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the Digital-Desert A Mojave Desert Virtual Photo Model |
| features - ecology: wildlife - plants - places - region map - map/sat - roads & trails - wilderness - video - aerial - 360 - old west - communities - books - lodging |
| route 66 - ghost towns - gold mines - parks & ... - joshua tree - death valley - mojave preserve - native culture - history - natural features - geology - glossary - comments |
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The Digital-Desert is a photo-model of the California Mojave Desert and the bordering forest mountain regions. Thousands of photos of hundreds of subjects and places display some of the many natural features and man-made points of interest throughout Some of the things you can discover here are -- Ghost towns, dry lakes, sand dunes, roads, gold mines, parks, monuments, springs, rock formations, wild flowers, and aerial photos. All photos on this site are (c)Walter Feller 1996-2003, all rights reserved.
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The golden hours of the morning, just after the sunrise, before the shadows slip under the rocks. A slight breeze, cool and light. The horizon fills with yellow and eats away at the blue cloudless sky. Quail dart from bush to bush in the highlands, kangaroo rats scurry between clumps of black grass further on. Blue-black raven investigate everything. The sun turns the sky white, and seems to drop lower as it begins its pass across the Mojave. The landscape vibrates slightly as sand and rock cast back the heat of the sun. The day slows to near inertia. Occasionally, a lizard on a rock will push himself away from the burning desert floor, a snake will hide in the stingey shade. The mirages grow on the playas, the intensifying heat beats down. There is no breeze, there is no sound. The heart of the day is insanely long and insanely hot. When you are in it there is no diversion, just the blazing sun. The golden hours of the sunset, shadows unscrew themselves and stretch away. Winds whip dust devils crazily over the plain. Cool blue returns to the top of the sky. As the sun sinks it plates the Joshua tree with gold, and paints sand dunes with blue-orange shadows. Indescribable colors reflect from the brush, cactus and pale purple-green flowers. The intense colors of fire pour over the distant horizon -- a flat and dry, yet deeply rich rainbow stripes the end of the day. - Editor - |
| features - ecology: wildlife - plants - places - region map - map/sat - roads & trails - wilderness - video - aerial - 360 - old west - communities - books - lodging |
| route 66 - ghost towns - gold mines - parks & ... - joshua tree - death valley - mojave preserve - native culture - history - natural features - geology - glossary - comments |
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