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Michael Gordon’s Joshua tree photos
One of the people I met this weekend out in Kelso is Michael Gordon, an outstandingly talented desert photographer. Michael’s been capturing images of Joshua trees that put mine to shame. (Though you should still buy my Joshua tree calendar!) Michael does great, evocative work. He told me he’s doing some

Trona-Wildrose

Always take the good camera
Above, the best shot I could get of the critter who tried to gatecrash the Mojave National Preserve’s 15th Birthday Party today at the Kelso Depot. The middle of the tracks was as close as he was willing to get to the couple hundred people at the Depot, despite the existence of hot dogs and cake. The Raven was rapt. I’m a little surprised he didn’t come home with

Significant absence of rabbit mortality noted
I seem to have left a few people hanging as to Thistle’s fate. He’s recovered about 98 percent from the head tilt thing, and about 99 percent from Interstate Five through the Central Valley. All that’s left of either of those traumas is a slightly rakish leer at the world. A couple more weeks of recuperation and he should be ready to rent an office in Pico-Union and