Wildly beautiful and gone in a flash, each spring’s superbloom strengthens the backbone of the desert’s ecosystem.
Blooming Beauty
The desert may be inhospitable, but it is far from sterile.
It was dry in the desert. That’s the way it’s supposed to be, of course. But for me as a recent transplant to the Coachella Valley, the land here seemed particularly parched. The ground was rattlesnake colored but soft, like ash. I was about a mile, maybe two, into the slot canyon, on a hike with a group in an