This was an old homestead that eventually morphed into a home, store, and gas station on the old road between Kingman, AZ, and points west. https://winfirst.wixsite.com/arizonamininghistory/union-pass We entered through a maze of 4wd roads from Golden Valley only to finds that there is a closed but ...

This is not rated as a macro lens, but for field work hand-held in full sun I am happy with these photos for spine count and flower ID. This happens to be a medium priced Canon crop-sensor lens but other manufactureres make equivalent lenses for their mounts. These photos are cropped but not otherwi...

I went up to the county park to locate and identify Agave Mckelveyana, an Arizona endemic native to a broad portion of the west-central part of the state. I found several other plants of interest while I was there. IMG_2660.jpg This is what appears to be a very mature specimen of O. chlorotica IMG_2...

Super zoom, also called ultra zoom, refers to a lens that goes from wide through normal to telephoto. I bought a used Canon 18 to 135mm IS USM lens as a walk around lens. I love my prime lenses but I have been getting too much camera shake on handheld shots and wanted something in the 85mm range wit...

I saw some from the 1800's and many without markers but the American period in this area started in the 1840s and Chloride came into it's own later than that. There is some open range ranching there now.

Chloride is an old mining town just north of Kingman AZ with some tourist attractions. At about 4000 ft. elevation with the approximately 7000 ft. Cerbat Mountains behind it, it supports some of the higher elevation cacti and succulents. Mostly a land of cholla and Englemann opuntia, I was also happ...

Not your usual cemetery but think of how much they save on lawn maintenance!

More rocks on Union Pass, Arizona, on Hwy 68 just east of Bullhead City. And a beautiful Mohave rattlesnake. Upper elevation is home to nolina, juniper, oak. and yuccas.

Yep, Arizona nomenclature.

I visit here once a year. This time I came in spring when the cactus are flowering and the buzzworms are walking around so I broke out the camera.

Yes, they are the common species there. Once I saw one drinking out of a stream but didn't have a camera with me. That was in the days before cell phone cameras.

Better than nothing. I hear it doesn't work for drinking.It is a bitter gooey mess.

Located near Laughlin, Nevada, this is a accessible area on a graded dirt road. Rocks, cacti, and petroglyphs at Grapevine canyon. It is a nice chunk of typical upper Mohave plant life. And my pal Sleepy who was sunning himself on the road at about 8 am on an April morning to warn up from the chilly...

No, its just a joke. There is a lot of this type of humor in the desert.

I was surprised to see the barrel in an open sandy plain. Their best habitat is on rocky hillsides overlooking a wash. I suspect an abnormally wet year will rot this one out.

Today I had something to do in Kingman and I took advantage of this to swing back by this area on Hwy 66 between there and Sitgreaves Pass. It was midday which is bad for photography but I wanted to get a gps location of the Cottontop. This the only mature easily identifiable specimen of this that I...