"The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing..." Isaiah 35 verses 1&2
We were blessed with gentle soaking rains in September 2007, which helped the wildflower seeds germinate, and then a reasonably rainy winter in '07-'08. In other words, a very nice wildflower season at Joshua Tree National Park.
Your intrepid photographer went to Joshua Tree on a very windy day along
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Blue Flower (name?)
Photo taken just outside the park's South Entrance. The flowers...
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Lupines and Friends
Also outside the South Entrance
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Chias and ....
That blue flower again, near the South Entrance
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Dandylions and ?
Inside the park
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Desert Dandylions and a Bug or Two
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More Desert Dandylions
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Desert Sunflowers
These flowers are also called "desert gold". I first saw these...
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Sand Verbenas and ????
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Near Fried Liver Wash (I think)
That's the actual name of this area of the park! Lovely carpet of sand...
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Flowers and Mountains
Desert sunflowers against a backdrop of mountains.
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Verbenas and Friends
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blooms 1
Article from the Riverside Press-Enterprise, March 1, 2008
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blooms 2
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Park Visitors' Guide Spring '08
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Park Brochure
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lupines closeup
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Lovely Scenery
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Bugs
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North America
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