April 25, 2020 Mojave Preserve, California

High in the 90's and sunny. We took a jeep trip into the Kingston Mountains and the Mojave Preserve.

We mostly visited Joshua tree forests. These are huge. The jeep is pictured with them to show you how big they are. There were lots of wildflowers. 

Joshua trees and wildflowers.  

We stopped at a truck stop on I-15 when we passed over the highway. Cima Mining company it was called. The most people in one place I have seen in a month and a half. Hedgehog cactus and bloom, filaree, antelope bush.  

 Fremont phacelia, tidy tip and a bunch of Fremont phacelia. Wooly daisies, bush alyssum, last years Joshua tree fruit and  golden desert trumpets. 

Wildflowers on the Teutonia peak trail with joshua trees. John and Judy on the Teutonia peak trail. This stand of Joshua trees is the densest concentration of Joshua trees in the world.  

Wooly daisies and Fremont phacelia close up and farther apart. Fremont phacelia and tidy tip daisies. Cool stacked rock in front of Teutonia peak. 

 Cool rocks along the Teutonia peak trail with huge Joshua trees.  Rock cress,  colorful group of flowers, phacelia and a cholla, a tidy tip daisy with fragrant cryptantha. 

Many of the rocks had a bent layer of block embedded in the larger rocks, fuzzy cholla and purple mat. Yuccas with blue flowers.  

wooly daisies and purple mat, desert dandelions and desert stars. Cholla with blue flowers and a carpet of yellow wooly daises around it.  

                                                                      

Desert marigold, mojave prickly pear , pencil cholla and mojave yellow poppy.   The desert had a carpet of tiny yellow wooly daisies.   

The desert had a carpet of tiny yellow wooly daisies.  Tiny yellow wooly daisy carpet and blue sage flowers. 

A bush with desert dandelions , orange desert dandelion and wooly daisies and desert dandelions. Desert marigolds, blue dick, and white desert trumpets.  

This Perry's nolina plant is about 12 feet tall with the blooms. Palmer's pentastamen. 

  Little white  desert trumpet flowers carpeting the desert floor here.  Cool clouds over the valley.  

Colorful flowers, claret cup cactus flowers and huge ball of cactus.  Sunset from Steaks and beer.