RHH's photos with the keyword: oasis

In 2018 we were in southern California, Arizona and New Mexico and visited, along with many other place, Anza-borrego Desert State Park in southern California. We spent a couple of days there before going east to the Salton Sea and its wildlife refuges. While in Anza-borrego, we hiked the Borrego Palms trail to an oasis and these photos were taken on that hike.

Photographed in Borrego Palm Canyon in Anza-borrego Desert State Park in southern Califormia on a 2018 trip there.

Taken in Nevada at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, near Point of Rocks where we climbed the cliffs to see the cacti and other plants.

These were just beginning to bloom along the Fortynine Palms trail when we visited Joshua Tree National Park. They were everywhere along the trail but mostly in bud. We were thrilled to see some of the cacti in bloom but would have liked to have seen them a week later.

This is a small barrel cactus. They grow to several feet tall. We found buds and few blooms on them but were a little early for their bloom season.

The buds of this California Barrel Cactus are just visible in the photo. We found a few flowers just beginning to open in Joshua Tree National Park along the Fortynine Palms trail.

These are California Barrel Cactus. They were just coming into bloom when we saw them in Joshua Tree National Park along the Fortynine Palms trail.

I believe these are the flowers of the Palo Verde tree, photographed at Fortynine Palms oasis in Joshua Tree National Park.

This is the area through which we hiked to Fortynine Palms Oasis in Joshua Tree National Park.

The California Fan Palm is native to the deserts of southern California and Baja California. It keeps its dead fronds for a long time and they form a "skirt" around the palm that provides a habitat for birds and other creatures. The "skirt" of dead fronds also leaves them vulnerable to the action of idiots like the man who set many of the palms at this oasis, Fortynine Palms in Joshua Tree National Park, on fire. The skirt of this young palm reaches to the ground.

The California Fan Palm is native to the deserts of southern California and Baja California. It keeps its dead fronds for a long time and they form a "skirt" around the palm that provides a habitat for birds and other creatures. The "skirt" of dead fronds also leaves them vulnerable to the action of idiots like the man who set many of the palms at this oasis, Fortynine Palms in Joshua Tree National Park, on fire. On these older palms the bottom of the "skirt" has disintegrated.

The California Fan Palm is native to the deserts of southern California and Baja California. It keeps its dead fronds for a long time and they form a "skirt" around the palm that provides a habitat for birds and other creatures. The "skirt" of dead fronds also leaves them vulnerable to the action of idiots like the man who set many of the palms at this oasis, Fortynine Palms in Joshua Tree National Park, on fire. The skirt of this young palm reaches to the ground.

The California Fan Palm is native to the deserts of southern California and Baja California. It keeps its dead fronds for a long time and they form a "skirt" around the palm that provides a habitat for birds and other creatures. The "skirt" of dead fronds also leaves them vulnerable to the action of idiots like the man who set many of the palms at this oasis, Fortynine Palms in Joshua Tree National Park, on fire. The skirt of the young palms reaches to the ground.

Fortynine Palms is an oasis in the desert on the north side of Joshua Tree National Park. We hiked to the oasis the first morning of our stay in Joshua Tree and discovered that the oasis is a pleasant stand of palms in a rocky canyon.

These are some of the California Fan Palms at Fortynine Palms Oasis in Joshua Tree National Park. We hiked to the oasis the first morning of our stay in Joshua Tree.

These are some of the California Fan Palms at Fortynine Palms Oasis in Joshua Tree National Park. We hiked to the oasis the first morning of our stay in Joshua Tree.

This is the oasis we hiked to, Fortynine Palms, the first morning of our stay in Joshua Tree National Park. It is on the north side of the park and a separate entrance. The palms are California Fan Palms and some of them are burnt, the result of some idiot setting them on fire a shortly before we were there.

After visiting Death Valley we drove to Redlands and spent the weekend with friends and the next week went on to Joshua Tree National Park and spent several days there. Arriving early in the morning we hiked to Fortynine Palms, an oasis on the north side of the park that is reached by a separate entrance.