Twitter Feed after Joshua Tree

Thoughts from the weekend. Joshua tree is really nice right now. Not too hot, clear skies at night. Too many people.

The more time I spend in te desert, the more I see and appreciate the plenitude and diversity of life. Things are just a more spread out.

Birds, lizards, tadpoles in the muck of oasis, that rattlesnake I came within 2 inches of stepping squarely on. Chipmunks, rats, rabbits.

Trees that grow only in washes because they must have their branches scraped by heavy debris in order to release their seeds.

Joshua trees can only be fertilized by a moth which lays it's eggs in the seedpods of the plant. The moth larvae then eat some if the seeds

I am astounded at the delicate interdependence that everything in that desert exhibits.

Pictures:

Mathematically interesting flower on a rocky hillside.
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