March 26-28, 2020 Shoshone, California

Low 60's and sunny with wind.

I went for another bike ride up Dublin Gulch. Got a little farther today and walked a little less. I am getting there. Clouds rolling in, 40% chance of showers tonight. Cool storm clouds over the Kingston mountains. 

The latest master piece. The center is a piece of glass I made. It has black kokopeli sandblasted into the salmon dichroic glass on the bottom, a couple layers of clear, then a layer of blue and purple honey comb, and a couple more clear on top. Then I beveled it and polished it. It has a tiny crack in one of the layers, that is why it is not an expensive pendant. It will be a discount basket because of the crack. The crack is in only one layer so the piece will not crack all the way though. It was too pretty to throw away! No clouds for sunset tonight. But the crescent moon and Venus are really pretty. 

We hiked with Judy D and Susan. We started at 3,000 feet near Salsbury pass and walked down Confidence Wash 10 miles to sea level off the Harry Wade Road. View of Telescope peak from the beginning of the trail. Pebble pincushion flower and plant, chia flower and plant. 

Field of flowers. Crypanthia, filigree, desert dandelion flower and plant.  

Monkey flowers and cluster of monkey flowers, desert 5 spot and desert trumpet leaves at the base. One of the Confidence Mine shafts.  

Gilia, white burro bush, poppies, mining ore and tobacco can. John by Confidence gold Mine ore bin.  

Another mine tunnel.  Judy, John and Susan climbing down a dry fall.  

Susan in a narrow canyon.  Dead tarantula, live front and top view of a large lizard who was nice enough to pose for us. 

Side canyon with flowers, a desert miner's dwelling in the rock.  

Another desert dwelling, these two may have been attached, could not tell. Field of poppies. 

John, Judy and Susan in a field of magenta monkey flowers. Gravel ghost flower and plant, mohavea, and evening primroses.  

Judy, Susan and John at the mouth of Confidence wash, the Confidence hills in the distance. Beaver tail cactus bloom and plant, gilia, crypanthia.  

Bristly langloisia, desert stars, weird dead tree, evening primrose. A rattlesnake near the trail.  

Desert glass with a big M, desert shaggy mane mushrooms, phacelia. Sunset tonight in Shoshone.