Joshua Tree Grove, CA 4-13
(1 in a multiple picture album)
We are only 90 minutes from Joshua Tree National Park. We used to go there every year but, alas, like many other NPs it has been 'discovered' by too many people.
Two distinct desert ecosystems, the Mojave and the Colorado, come together in Joshua Tree National Park.
By the mid-19th century, Mormon immigrants had made their way across the Colorado River. Legend has it that these pioneers named the tree after the biblical figure, Joshua, seeing the limbs of the tree as outstretched in supplication, guiding the travelers westward.
The park boasts the largest number of these trees anywhere on earth. Here a whole grove of them spread out beneath the wonderful desert sky.
Many folks avoid any place called a desert, but as you can see there is beauty to be found.
Joshua Tree Grove, CA 4-13
(1 in a multiple picture album)
We are only 90 minutes from Joshua Tree National Park. We used to go there every year but, alas, like many other NPs it has been 'discovered' by too many people.
Two distinct desert ecosystems, the Mojave and the Colorado, come together in Joshua Tree National Park.
By the mid-19th century, Mormon immigrants had made their way across the Colorado River. Legend has it that these pioneers named the tree after the biblical figure, Joshua, seeing the limbs of the tree as outstretched in supplication, guiding the travelers westward.
The park boasts the largest number of these trees anywhere on earth. Here a whole grove of them spread out beneath the wonderful desert sky.
Many folks avoid any place called a desert, but as you can see there is beauty to be found.