Joshua Tree National Park, California: A Teardrop Gathering
Made it out to JT once again, this time for a teardrop gathering of roughly eight other fellow teardrops and their owners at Black Rock Canyon Campground.
This is a very nice campground featuring large sites, many which one can pull through for those with RVs. Heated bathrooms contain flush toilets and sinks with running water. No showers. Water to the campground is supplied via well water pumped uphill to a storage tank. Has a bit of a taste to it, although not that unpleasant. Bring your own drinking water if that sounds off-putting. the nearby town of Yucca Valley has rapidly grown in the last decade, home to just about any store you may need in order to acquire services or buy supplies from, including a large Walmart for one stop shopping.
Some tears were bigger than mine; another was certainly smaller, but what we all shared equally was we all love our tears, and agreement we all had a great time.
There wasn't a multitude of individual blooms per se, but there were a goodly number of diverse species present. This beautiful, rayed bloom belongs to the tidy tip family of the genus Layia... (me thinks)
Debbie (pictured) wanted to do a hike, so she volunteered Matt (above) and myself to accompany her. Such a commanding view of the desert floor surrounding us, and of several distant mountain ranges. A 6.6 mile hike from campground and back, I was a happy but sore little puppy on the return to camp.
These two girls found some bones alongside the loop trail, posing a conundrum. We mulled it over extensively amongst ourselves as to what animal this spinal column belonged to. It was eventually identified as deer bones.
One evening towards the end of the gathering, we held a potluck. Me? I made my famous (some would consider infamous) Andy’s Dutch Oven Cherry Cobbler with Vanilla Cream Cheese desert, a self-concocted recipe that gleans several ideas from other cobbler recipes I found. Fortunately, the only thing people succumbed to were second helpings.
Thursday night's potluck video
One doesn't necessarily need a D.O. (Dutch oven) to make it. It can also be made in a greased glass oven pan with the oven temp set to 350°.
OK: so now you ask, "What is a Dutch oven, and how do you use it?" Well, we'll have to wait until the next post to get into that.
This is a very nice campground featuring large sites, many which one can pull through for those with RVs. Heated bathrooms contain flush toilets and sinks with running water. No showers. Water to the campground is supplied via well water pumped uphill to a storage tank. Has a bit of a taste to it, although not that unpleasant. Bring your own drinking water if that sounds off-putting. the nearby town of Yucca Valley has rapidly grown in the last decade, home to just about any store you may need in order to acquire services or buy supplies from, including a large Walmart for one stop shopping.
Some tears were bigger than mine; another was certainly smaller, but what we all shared equally was we all love our tears, and agreement we all had a great time.
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| -Andrew Kliss |
The Road Toad at camp.
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| -Andrew Kliss |
Chillin' at camp in the afternoon.
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| -Andrew Kliss Photography |
One of many wildflower species blooming.
There wasn't a multitude of individual blooms per se, but there were a goodly number of diverse species present. This beautiful, rayed bloom belongs to the tidy tip family of the genus Layia... (me thinks)
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| -a fellow hiker |
At the crest of the moderately demanding Warren Loop Trail with two fellow teardroppers.
Debbie (pictured) wanted to do a hike, so she volunteered Matt (above) and myself to accompany her. Such a commanding view of the desert floor surrounding us, and of several distant mountain ranges. A 6.6 mile hike from campground and back, I was a happy but sore little puppy on the return to camp.
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| -Andrew Kliss |
What the heck is it???
These two girls found some bones alongside the loop trail, posing a conundrum. We mulled it over extensively amongst ourselves as to what animal this spinal column belonged to. It was eventually identified as deer bones.
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| -Andrew Kliss |
One evening towards the end of the gathering, we held a potluck. Me? I made my famous (some would consider infamous) Andy’s Dutch Oven Cherry Cobbler with Vanilla Cream Cheese desert, a self-concocted recipe that gleans several ideas from other cobbler recipes I found. Fortunately, the only thing people succumbed to were second helpings.
Thursday night's potluck video
One doesn't necessarily need a D.O. (Dutch oven) to make it. It can also be made in a greased glass oven pan with the oven temp set to 350°.
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| -Andrew Kliss |
Andy's cherry cobbler. YUM!!!
OK: so now you ask, "What is a Dutch oven, and how do you use it?" Well, we'll have to wait until the next post to get into that.
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