Archive for the 'Desert' Category

Exfoliation

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, May 24th, 2008

The Wily And Elusive Desert Bighorn Sheep

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Some Observations on Xantusia vigilis

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

File under: “Chapters requiring significant revision”

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 14th, 2008

Crow’s foot VII

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Teutonia

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 7th, 2008

Epilobium

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Public relations professionals and other goddamned liars

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Nothing but blue skies coming my way

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Colorado River Twilight

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Save the Desert Cahuilla Prehistoric Area

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, February 8th, 2008

Icterus parisorum

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, January 25th, 2008

Ground truthing

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, January 17th, 2008

They shape the deer

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Quemado

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Joshua tree book funding update

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

The Blogging Thing versus the Book-Writing Thing

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Fissures

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Kessler Peak

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, November 12th, 2007

Fires

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Scenic/Desolate

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Chertoff lies, migrants die

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 1st, 2007

This morning

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, September 21st, 2007

Mojave storm

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Coming back in

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Abundance, deserts, etc.

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, September 9th, 2007

There is no balance of nature

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

South by Southeast

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 31st, 2007

Burning Man

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Pale wing

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 20th, 2007

Zea

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 17th, 2007

Night Geography

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Pine needles

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Camp notes, 7/15/2007, 11 pm

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Looking toward Essex

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, May 17th, 2007

The River of Gold

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Xeric Conifer Woodland, then and now

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, May 5th, 2007

Time to go

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Fire

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 9th, 2007

Regarding the transgression of boundaries

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

A woman after my own heart

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Photo for that timeline post

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

Ten years ago

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Leaning

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, December 18th, 2006

I hate it when butter freezes in my mouth

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Joshua trees and extinction

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, December 8th, 2006

Surviving

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Immigration and the environment, continued

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Route Fifty

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, September 15th, 2006

The Border Patrol bit

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Sabino Canyon

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Fire

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 13th, 2006

A taste for the brothers who can’t be here with us today

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

El Camino del Diablo

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Monsoons indeed!

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 7th, 2006

Monsoons!

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Desert stones

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, July 3rd, 2006

The border fence

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Desert Slaughter Tale

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, June 10th, 2006

Nolina microcarpa

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

Dawson, Goin, and Webb: A Doubtful River

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Lawrence Hogue: All The Wild And Lonely Places

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 26th, 2006

Coyote

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Alamo Road

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Because two weeks out of the desert is just too long

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, May 8th, 2006

Refuge

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 5th, 2006

Salient quote

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Home

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, April 28th, 2006

Saturday night

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Vermilion flycatcher

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 24th, 2006

Tres Alamos

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Watch For Elk

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Off!

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

An example to us all

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 10th, 2006

Sconchin Butte

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Grace Under Fire

Posted by: Kat on Monday, April 3rd, 2006

Optimism

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Ogallala

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Walking

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 17th, 2006

One from a long, long time ago

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Coyote hunting

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, March 13th, 2006

Juniper berries

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 12th, 2006

Chollas

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 10th, 2006

The range and distribution of western arid-land trees

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, March 6th, 2006

Tikaboo Valley

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Clipper Range at sunrise

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Zeke in the water

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, February 24th, 2006

Tucson Mountain Park

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

The same river twice

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Outside Boron

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Picacho Peak

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, February 17th, 2006

Watching tule elk

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, February 10th, 2006

Kat

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, February 9th, 2006

This is my brain

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Olpela bilong graun

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Flow states

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

In the Joshua tree forest

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, January 30th, 2006

Dark

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Sentinel Cave

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Going home!

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, January 16th, 2006

Corn

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, December 16th, 2005

Sentences

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, December 15th, 2005

Wall

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Giving thanks

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Benita Mora

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, November 4th, 2005

Without words

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, October 29th, 2005

Sex and drugs

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Night, conveyances that pass in, marine

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 24th, 2005

Catching the rabbit

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 24th, 2005

10/22

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

Off

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Two weeks

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, October 9th, 2005

In the desert with Martin Buber

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Ten things

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

Making the household miserable again

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Speaking of the Mojave

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

Heading to the Mojave again

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

The year we lost the deserts

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Someone else’s writing

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 15th, 2005

A little preview

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

Burning Man again

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 26th, 2005

Well, Matthew…

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Burning man

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Luna llena

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, August 21st, 2005

Last night

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

How Zeke ran away

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, August 11th, 2005

Data are where you find them

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 8th, 2005

Mono Lake

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, August 7th, 2005

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 5th, 2005

Beautiful downtown Cima, California

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, August 4th, 2005

Mojave nerd photos

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

Mojave burn photos

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

The burn

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

117

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

Housekeeping

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Quote of the day

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, July 25th, 2005

Sunday Writers’ Workshop: Barbara Kingsolver

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, July 24th, 2005

Where was it?

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

Perversity? Displacement? Enlightenment? Wanderlust?

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Burn

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 7th, 2005

Ironwood

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

Sad

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

White Rock Canyon postscript

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

Mather Point, May 18, 2005

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, June 3rd, 2005

The Canyon hike

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, May 23rd, 2005

Tikaboo Valley

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, May 21st, 2005

A quick shot from the big hike photo files

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 20th, 2005

Still not dead

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

White Rock Canyon

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 13th, 2005

Bishop

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

Taking some posts down

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 6th, 2005

Bad news, good news

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

Boring old theropod

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

Walker Pass, Halloween 1997

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

Red Rock Raven

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

A glimpse of my near future

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, March 28th, 2005

Friday extinct herring blogging!

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 18th, 2005

Writing on a wide variety of topics

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

Riverbed sand

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

Eye candy

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Not that I’ll enjoy taking more time off work, mind you…

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Breathing

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Depth of field

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, January 29th, 2005

Waves in the desert

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, January 28th, 2005

The Arid Mojave

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, January 21st, 2005

Gone

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, January 16th, 2005

Not too long now

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, January 8th, 2005

Rainbow Basin

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, December 9th, 2004

Cafe Rocks

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, December 4th, 2004

Skeletons

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, December 3rd, 2004

Pinto Chollas

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, December 2nd, 2004

Ten photos

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

January 15-23, 2005

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, November 25th, 2004

J. (6)

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, November 21st, 2004

Works in progress

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, November 19th, 2004

J. (4)

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

Chicken Point

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, October 22nd, 2004

Still life for Siona

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, October 22nd, 2004

Some things

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, October 19th, 2004

Other things about the trip

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, October 7th, 2004

From the field

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, October 3rd, 2004

Gone fishin’

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

Nine miles, 1900 miles

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, September 28th, 2004

Rain

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, September 19th, 2004

Burning Man

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 16th, 2004

Where my mind is today

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 2nd, 2004

Mouth of Pinole Creek, low tide

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, August 29th, 2004

Ethylene glycol

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, August 24th, 2004

Canyon view

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

Envy envy envy

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

Daydreaming

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, May 9th, 2004

Ichthus

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, April 8th, 2004

Back from the Mojave

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, March 9th, 2004

A note from Ed

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, March 1st, 2004

A week away

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, October 26th, 2003

Artemisia tridentata

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, October 16th, 2003

H2O

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 22nd, 2003

Barn swallows

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, June 13th, 2003

Envy

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, June 10th, 2003

Reading

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, May 31st, 2003