What is blooming in the high desert in and around California City for the Memorial Day weekend? More than you think. Sweet smelling...

It is very easy to tell male and female Hop-sages and Desert Hollies apart in the spring. Hop-sage is leafing and blooming prolificly...

A morning walk in the desert netted two handsome Black-throated Sparrows having a sing off.

Last Tuesday we played hookie for a couple of hours and walked in the desert. Everywhere it was green! The shrubs were leafing out and...

Our desert is green, very green. The rains last night and this morning will keep it that way. What the flowers will do is hard to say. ...

California City? Where on Earth is that? I'm guessing in California? Yes! It is. It is in the heart of the high desert of the West...