Oh joy! The long, cold winter promises to come to an end. As Park Ranger Pat Pilcher professes each day on the radio, "Love is in the air at Joshua Tree Nat'l Park."
The Joshua Trees and wildflowers are blooming, and cactus are sporting colorful flowers--even the Teddy Bear Cholla. The Desert Tortoise are waking up, along with the rattlesnakes, and birds are returning to the Park--the Scrub and Pinon Jays, the Scott's Oriole, the Devil Bird, finches, warblers etc., etc.
Everything is relative, of course, but springtime in the desert is a glorious event!
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