Coyote Crossing

Michael Gordon Show at the Kelso Depot Nov. 5 - Feb. 5

Gordon Postcard

Visit to the Brenda Solar Energy Zone

I went, I took some photos, I came back. I was really only able to explore the southwest corner of the site. I’ll be going back to look at the rest of the tract, especially as we get a chance of fall bloom. The ocotillos I saw were in full leaf,

Chuckwalla Valley

I went out today to see a landscape before it’s completely altered. My camera is on its last legs after only 6 years, but I squeezed a few more washed-out shots from its unwilling frame.

It was in the Chuckwalla Valley, site of the Desert

Panamint Valley 2009

In the new neighborhood

Annette and I took a moment to head a little ways down the road on Monday. This scene is about a five minute drive from the new place.

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Desert Skies: 2011 Calendar

Given that my last photo calendar was a critically acclaimed success, with sales in excess of a dozen copies, I’ve decided to put one together for the coming year, which I am given to understand has been designated “2011.”

I’ve decided to collect

Red Rock Sepia

Red Rock Canyon State Park, California, January 1 2010

I’m sifting through photos to find good candidates for the 2011 Calendar — “Desert Skies” being the theme — and I’m not using this one, because the highlights are just too blown out. But I

Accidental art

Apparently my phone’s camera uses a built-in “Instant Impressionism” filter when you zoom in under low light.

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The Playa Isn’t Lifeless

[A preview of a piece I wrote for the upcoming El Paisano.]

What landscape could be more sterile than a playa? Dry lake beds in desert valleys seem as devoid of life as any place on Earth. Playas are the desert boiled down to its essentials: the

Stars

I’m up in my writers’ group this week, and I’m cranking out Chapter 11* of the Joshua tree book, writing about the night I took this photo. So here it is.

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Sugar pine on Mt. San Jacinto

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Pleuraphis rigida: knitting the desert together

Left: Big galleta fills a wash in the Southern California portion of the Sonoran Desert.

[A preview of a piece I wrote for El Paisano, the newsletter of the Desert Protective Council.]

In April, Desert Protective Council staff and several

Sunrise Rock without the Mojave Cross

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Saturday night on Cima Dome

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Christmas Tree Pass

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In the Shoshone Range

One of my favorite photos of me ever. Taken about a dozen years ago by Sharon Leach as we hiked in the Shoshone Range, central Nevada.

There’s just something about pinyon and juniper that makes me utterly content. It might just be my favorite

Almost five years ago

It was late when I took this, after a day of temperatures in the mid-100s, and the temperature had fallen down into the double digits. Matthew and I watched one thunderstorm after another track past. One of them lit a small fire on the north

A trip to the Yuha Desert

My brief account of business conducted in the Imperial Valley this weekend is up at … (continues)

Cathedral Range, Thanksgiving 2007

Along the Tioga Road, Yosemite National Park

Thanksgiving was always his day. Almost two decades of a house full of people each year, him begging for snacks at the center of it. The first time the holiday rolled around after he died we couldn’t

Hagen Canyon

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