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.
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