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Touring Tucson in early Springtime is a treat for the senses… Tohono Chul Park Event Space Photo © Alice Joyce Having looked forward to exploring the Sonoran Desert city, I was rewarded with beautiful March weather for my foray to Tohono Chul Park, finding the paths abloom with Sophora secundiflora trees. Sophora secundiflora blooms Photo © Alice Joyce The Park is a welcoming setting for all who revel Continue reading Tucson Travel: Tohono Chul Park  6 comments - (Comments are closed)  Botanical Gardens, Desert Travel  Arizona, Desert Southwest, Desert Travel 
Tucson is on the current itinerary, so I won’t be returning to the California desert. Still, that won’t keep me from reliving the adventure of a series of 2011 Springtime hikes through arrays of wildflowers, starting in the Indian Canyons of Palm Springs and going on to Joshua Tree, with lots of time to explore Anza-Borrego State Park. Wildflowers displays light up the desert landscape in a good year…. Continue reading Desert Destinations: Wildflower Hikes Comments are closed Desert Travel, Southern California Desert Travel, Southern California, Wildflowers My desert sojourn to Anza-Borrego State Park followed a route south along California State Highway 86 in order to enter the park from the eastern entrance, leading into the town of Borrego Springs. The drive along Hwy. 86 runs nearly parallel to the western edge of the Salton Sea in the Imperial Valley, past Desert Shores and Salton Sea Beach; desolate towns that time seems to have passed by. A unique inland body of water some 200 feet below sea level, the strangely eerie Salton Sea resulted from massive flooding from the Colorado River over 100 years ago. Continue reading Eerie Vision: The Salton Sea 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Desert Travel, National Parks, Nature, Southern California Anza-Borrego Desert, Desert Travel, Salton Sea, Southern California |
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