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Mud Road to Coyote Buttes
Desert Southwest | February 2, 2009
Low clouds move with surreal speed along the cliffs above the Colorado River; they swirl, shapeshift, and from time to time, they seem to disappear altogether. Day will come soon, but until then, the movement of the clouds brings unexpected shapes.
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Mesa to Canyon along the Colorado Plateau
Desert Southwest | March
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drank water on a grassy plateau, and entered the gulch. This slot descended
to 500 feet under its cliffs, and it was narrow. Soon, there were patches
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The Saltwater Fish of Death Valley
Desert Southwest | June
It's unlikely that anybody beyond a handful of scientists would care much about this tiny fish, except for the fact that farmers were keen to use this same series of springs for their crops.
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Wandering Eastern Mojave
Desert SouthweST | FEBRUARY
Somehow, the kit fox made it between my tires, and dazed, walked off into the flats. My guilt for the rabbit was short-lived. But my guilt for almost hitting the kit-fox lasted the entire five hours to Los Angeles.
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Bombay Beach and the Salton Sea
Desert Southwest | sEPTEMBER
The
truck slowed at my presense, and a bald man and his scruffy wife grinned
at me and drove on. While I was walking down the main street of Bombay
Beach, I noticed the blue truck had stopped, and the couple was watching
the sunrise.
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Paddling and Driving the Los Angeles River
Desert Southwest | May
We walked the gentle ridge of the Los Angeles River's first dam, and down into a marshy bed of sand and water; through the bamboo, and out into the shadow of the iron claws of the dam.
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Death and Salvation on the New River
Desert Southwest | June
That mountain - it's one of the geological 'slabs', is really just a clay hill. The slabs are a series of wasteland buttes that extend into the empty desert beyond. Leonard began painting one day when it was 118 degrees in the fierce Salton Sea summer sun.
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Barren Anza Borrego Desert
Desert Southwest | April
As I rounded a cliff, I saw two bulls fighting on a plateau; and this was a thoroughly stunning scene. But I was getting concerned; the rain was creating a fog as I drove higher into the mountains. Soon, the fog grew to a visibility of 50 feet. |
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Panamint Valley Roach Motel
Desert Southwest | June
My plan was to hike two miles on a mud flat at the center of Panamint Valley. The valley is gigantic, and parts of it fall within the Death Valley National Park boundaries. The Panamint Valley can defy imagination.
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Four Seasons of the Western Mojave
Desert Southwest | March
From here I can see five miles of trees, and a Jack Rabbit, the size of a small dog ditching his Chuparosa hideout. I find a Prickly Pear Cactus, and examine some lichen through my loupe - lime, aqua, red-orange and pitch.
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Trona and the Unusual Lake Searles
Desert Southwest | February
Go to any small bar in any small town, and you will get the same answer. "Too many people there huh?" "Yeah." "Way too many fucking people there huh?" "Yeah." And he started laughing and drew the last sip from his pitcher and said...
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High Desert
Micro Update | Desert Southwest | April
"I didn't require adventure, and had little desire for the true unknown or original. What I wanted was to know something I had not known before, nor had I expected to find. I wondered what prejudices those ladies' parents had instilled in them about the world."
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Skateboarding Las Vegas
Desert Southwest | February 12, 2009
A few years ago, I decided to cross Las Vegas by skateboard, and then write about it. I've yet to complete the project, but in its pursuit, I've already come across places and experiences in this sprawling, growing city.
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Tales and History from the Channel Islands
Micro Update | Desert Southwest | April
Islands off the coast of Los Angeles harbour windblown zoology.
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Captions from the Los Angeles Coast
Micro Update | Desert Southwest | July 3, 2008
Short captions on images from coastal LA.
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Goatsuckers of the Troposphere
Desert Southwest | May 19, 2009
At night, most of what you see driving in Ajo are the advertisements for Mexican car insurance vendors. I'm out looking for a drink, just a beer maybe. I can't tell you what a day I've had. The places I've been. The stories I want to tell you!
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