Views from MORMON MESA above OVERTON, NEVADA

Outside of OVERTON, NEVADA.....near the airport go right or to the East...you can to a gravel road gaining a thousand feet or so...to get a look from above the city....on something called MORMON MESA.

BIG MESA above the village.

Hawks hunt this area, and when I was there, a small brownish Ferruginous Hawk dropped a kangaroo rat...and then circled back to find his meal?


On top of the mesa...go all the way East and avoid the very rocky first road to the south....go East then head south on smooth dirt road....you can drive south five miles on a dirt road bordering the Eastern cliff... to get a view of the tip of the mesa...with the Virgin Mountain Wilderness to the East...


....Muddy River flowing into Lake Mead
....Lake Mead due south....with the sun setting in the west to light up the mountains in a purple tint.


....You'll notice up there on the most southern tip of the five square mile mesa that....to the south are some funky badlands...that light up with shadows at dusk.

NEW SONG LIST for DIPSHITS: part III

"SONGLISTS FOR DIPSHITS" is an idea promoted at my other (first) blog, "Hollow Mantras of Cracked Vision: diamond sutras for the doomed" @ blogspot.com.


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1). "Love Me to Tonight" by HEAD EAST.......great little seventies song that broke out a band that no one had heard of....they went farther....and had something called "Never Been any Reason"....as part of the "Flat as a Pancake" album...this album went gold selling 500, 000 in three years....if A@M would have promoted the band, it would have likely sold more.







2) "Cotton Fields" by Creedence Clearwater Revival....a bit of a swampy acoustic country song with none of the iconic CCR electric guitar licks, but some electric rhythm guitar after some group harmony....more country than rock....a real slice of the the amazing diversity of Fogerty as a singer/songwriter from the Louisana deep south roots he always had somehow? (John was born and raised in California?)....



3) "Rocking all over the world" by solo artist JOHN FOGERTY...from wikipedia: "....John Fogerty began a solo career, originally under the name The Blue Ridge Rangers for his 1973 LP debut. Fogerty played all of the instruments on covers of others' country music hits, such as "Jambalaya" (which was a Top 40 hit). After performing country & western tunes he released a rock & roll single in late 1973, also as The Blue Ridge Rangers. The two John Fogerty penned songs were "You Don't Owe Me" and "Back In The Hills" (Fantasy F-710).

In early 1974 John Fogerty released two rock & roll tunes on a 7"-single. The two songs were the vocal "Comin' Down The Road" b/w the instrumental "Ricochet". His second solo album John Fogerty was released in 1975. Sales were slim and legal problems delayed a followup, though it yielded "Rockin' All Over the World", a top 40 hit for Fogerty in North America. Two years later, in 1977, British boogie rockers Status Quo recorded their version of Rockin' All Over the World, which became a huge hit and made the song world-famous, not least by opening 1985's Live Aid with the song that had become one of their best-known anthems......"




4) "Tumbleweed" by little Miss TONI PRICE from The "Hey" album.....great opening with the violin used so well and perfect on so many of Toni's iconic songs.....a little back up vocals from Scrappy Jud?.....a sad song written by Qwil Owen (Toni's favorite writer)....



5) "Opportunity" by Elivis Costello from the "Get Happy" album......this album was one of the best albums recorded in the 80's....just listen to the whole album...














6) "Stephanie Says" by Velvet Underground on the "V U" album...this is...a fantastic album...and has to be heard to be believed....Lou Reed at his best...an all around perfect album....shocking in it's originality....a must have for those looking for new tunes....also, play "Temptation inside of your heart"....



7) "Daylight" by Toni Price from the "Swim Away" album......shows the range of Toni's trained voice...as she can carry a note as far as it has to go.....a bluesy electric honestly desperate song....worthy of your time to listen to the entire album....


8) "Dance, Dance, Dance" by an old guitar, stud, song writer named Steve Miller....this song will really surprise you if you like to hear the tonal qualities of a pedal steel quitar.... a little country music in your life leads to Miller's funny way of creating memorable sniglets like "The Pompidous of Love" or "...you're my honey pumpkin lover, you're my last desire..."....it has the sound and lyrics of a first class country song...I remember playing this song for an insufferable, red neck, son of a bitch who I had the misfortune of working with "fixing defects in mobile homes" back in my Texas days...and, the dude was gob smacked at how good this song was?



9) "Pray for me" by the ineffable, "The Jayhawks" Tomorrow the Green Grass album............from Minneapolis, Minnesota....if you haven't heard "Tomorrow the Green Grass" album, then....Grooveshark lets you listen free...just figure out how to click on the name of the album, then...to the upper left...click "play all"...if you here this album, you will buy it...guarantee it.



10) "Good Morning Star Shine" from The HAIR broadway musical album.....so many great songs on this album....perfect vocals...and...hey............it was The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius...so....you really should listen to the entire album....listen to "Where do I go?".....

The all knowing JOSHUA TREES of Nevada

I was driving west out of Senator Harry Reid's hometown, Searchlight, NV,....towards Nipton, California...into the wonderful Mojave Desert....and...came across The BLM Joshua tree forest.

Nice free dispursed camping on a lonely road...free for 14 days....very quiet.

This BLM area is called "WEE THUMP"?

Who the hell is "Wee Thump"?

Who was drunk when they named this area?

Why not "Harry's Fuck You Forest?" (Hint: this is outside of Searchlight, NV, which was Harry Reid's hometown...and Reid is a corrupt "fuck you" corrupt sum bitch stooge all the way...doncha know?).

If you carry a camera, you focus better and start to focus on what you see....better....so, I started shooting some photos of some very old, ancient grandfathers of wordly desert wisdom.

When have you ever seen...such a funky tree?

Is this a tree?

Is this something from a 10,000 years ago?
No matter what, when you see your first Joshua Tree Forest....you will be shocked and joyful....as the unusual engineering of this Tree with all the spear like leaves....creates a wonderful surprise that has to be shot with a camera from all the angles.




From wikipedia at "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_tree":


Yucca brevifolia is a plant species belonging to the genus Yucca in the family Agavaceae. It is tree-like in habit, which is reflected in its common names: Joshua tree, Yucca palm, Tree yucca, and Palm tree yucca.[1][2][3]

This monocotyledonous tree is native to southwestern North America in the states of California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada, where it is confined mostly to the Mojave Desert between 400 and 1,800 meters (1,300 and 5,900 ft) elevation.

It thrives in the open grasslands of Queen Valley and Lost Horse Valley in Joshua Tree National Park.

Two subspecies have been described:[4] Yucca brevifolia ssp. jaegeriana (the Jaeger Joshua tree or Jaeger's Joshua tree or pygmae yucca) and Yucca brevifolia ssp. herbertii (Webber's Yucca or Herbert Joshua Tree), though both are sometimes treated as varieties[5][6][7] or forms.[8]

The name Joshua tree was given by a group of Mormon settlers who crossed the Mojave Desert in the mid-19th century. The tree's unique shape reminded them of a Biblical story in which Joshua reaches his hands up to the sky in prayer.
Joshua trees are fast growers for the desert; new seedlings may grow at an average rate of 7.6 cm (3.0 in) per year in their first ten years, then only grow about 3.8 cm (1.5 in) per year thereafter.[11] The trunk of a Joshua tree is made of thousands of small fibers and lacks annual growth rings, making it difficult to determine the tree's age. This tree has a top-heavy branch system, but also has what has been described as a "deep and extensive" root system, with roots possibly reaching up to 11 m (36 ft) away.[1] If it survives the rigors of the desert it can live for hundreds of years with some specimens surviving up to a thousand years. The tallest trees reach about 15 m tall. New plants can grow from seed, but in some populations, new stems grow from underground rhizomes that spread out around the Joshua tree.

The evergreen leaves are dark green, linear, bayonet-shaped, 15–35 cm long and 7–15 mm broad at the base, tapering to a sharp point; they are borne in a dense spiral arrangement at the apex of the stems. The leaf margins are white and serrate.