Macroscopic landscape textures appear in this desert view from Monument Peak in San Diego's Laguna Mountains. And cloud shadows are always great for a landscape photo, of course. 😊

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#PhotoOfTheDay is of the large eroded basin that we camped inside for Desert Rendezvous 2012. The walls along the side were probably 50 feet high I'd guess... The sharp edges hint that this thing likely flooded at times, and was perhaps created by flood waters, but when we were there any rain was a distant prospect.

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"Ancient Towers" for #SaturdayScenery

This desert slot canyon is in the Carrizo Badlands, some 1.5 hours east of San Diego (and then about an hour of hiking with some scrambling).

Ironically, it is also cooler there today than it is in San Diego. 🥴 That the desert is cooler than the coastal areas and inland areas west of the mountains is not uncommon when we have Santa Ana weather, but it's certainly quite extreme at the moment...

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Spurges are generally pretty weird in my opinion, and the aptly-named Beetle Spurge (Euphorbia eriantha) justly earns a spot in the top part of the list.

Maybe it's alien and should be called UFOrbia? 😅

Photographed in southern Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California.

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Sin Nombre Canyon Wall Detail for #TextureTuesday (late night edition😜)

I've hiked and photographed Canyon Sin Nombre in Anza Borrego Desert State Park many times, and I hope that I will never get tired of it. 😀

Three more here: alex-kunz.com/light-sculpts-th…

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