Joshua Tree National Park

The ride out of L.A. was simple enough; lots of expansive swaths of highway and traffic congestion. Fortunately we were on the non-congested side, heading out of the city and into the desert-y rural areas of California. After a mix up detour and turnaround, we made it to Indio and grabbed some groceries for our camping stay at Joshua Tree. We checked in and drove out to one of the camp sites, set up camp and did some exploring. There are a number of large rock formations you can climb about on.














Evil cholla







During the night coyotes wandered through the camp. At first I thought it was someone chanting outside the tent, what with the weird rhythmic panting they were doing but then they began their trademark yipping.

The moon was full and so bright that I thought it was dawn and ended up waking up and wandering around the campsite with James at 3am. We did some light painting photographs. Or the best that we could with this simple digital camera.


A Joshua Tree


A Yucca with the flash filtered by my finger




Light painting on the rocks




Another Joshua tree