Travel Tuesday - Happy in the Twenty Nine Palms RV Park

 

 

 Today, we thought it would be nice to show you around the Twenty Nine Palms RV Park! We stayed here, in CeCe, while visiting the Joshua Tree NP and Palm Springs. We didn't count the Palm Trees, but we bet there were at least 29 of them!

 

 

 

It wasn't the nicest park we visited, but they did have some pretty sunsets! 

 

 

 We really think this was a great sign! 

Always have Pet Pride and make sure your humans pick up your poop!

 

 

 

 You could tell we were in the desert. There was LOTS of sand and not much grass. Luckily, both of us(Arty and Rosy) will do our business just about anywhere!

 

 

 

 They has a pretty mural on the electrical box. Of course, Mama insisted on a photo.

 

 

 

 

We spent most of our time out and about while we were at this park, but it was a nice place to come back and relax during the evenings!

 

We are joining Sandee at  Comedy Plus for the Happy Tuesday Blog Hop this week!

The Beauty of Joshua Trees

Hi Everybody!! Arty here today, staying hydrated and ready to show and tell you all about the Joshua Trees of Joshua Tree National Park. I did some research on the interwebs and found some fun facts to share with you.

 

 The Joshua Tree, also known as a "Yucca Palm" is an evergreen plant belonging to the Lily family. It grows to be about 15-40 feet high, and up to 3 feet in diameter.

 

 

 

 

 One of the theories on why it is called a "Joshua Tree"  is the Mormons in the 19th century named it becausethey thought it looked like the Profit Joshua raising his hands(branches) and pointing at the sky in the direction of the Promised Land.

 

 

 

The Joshua Tree has both deep and shallow root systems. The deep roots go down 10 to 30 feet to look for hard to find water sources and the shallow roots absorb any rainfall!

 

 

 

 

 In Joshua Tree National Park, it was weird, because in some of the park we hardly saw any Joshua Trees at all. 

In other parts though, they were all over the place! One of the reasons might have been because the trees like to live in elevations from 1300 feet to 5900 feet above sea level, cool huh?!

 

 

 The Joshua Tree blooms from February to April, but only during years that are rainy. 

The Pronuba(or Yucca) Moth is the only moth that can pollinate the Joshua Tree

 

 

 

 The oldest Joshua Tree is thought to be around 1,000 years old. WOW, that's even older than Mama!! The average Joshua tree only lives to be between 100 and 200 years.

 

 

Most of all, we think the Joshua tree is an unique and beautiful tree!!

Thanks for stopping by, we hope you all enjoyed learning a bit more about the Joshua Tree.

 

 

What kind of Nature will you look for this weekend?

 

 

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE to go to our Hoppity Page.

The Big Rocks of Joshua Tree National Park

 Welcome to Joshua Tree National Park! 

 (kinda)

 

Welcome to the beginning of what we think will be more than a few Nature Fridays where we'll be showing you around this beautiful park!

 

This Friday and next Friday we will show you our favorite parts of the park, and then we'll be sprinkling in a few more Joshua Tree posts here and there for awhile.

(Mama took a LOT of pictures!)

 

 

Today, as we drive through the park, we want to show you the GREAT BIG rock formations we explored.

 

 

 

It's funny, we thought Joshua Tree National Park was all desert. It was hot and during the day it got up in the 90s(F). Still too hot for hiking, but not the 120F temperatures Arty experienced when traveling through the Mojave Desert. Plus, is seemed like everywhere we looked, there were rocks and mountains, not desert!

 

 

 

Look at the different kind of rocks we saw...

 

 There were great big rock piles like this all over the park. Daddy was amazed and said it looked like nature had a BIG dump truck full of extra rocks and emptied it in the middle of nowhere.  It must have taken millions of years to form these rock piles...How cool is that?!

 

Then there are these beautiful boulders that seem to be placed in perfect piles randomly around the park....When I asked Daddy about these, he showed me a video that might help explain!

 

For those who want more information, you can read all about it HERE

 

No matter how the boulders were formed, they sure are beautiful!!

 

I especially like this pile, the rock on the bottom left side almost looks like one of those big clams on the bottom of the ocean! 

 

 It seemed like everywhere we looked we found pretty rock formations!

 

 

 

We even found a beautiful formation with a picnic area, where we ate our lunch!

 

 Just look at beautiful boulders, it looks like someone chiseled a pretty design on them, but this is actually part of the formation!!

 

 We had a pawsome time exploring the rock formations in Joshua Tree National Park!!

 

 

 

Join us next Friday when we go in search of the desert!!

 

Wishing you all a pawesome weekend filled with adventure!

 

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE to go to our Hoppity Page.