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Letter From the Desert: Joshua Forest Parkway

Letter From the Desert: Joshua Forest Parkway

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Chris Clarke
May 29, 2021
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Letter From the Desert: Joshua Forest Parkway
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The first time I saw them they seemed bright blue. Or perhaps not so much bright blue as bright and blue, that waxy, whitish intermediate between blue and green that the botanists call “glaucous.” It may have been the light. The sun had only just risen, and was playing hide and seek behind the Bradshaw Mountains. That almost certainly affected the color…

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