03-23-2019, 06:38 PM
I just got back from a Palm Springs weekend. On Saturday we went down to the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, and then Sunday we went to Joshua Tree National Park. Some of the same wild flowers were at Joshua, but many were not and most of the flowers at Joshua Tree were not at Anza Borrego. Anza Borrego is near sea level, while Joshua Tree is between 3,000-5500 feet elevation. The wild flowers were gorgeous!
It dawned on me that I had not been out to the desert since I worked at the Eagle Mountain Iron Mine near Desert Center in the 1970, and since my wife is originally from New York and did not come out here until after we were married in 1973, this was the first time she had been to the desert during the wild flower bloom.
Since we have driven across the desert many times during the rest of the year, but never in Feb. or March, she had never seen the flowers before. She was quite shocked!
It dawned on me that I had not been out to the desert since I worked at the Eagle Mountain Iron Mine near Desert Center in the 1970, and since my wife is originally from New York and did not come out here until after we were married in 1973, this was the first time she had been to the desert during the wild flower bloom.
Since we have driven across the desert many times during the rest of the year, but never in Feb. or March, she had never seen the flowers before. She was quite shocked!