Alabama Hills View

With Inyos behind.

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Artist's Palette, Death Valley NP

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Palm Springs

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Yucca Brevifolia (Joshua Tree)

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Clark Dry Lake Bed, Anza Borego

This valley, known as a "pull apart basin," has dropped in elevation, much like Badwater in Death Valley, due to the motion of neighboring faults.

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Clark Dry Lake Bed

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Borrego Badlands, Anza Borrego

What’s so “bad” about these lands? Formerly under sea, this deceptively barren landscape shields such jewels as palm oases, hidden springs and a slot canyon.

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Henderson Field, Anza Borrego

2017 was the superbloom year

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Vasquez Rocks, Tataviam Naive American Petroglyph

tataviam roughly translates into "People of the Sunny Slopes." Their Chumash neighbors on the coast called them "Aliklik," believed to be a derogatory term mimicking the clicking sound of their language.

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Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve

Fewer poppies in this part, taken over by California goldfields

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Poppies and goldfields

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Purple Desert Lupine and Browneyes aka Browneyed Primrose

Lupinus shockleyi and Chylismia claviformis

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Nightmare Gulch, Red Rock Canyon State Park

Southern end had this one lonely tree

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