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Fly-bys July 14, 2016

July 12, 2016

On the heels of my last post, a nature photographer arrived at Palo Verde. She and her guide arrived in the late afternoon and left before lunch the next day. I guess they got some good photos—apparently a laughing falcon just sat on a branch and “posed” for them—but I’m sure they only got to see a fraction of what they could have if they’d stuck around even a bit longer.

I’ve always been confused by the people who come and go in less than a day, although since I talked a friend into driving from San Francisco to Yosemite so that we could spend twelve hours there, I can’t judge. Instead, it makes me realize how little I know Palo Verde even now. I walk the same stretch of road every day in the morning from June to August, but I don’t know what it’s like in the middle of the night or in November. And I’ve barely seen the rest of this half of park, let alone the other half, which I’ve visited exactly once.