discolored metal wires, frayed scraps of rope...and finally in the mine itself. The main entrance, with its scaffolding and derelict machinery, may be fenced off, but remains a curiosity to see even from a distance. Bring along some cold chicken, park yourself among the bones of the mine, and you can almost hear the footsteps of the laborers of bygone days...
US Department of the Interior Joshua Tree National Park
The high desert stretches out before you at Joshua Tree National Park, wind sweeping over the waste, buffeting your ears with the silence. Out of the blue, blue sky, you see it, shooting out of what looks like a dead bush—the bright, red, trumpeting blossoms of the ocotillo. Then you notice more, like the bridal bouquets of the Joshua trees and Mojave yuccas. As you drive into the lower desert, the lovable teddy bear chollas beckon, but you know better than to get too close. Still, you stop the car anyway, pulling over for the same reason everyone else along there has—a silence so full, and solitude so complete that you feel right at home.
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