Palm Desert

A couple of weekends ago, my mom, sister, and I met in Palm Springs for the weekend. None of us had been there before so our weekend included a lot of driving around trying to locate places to eat shop or pamper ourselves. I've decided that Palm Springs is where the happening place used to be and Palm Desert is where things are happening now. It was a mostly sunny weekend, normal for the desert, but very cold and windy since it was following the freeze California had (you know the one that destroyed most of the citrus crops.) On Sunday we took a drive to the Joshua Tree National Park and the pictures that follow this short text included a couple from that day. There is one of my mom standing in front of the valley and one of Joshua Tree s (looks like a cactus with small palms) with desert rocks behind them. The other photos are of a wind farm and a sunset. If you haven't been to this area, it is unique. The mountains just shoot right up out of nowhere.