Over the years a few places have emerged as re-usables like when when from here to there. As unusual as it is for me to camp in the same spot, I'll often take time to explore the area further. Don't you?
This time, just fifteen minutes from the previous night's camp, I wandered into an area rife with diversity: granite outcrops, plants untold, birds, including a red-tail hawk and, after sunset, an owl.
Although this is SO "typical, boring-blog photo," I took it to remind me that this is cat-claw country, a cousin of the African "wait-a-bit." AND, there are several kinds of yucca. In the right foreground you can see a Multi-stalk and in the left middle-ground a Giraffe-esque Yucca. And there, center-stage, trying not to look too proud, is a Scrub Oak. There're some cool stacked rocks out there too.
HOLES!!
Interesting growth on either side of a crack
Closeup of interesting growth on either....
Fossil Labia
You just never know what's around the next bend.
