Anza-Borrego Spring Wildflowers and Desertscapes

Hi There,

It's been a few days since you heard from me, but I have been busy developing more photos from my visit at the end of March to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in San Diego County. I have placed them all in a separate photo gallery now devoted to this one field trip. And there are not just spring wildflowers anymore; there's a grasshopper too and a shot of the long shadows of the setting sun on the hillside to the west of Plum Canyon where I spent most of the day.

Follow this link to see a slideshow of the flowers and desert landscapes of Anza-Borrego. Note that if you press the F11 key on your keyboard which hides your browser toolbars, the sideshow will also automatically resize the images to even larger photos.

If you are "bandwidth-challenged" you might prefer this static gallery of photos from Anza-Borrego.

Golf Club at Terra Lago

If you take a look at the photo on the website for the Golf Club at Terra Lago in Indio, CA, you'll see a different side than you see in this image. You might call this the "backside". The spot I took this photo from I think was meant to have houses built on it, but with the housing market downturn hitting the desert cities of the Cochella Valley hard, work on Terra Lago has been halted for now.

The thing that struck me as I wandered around here was how destructive we are of the environment. The desert landscape is levelled and grass planted. What was wild is tamed and groomed. Here you can see a bit of both worlds with the green grass of one of the greens, a shipping container acting as a workmen's shed but now abandoned and hidden from the view of the golfers and beyond the rugged desert landscape.