6/22/2009 - Joshua

My wife, son and I were traveling through the Mojave desert to the bay area today when I saw for the first time a Joshua Tree. This was an amazing sight to me as I have never seen a tree, which was also a yucca. I was so amazed that I kept telling my wife that we would stop and take a closer look, maybe I would stumble across a log or small piece of the tree to see how dense they are. The opportunity did not arise until the end of the desert just before the pass to Tehachapi when I stopped and visited one of these trees. As I walked around the tree to inspect the bark, which by the way is truly the bark of a tree not a yucca, I thought that it would be amazing to see an old piece of trunk to see what it was constructed of on the inside. As I walked out from underneath the tree and left a light touch on my shoulder as if someone was grabbing me. As I turned around, a small branch cracked loose and landed in my hand. I was able to closely inspect just a piece as if the tree heard by request.