Hobo Jungle

[webenda]

Exactly right, a viewing tower. Pay the operator and he will let you climb to the viewing platform.

From Wikipedia we learn Angel's Flight Funicular traveled a 33 percent grade for 315 feet.

[J. S. Bach]

Wayne,
I just got a headache looking at that.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Maybe just a few too many significant figures in that calculation there, Wayne???

[webenda]

Windows Calculator always amuses me with its antics.

Deleting insignificant figures gives 100 ft... boring.

[E7]

Wayne,

Thanks for adding the pictures, they are great!

Rich

[webenda]

You're welcome Rich, and I thank the Google Bot for being so invasive and finding these things for me.

DIY model of cable car: http://youtu.be/8KqLagrdUJI

[webenda]

Bicycling along in the Sonoran Hobo Jungle this morning some tiny but bright yellow lights shining out of the desert sand caught my eye. It was a rather sad example of Thymophylla pentachaeta -- Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf. They are usually an eight inch hemisphere with dozens of half inch yellow flowers, but this little fellow was only four inches with six scrawney little quarter inch flowers. They bloom all spring, summer and into the fall so, if the county doesn't come along and spray him with weed killer, he might grow into a full size Thymophylla pentachaeta before global warming leaves the Sonoran desert again.

Thymophylla pentachaeta plant


Thymophylla pentachaeta flower

[rogruth]

Wayne

You and I think it is Dirt have fascinating nature photos that I feel sure are not set-ups but just happened in a natural way.

Now tell me this.Did you know the name of that plant or did you need to look it up?

I think knowing where and how to look is as important as actually knowing.

[The Dirt]

Exquisite!

There is so much beauty out there, unseen, unless one slows down and takes a closer look.

[webenda]

Roger,

I never know what they are. When I get home I look them up. Then, after posting, forget what they were. If I ever photograph Thymophylla pentachaeta again, I will have to look it up again. That is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes when I look plants up again and again I find changes, like, "Plant 'X' used to be in the Celastraciae family, but now that the botanist who placed it in that family has died, everyone is agreed it is actually in the Asteraceae family, thus new name."

Unseen indeed Dirt. Even tumble weeds have tiny, tiny flowers--before they take off on their mission to spread seed throughout the Earth.

"And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south..."
Genesis 28:14
King James Version (KJV)

[rogruth]

Wayne,

Makes sense to me.That way you don't have your brain cluttered up with useless information.

I didn't know that about tumbleweeds but that makes sense also.

[webenda]

I left the Hobo Jungle today to bicycle over to weather station KAZTUCSO133. Along the way the Desert Marigolds were blooming. I stopped to take a photo. The flowers of Baileya multiradiata (Desert Marigold) are about two inches across so really stand out along side the roads.

[MYmoo]

Wayne,

Thank you for the pix and please keep them coming.

Got a few from the Mojave and captive cacti from the backyards of the
San Fernando Valley that I'm willing to share, if anyone is interested...
Perhaps you can help me re-identify some of them.???

[MYmoo]

Exquisite!

There is so much beauty out there, unseen, unless one slows down and takes a closer look.

x 2!+++

About this time of the year, you really don't have to go looking for the beauty of the desert,
as it it flat out in your face, that is, unless your face
is stuck in the middle of an 'electronic sanitary napkin').

The thing I miss the most about not being in SoCal is not LaLaLand w/it's bright lights,
but the short drive away from LA to the ANF(Angeles Nat'l Forest), and a little farther to the Mojave Desert.

Sadly, much of the area that several buddys & I used to enjoy/explore
in both the ANF and the Mojave, 20-30 years ago, has been closed off,
(opinion)due to the disruptive/destructive nature of homo sapiens(/opinion).

[rogruth]

Myron,

Here on MTJ there are several that enjoy the photos,photos of many different things,posted by Wayne and The Dirt.
Show us yours.