Spare Parts and Pics

 I know, it's definitely not a looker. But t he Desert Smoke Tree (or Smoketree), Psorothamnus spinosis , is exquisitely adapted to its ...

  Wow, I can't believe my last post was December 11th!! I never planned to take a blogging break over the holidays. What can I say... Li...

 It was very much last minute when my wife alerted me about the last supermoon of the year. No chance to drive out to the desert, so I set u...

  We had been hiking all afternoon under mostly grey skies and didn't have much hope for a colorful sunset. As the sky darkend and a few...