Sun in clouds and haze over the San Ysidro Mountains, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; March 2024.
(blend of four exposures at ISO 64, f/16 — 1/32000s for the disc of the sun, 1/8000s for the areas around the sun, 1/400s for the edge of clouds/mountains, 1/200s for the darker parts of the mountains)
Rafinesquia neomexicana (Desert Chicory or Plumeseed) is an annual herb in the Asteraceae family that grows in the San Diego County desert. This small and isolated cluster is somewhat unusual, the plant has weak stems and grows taller through the support of other plants. Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; March 2024.
Yesterday was a purrfect day to explore Anza Borrego State Park with @wobs. We covered a lot of ground in 12 hours door to door! So many shades of color and warm sunny air to soak in ❤️ The Galleta Meadows sculpture collection, overlook hike, twisty mountain drives, and a gorgeous moonrise into dusk! Julian Pie as our reward for getting back to the beach cat fort!!
My friend took this amazing picture of the Scorpion and Grasshopper metal sculptures at Galleta Meadows in Anza Borrego State Park. I had to reply to my earlier post from a recent trip out there and share-it's so cool! I hear the wild flowers are starting to pop now too ❤️
"Persistence of Fragility" for #ThrowbackThursday, from a hike into Sandstone Canyon at Anza Borrego Desert State Park, in January 2014.
This mesquite came tumbling down from the cliff's edge, and after sorting its limbs, continued to grow at the base of the sandstone walls where it landed.
Folded strata in the ridges of the badlands at Canyon Sin Nombre in soft winter evening light; Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; December 2023.
My friend @jwsmithphoto and I spent a day exploring various areas along the Borrego-Salton-Seaway and these are the Borrego Badlands, seen from Vista del Malpais.
#ThrowbackThursday to 10 years ago and a desert hike into the surreal landscape of Arroyo Tapiado in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, where this Desert Agave managed to hold on in some dirt. Photographed in November 2013.
The upper reaches of Olla Wash, with the Carrizo Badlands and Carrizo Mountain in the background, seen from the Mud Palisades, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California.
Twilight tints the fantastic shapes and forms in the eroding mud hills of the Carrizo Badlands at Arroyo Tapiado, with a view of distant Carrizo Mountain and the Coyote Mountains Wilderness. Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California.
An Emory's Rock Daisy found just enough shelter and moisture to grow in a sandy desert wash with soft standstone; Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; January 2023.
This is a Brittlebush in a slot canyon in the #AnzaBorrego desert of #SanDiego in #SouthernCalifornia and the photo won 1st place in the Anza Borrego Foundation's photo contest that year, which was quite unexpected I must admit!